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"This St John, then, is your cousin?"

"Yes"

"You have spoken of hiood ood man Does that mean a respectable well-conducted man of

fifty? Or what does it mean?"

"St John was only twenty-nine, sir"

"'Jeune encore,' as the French say Is he a person of low stature,

phlegoodness consists rather in

his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue"

"He is untiringly active Great and exalted deeds are what he lives

to perform"

"But his brain? That is probably rather soft? Heyour shoulders to hear him talk?"

"He talks little, sir: what he does say is ever to the point His

brain is first-rate, I should think not iorous"

"Is he an able hly educated man?"

"St John is an accomplished and profound scholar"

"His ish and

parsonic?"