She seemed to him a frank, affectionate girl, not too well-mannered; and that was all he thought of her.
'I'm afraid Lady Mary does not like me,' he said, after his shot, which gave him time for reflection.
'Oh, Molly is rather _farouche_ in her manners; never would train fine, don't you know.

Her ladyship lectured till she was tired, and now Mary runs wild, and I suppose will be left at grass till six months before her presentation, and then they'll put her on the pillar-reins a bit to give her a better mouth.

Good shot, by Jove!' John Hammond was used to his lordship's style of conversation, and understood his friend at all times.

Maulevrier was not an intellectual companion, and the distance was wide between the two men; but his lordship's gaiety, good-nature, and acuteness made amends for all shortcomings in culture.

And then Mr.Hammond may have been one of those good Conservatives who do not expect very much intellectual power in an hereditary legislator..