He is pleasant company; his gaiety, his quips, his readiness of retort, his courtesy and what not, make him a favourite; and my lord hath in a manner reared him, which goes to explain much.

He is quick yet indolent, good-natured but selfish, generous but counting enjoyment the first thing,--though, to speak truth of him, I have never known him do a dishonourable action.

But, in a word, the star of duty has not yet appeared above his horizon.

Pardon me, Dorothy, if I am severe upon him.

More or less I may misjudge him, but this is how I read him; and if you wonder that I should be able so to divide him, I have but to tell you that I should be unapt indeed if I had not yet learned of my husband to look into the heart of both men and things.' 'But, madam,' Dorothy ventured to say, 'have you not even now told me that from very goodness my lord is easily betrayed ?' 'Well replied, my child! It is true, but only while he has had no reason to mistrust.