Valentinois was ever secret.

In common with his father--though hardly in so marked a degree, and if we except the case of the scurrilous Letter to Silvio Savelli--he showed a contemptuous indifference to public opinion on the whole which is invested almost with a certain greatness.

At least it is rarely other than with greatness that we find such an indifference associated.

It was not for him to take the world into his confidence in matters with which the world was not concerned.

Let the scandalmongers draw what inferences they pleased.