This came partly of pride in his father and mother, partly of inborn dignity, and partly of religion.
To him the story of our Lord was the reality it is, and he rejoiced to know himself so nearly on the same social level of birth as the Master of his life and aspiration.

It was Donal's one ambition--to give the high passion a low name--to be free with the freedom which was his natural inheritance, and which is to be gained only by obedience to the words of the Master.

From the face of this aspiration fled every kind of pretence as from the light flies the darkness.

Hence he was entirely and thoroughly a gentleman.

What if his clothes were not even of the next to the newest cut! What if he had not been used to what is called society! He was far above such things.