If it was puzzling that any man should be sufficiently in love with Althea to suffer over it, it was yet more puzzling that, neglected as he so obviously was by his beloved, he should show no dejection or consciousness of diminution.

He seemed a little aimless, it is true, but not in the least injured; and Helen, as she watched him, found herself liking Mr.Kane.
He had an air, pleasant to her, of finding no one beneath him, and at the same time he seemed as unaware of superiority--unless it were definitely moral or intellectual.

A general indiscriminating goodwill was expressed in his manner towards everybody, and when he did discriminate--which was always on moral issues--his goodwill seemed unperturbed by any amount of reprobation.

He remained blandly humane under the most disconcerting circumstances.

She overtook him one day in a lane holding a drunkard by the shoulder and endeavouring to steer him homeward, while he expounded to him in scientific tones the ill effects of alcohol on the system, and the remarkable results to be attained by steady self-suggestion.