Indeed I do not care about it as much as a man should do.

I am utterly indifferent to the opinion of the world at large, and would never object to the company of a pleasant person because the pleasant person abused me behind my back.

What I value is the pleasantness of the man and not his liking or disliking for myself.

But here the dearest aim of my life is concerned, and I might be guided either this way or that, to my great advantage, by knowing whether I stand well or ill with him." "You have dined three times within the last three months in Manchester Square, and I don't know any other man,--certainly no other young man,--who has had such strong proof of intimacy from my father." "Yes, and I know my advantages.

But I have been there as your friend, not as his." "He doesn't care twopence about my friends.