[Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookPoor Miss Finch CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH 2/27
My nationality leads me to attach great importance to social qualities.
The higher virtues of a man only show themselves occasionally on compulsion, His social qualities come familiarly in contact with us every day of our lives.
I like to be cheerful: I am all for the social qualities. There was one little obstacle in those early days, which set itself up between my sympathies and Nugent. I was thoroughly at a loss to understand the impression which Lucilla had produced on him. The same constraint which had, in such a marked manner, subdued him at his first interview with her, still fettered him in the time when they became better acquainted with one another.
He was never in high spirits in her presence.
Mr.Finch could talk him down without difficulty, if Mr. Finch's daughter happened to be by.
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