His hands, fine and long and slender, tore the trap apart as though it had been paper.
"Poor beast!" he said, "she is very little the worse.

The teeth of the trap had grown blunt, although they were strong enough to hold her." I thought him the very finest gentleman I had ever seen or ever hoped to see, and that is to say a good deal, since it would not be easy to find a finer gentleman than my grandfather.

And I had the portrait of Uncle Luke and my childish memory of him.

And Theobald is as fine and gallant a young gentleman as you would wish to see.
But this stranger was finer than any of them.
Suddenly he looked at me for the first time, and I saw his face change.
Some wave of emotion passed over it, troubling its gay serenity.

His lips trembled.