They could only account for the appointment by the fact that he was the son of a duke.
It was that power which made the Bishop seem a much younger man than Wentworth, who was in reality ten years his junior.

The Bishop was still a learner.

He still moved with vigour mentally.

Wentworth, on the contrary, had arrived--not at any place in particular, but at the spot where he intended to remain.

His ideas, and some of them had been rather good ones at twenty-five, had suffered from their sedentary existence.
They had become rather stout.