"No," he replied. "Such an unworldly, uncalculating, gossamer creature is a relief to him and an amusement. But as to advising or encouraging or occupying a serious station towards anybody or anything, it is simply not to be thought of in such a child as Skimpole."

"Such an unworldly, uncalculating, gossamer creature is a relief, an amusement to Richard. But as to advising or encouraging anybody, it is simply not to be thought of in such a child as Skimpole."
