Soon after I rose to go.

He held out his hand at parting--an action of greater significance with foreigners than with Englishmen.

As I exchanged a smile with him, I thought the benevolence of his truthful face was better than the intelligence of my own.

Characters of my order experience a balm-like solace in the contact of such souls as animated the honest breast of Victor Vandenhuten.
The next fortnight was a period of many alternations; my existence during its lapse resembled a sky of one of those autumnal nights which are specially haunted by meteors and falling stars.

Hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, descended in glancing showers from zenith to horizon; but all were transient, and darkness followed swift each vanishing apparition.