It seemed to him that Eugenia and he had been very well treated; there was something absolutely touching in that combination of paternal liberality and social considerateness which marked Mr.Wentworth's deportment.

It was most uncommonly kind of him, for instance, to have given them a house.

Felix was positively amused at having a house of his own; for the little white cottage among the apple-trees--the chalet, as Madame Munster always called it--was much more sensibly his own than any domiciliary quatrieme, looking upon a court, with the rent overdue.

Felix had spent a good deal of his life in looking into courts, with a perhaps slightly tattered pair of elbows resting upon the ledge of a high-perched window, and the thin smoke of a cigarette rising into an atmosphere in which street-cries died away and the vibration of chimes from ancient belfries became sensible.

He had never known anything so infinitely rural as these New England fields; and he took a great fancy to all their pastoral roughnesses.