She and her mother absolutely idolise him, and I do not wonder at it.
His conversation is very much like his countenance and his voice, of immense variety; sometimes plain and unpretending even to flatness; sometimes whimsically brilliant and rhetorical almost beyond the license of private discourse.

He has many interesting anecdotes, and tells them very well.

He is a shrewd observer; and so fastidious that I am not surprised at the awe in which many people seem to stand when in his company.

Though not altogether free from affectation himself, he has a peculiar loathing for it in other people, and a great talent for discovering and exposing it.

He has a particular contempt, in which I most heartily concur with him, for the fadaises of bluestocking literature, for the mutual flatteries of coteries, the handing about of vers de societe, the albums, the conversaziones, and all the other nauseous trickeries of the Sewards, Hayleys, and Sothebys.