Of them, Lamar was most aggressive.

I later learned that he was very many-sided and accomplished, the most interesting and lovable of men.

He and Schurz "froze together," as, brought together by Schurz, he and I "froze together." On one side he was a sentimentalist and on the other a philosopher, but on all sides a fighter.
They called him a dreamer.

He sprang from a race of chevaliers and scholars.

Oddly enough, albeit in his moods a recluse, he was a man of the world; a favorite in society; very much at home in European courts, especially in that of England; the friend of Thackeray, at whose house, when in London, he made his abode.