'Hammond is an admirable Crichton, my dear--by-the-by, who was admirable Crichton ?--knows everything, can twist your little head the right way upon any subject.' 'Oh,' thought Mary, 'highly cultivated, is he?
Very proper in a man who was educated on charity to have worked his hardest at the University.' She was not prepared to think very kindly of young men who had been successful in their college career, since poor Maulevrier had made such a dismal failure of his, had been gated and sent down, and ploughed, and had everything ignominious done to him that could be done, which ignominy had involved an expenditure of money that Lady Maulevrier bemoaned and lamented until this day.

Because her brother had not been virtuous, Mary grudged virtuous young men their triumphs and their honours.

Great, raw-boned fellows, who have taken their degrees at Scotch Universities, come to Oxford and Cambridge and sweep the board, Maulevrier had told her, when his own failures demanded explanation.
Perhaps this Mr.Hammond had graduated north of the Tweed, and had come southward to rob the native.

Mary was not any more inclined to be civil to him because he was a linguist.

He had a pleasant manner, frank and easy, a good voice, a cheery laugh.