He is very active and athletic, and is renowned as a great master in the most exciting and perilous of field sports, the spearing of wild boars.

His face has a most characteristic expression of ardour and impetuosity, which makes his countenance very interesting to me.
Birth is a thing that I care nothing about; but his family is one of the oldest and best in England.
During the important years of his life, from twenty to twenty-five, or thereabouts, Trevelyan was in a remote province of India, where his whole time was divided between public business and field sports, and where he seldom saw a European gentleman and never a European lady.

He has no small talk.

His mind is full of schemes of moral and political improvement, and his zeal boils over in his talk.

His topics, even in courtship, are steam navigation, the education of the natives, the equalisation of the sugar duties, the substitution of the Roman for the Arabic alphabet in the Oriental languages.
I saw the feeling growing from the first; for, though I generally pay not the smallest attention to those matters, I had far too deep an interest in Nancy's happiness not to watch her behaviour to everybody who saw much of her.