XXX MEMOIR. 



gestions and parts. The gentleman is, to the various pow- 

 ers and cultivations of the man, what the tone is to the 

 picture, which lies in no single color, but in the harmony 

 of the whole. The gentleman is the final bloom of the 

 man. But no man could be a gentleman without original 

 nobleness of feeling and genuineness of character. Gentle- 

 ness was developed from that by experience and study, as 

 the delicate tinge upon precious fruits, by propitious circum- 

 stances and healthy growth. 



In this feeling, which was a constituent of his charac- 

 ter, lay the secret of the appearance of hauteur that was 

 so often remarked in him, to which Miss Bremer al- 

 ludes, and which all his friends perceived, more or less dis- 

 tinctly. Its origin was, doubtless, twofold. It sprang 

 first from his exquisite mental organization, which instinct- 

 ively shrunk from whatever was coarse or crude, and which 

 made his artistic taste so true and fine. That easily ex- 

 tended itself to demand the finest results of men, as of 

 trees, and fruits, and flowers ; and then committed the 

 natural error of often accepting the appearance of this re- 

 sult, where the fact was wanting. Hence he had a natural 

 fondness for the highest circles of society- a fondness as 

 deeply founded as his love of the best possible fruits. His 

 social tendency was constantly toward those to whom great 

 wealth had given opportunity of that ameliorating culture, 

 of surrounding beautiful homes with beautiful grounds, 

 and filling them with refined and beautiful persons, which 

 is the happy fortune of few. Hence, also, the fact that his 

 introduction to Mr. Murray was a remembered event, be- 

 cause the mind of the boy instantly recognized that society 

 to which, by affinity, he belonged ; and hence, also, that 

 admiration of the character and life of the English gentle- 

 man, which was life-long with him, and which made him, 



