It 's a very entertaining temper to observe.

I, fortunately, can do so dispassionately, for I 'm the only person in the place he has not quarreled with." "Has he then no society?
Who is Miss Garland, whom you asked about ?" "A young girl staying with his mother, a sort of far-away cousin; a good plain girl, but not a person to delight a sculptor's eye.

Roderick has a goodly share of the old Southern arrogance; he has the aristocratic temperament.

He will have nothing to do with the small towns-people; he says they 're 'ignoble.' He cannot endure his mother's friends--the old ladies and the ministers and the tea-party people; they bore him to death.

So he comes and lounges here and rails at everything and every one." This graceful young scoffer reappeared a couple of evenings later, and confirmed the friendly feeling he had provoked on Rowland's part.