'What sort of looking man is he?'

'Extremely handsome at least I should say so.'

'Then I certainly must hate him. And clever?'

'Well not what you would call clever. He is very clever about fields
and cattle.'

'Come, there is some relief in that.'

'But you must not mistake me. He is clever; and then there's a way
about him of doing everything just as he likes it, which is wonderful.
You feel quite sure that he'll become master of everything.'

'But I do not feel at all sure that I should like him better for that

'But he doesn't meddle in things that he doesn't understand. And then
he is so generous! His spending all that money down there is only done
because he thinks it will make the place pleasanter to papa.'

'Has he got plenty of money?'

'Oh, plenty! At least, I think so. He says that he has.'

'The idea of any man owning that he had got plenty of money! What a
happy mortal! And then to be handsome, and omnipotent, and to
understand cattle and fields! One would strive to emulate him rather
than envy him, had not one learned to acknowledge that it is not given