So it is that Nature makes folks; and some love books and tea, and some like Burgundy and a gallop across country.

Our young fellow's tastes were speedily made visible to his friends in England.
None of them were partial to the Puritan discipline; nor did they like Harry the worse for not being the least of a milksop.

Manners, you see, were looser a hundred years ago; tongues were vastly more free-and-easy; names were named, and things were done, which we should screech now to hear mentioned.

Yes, madam, we are not as our ancestors were.

Ought we not to thank the Fates that have improved our morals so prodigiously, and made us so eminently virtuous?
So, keeping a shrewd keen eye upon people round about him, and fancying, not incorrectly, that his cousins were disposed to pump him, Harry Warrington had thought fit to keep his own counsel regarding his own affairs, and in all games of chance or matters of sport was quite a match for the three gentlemen into whose company he had fallen.