"Ah, my dear Fenwick, I was afraid you would not come,--you are late.

There is the new friend of whom I spoke to you last night; let me now make you acquainted with him." He drew my arm in his, and led me up to the young man, where he stood under the arching flowers, and whom he then introduced to me by the name of Margrave.
Nothing could be more frankly cordial than Mr.Margrave's manner.

In a few minutes I found myself conversing with him familiarly, as if we had been reared in the same home, and sported together in the same playground.

His vein of talk was peculiar, off-hand, careless, shifting from topic to topic with a bright rapidity.
He said that he liked the place; proposed to stay in it some weeks; asked my address, which I gave to him; promised to call soon at an early hour, while my time was yet free from professional visits.

I endeavoured, when I went away, to analyze to myself the fascination which this young stranger so notably exercised over all who approached him; and it seemed to me, ever seeking to find material causes for all moral effects, that it rose from the contagious vitality of that rarest of all rare gifts in highly-civilized circles,--perfect health; that health which is in itself the most exquisite luxury; which, finding happiness in the mere sense of existence, diffuses round it, like an atmosphere, the harmless hilarity of its bright animal being.