But I had already got into conversation with Theodosia Garrow, and, to the gross neglect of my duties as master of the house, and to the scandal of more than one fair lady, so I remained, till a summons more than twice repeated by her father took her away.
It was not that I had fallen in love at first sight, as the phrase is, by any means.

But I at once felt that I had got hold of something of a quite other calibre of intelligence from anything I had been recently accustomed to meet with in those around me, and with a moral nature that was sympathetic to my own.

And I found it very delightful.

It is no doubt true that, had her personal appearance been other than it was, I should not probably have found her conversation equally delightful.

But I am sure that it is equally true that had she been in face, figure, and person all she was, and at the same time stupid, or even not sympathetic, I should not have been equally attracted to her.
She was by no means what would have been recognised by most men as a beautiful girl.