He possessed a reliant simplicity that put him at once close to those he met.

Of these, by his manner, he asked all: confidence without reserve, troubles, doubts, distresses, material or otherwise.

And this manner of his prevailed.

The hearts of his people opened to him as freely as his own opened to receive them.

He was a good man and, partly by reason of this ingenuous, unsuspicious mind, an invaluable instrument of grace.
When he had talked to Miss Caroline through the second julep,--digressing only to marvel briefly again that the properties of mint should so long have been Nature's own secret in Little Arcady,--telling her his joys, his griefs, his interests, which were but the joys and griefs and interests of his people, he wrought a spell upon her so that she in turn became confiding.
She was an Episcopalian.