I have nothing to say against his manners or his language; his address is excellent, and he is no booby--far from it.
With all this there is something about him that shocks me--I scarcely know what--a mingling of two natures that I cannot explain.

He might be said to resemble, according to circumstances, a lion or a fox; I believe that the fox-nature predominates, that the lion is supplementary.

I simply give you my impressions, which I am perfectly willing to be induced to change.

I am inclined to fancy that M.Larinski passed his first youth amid vulgar surroundings, that later he came into contact with good society, and being intelligent soon shook off the force of early influences; but there still remain some traces of these.

While he was in my _salon_ his eyes twice took an inventory of its contents, and that with a rapidity which would have done credit to a practised appraiser.