But our old acquaintanceship was readily and naturally renewed, and his villa near the city became one of the houses I best loved to frequent.

She had at that time, and even well-nigh I take it in those old days at Vienna, abandoned all seeming of conformity to the practices of the faith she was born in.
I used to say of Pulszky that he was like a barrel full to the bung with generous liquor, which flowed in a full stream, stick the spigot in where you would.

He was--is, I am happy to say is the proper tense In his case--a most many-sided man.

His talk on artistic subjects, mainly historical and biographical, was abundant and most amusing.
His antiquarian knowledge was large.

His ethnographical learning, theories, and speculations were always interesting and often most suggestive.