If this gentleman had in an eminent degree the inde-
finable everything that announces to the looker-on, not
only of Yienna, but from Dan to Beersheba, an Eng
lishman, and to a practised eye can no more be counter-
feited than the flavor of oyster or olive to the cultivated
palate, the two young men accompanying him may be
said to have fairly reeked of Bond Street, St. James,
Kensington Gardens, Pall Mall, the Guards' Club, Tatter-
salFs, Lord's, — ^any and all resorts where English men-
about-town are wont to congregate. Both were tall,
both handsome, but the good looks of Mr. Heathcote
(Sir Eobert's nephew) were of the dark, worn, and dis-
sipated order, while his friend Mr. Hugh Bamsay was a
young Adonis of five-and-twenty, such as is frequently
to be seen in London parks, of average brains and

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barely respectable attainments, — ^a model of manly
beauty, simple and honorable in character, modestly
self-reliant in manner, rosy as any girl, with a girl's
trick of blushing, and a voice which it is no exaggera-
tion to call delicious, — ^the sort of man that always
looks and seems about to be charming, yet really says
little and does less to justify the fervid liking he is apt
to inspire in the breasts of most women, and a good
many men, almost at sight.
