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I, indeed, talked comparatively little, but I heard him talk with

relish It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to

a limpses of its scenes and ways

(I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as

derived their interest froe novelty by which they were characterised); and I

had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in

i him in

thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or

troubled by one noxious allusion

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the

friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, hich he treated me,

drew me to him I felt at times as if he were my relation rather

than my master: yet he was imperious sometimes still; but I did not

ratified did I

become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine

after kindred: e; the