Was this an act of such transcendent disinterestedness as to be incredible?
My garb was meaner than that of my companion, but my intellectual accomplishments were at least upon a level with his.

Why should he be supposed to be insensible to my claims upon his kindness?
I was a youth destitute of experience, money, and friends; but I was not devoid of all mental and personal endowments.

That my merit should be discovered, even on such slender intercourse, had surely nothing in it that shocked belief.
While I was thus deliberating, my new friend was earnest in his solicitations for my company.

He remarked my hesitation, but ascribed it to a wrong cause.

"Come," said he, "I can guess your objections and can obviate them.