Where did you meet him?
I have often thought of asking Mr.Vavasour to invite him up for an evening with his microscope.

He seems so superior to the people round him.

It would be a charity, really, Mr.Vavasour." Vavasour kept his eyes fixed on the zoophyte, and said,-- "I shall be only too delighted, if you wish it." "You will wish it yourself a second time," chimed in Campbell, "if you try it once.

Perhaps you know nothing of him but professionally.
Unfortunately for professional men, that too often happens." "Know anything of him--I! I assure you not, save that he attends Mrs.
Vavasour and the children," said Vavasour, looking up at last: but with an expression of anger which astonished both Valencia and Campbell.
Campbell thought that he was too proud to allow rank as a gentleman to a country doctor; and despised him from that moment, though, as it happened, unjustly.

But he answered quietly,-- "I assure you, that whatever some country practitioners may be, the average of them, as far as I have seen, are cleverer men, and even of higher tone than their neighbours; and Thurnall is beyond the average: he is a man of the world,--even too much of one,--and a man of science; and I fairly confess that, what with his wit, his _savoir vivre_, and his genial good temper, I have quite fallen in love with him in a single evening; we began last night on the microscope, and ended on all heaven and earth." "How I should like to make a third!" "My dear Queen Whims would hear a good deal of sober sense, then; at least on one side: but I shall not ask her: for Mr.Thurnall and I have our deep secrets together." So spoke the Major, in the simple wish to exalt Tom in a quarter where he hoped to get him practice; and his "secret" was a mere jest, unnecessary, perhaps, as he thought afterwards, to pass off Tom's want of orthodoxy.
"I was a babbler then," said he to himself the next moment; "how much better to have simply held my tongue!" "Ah; yes; I know men have their secrets, as well as women," said Valencia, for the mere love of saying something: but as she looked at Vavasour, she saw an expression in his face which she had never seen before.