17/19 He has elegant tastes--cares for literature, for art, for science, for charming young ladies. The most elegant is his taste for the new views. It affords him a great deal of pleasure--more perhaps than anything else, except the young ladies. His old house over there--what does he call it, Lockleigh ?--is very attractive; but I don't think it's as pleasant as this. That doesn't matter, however--he has so many others. |