The bold, generous, frank, and affectionate man,--usually a person of
robust health. His constitution keeps him in spirits, and his spirits
in courage and in benevolence. He is obviously not a hard character, my
good young friends, for you to deceive; for he wants suspicion, and all
his good qualities lay him open to you. But beware his anger when he
finds you out! He is a terrible Othello when his nature is once stung.
Mem.--A good sort of character to seduce into illegal practices; makes a
tolerable traitor or a capital smuggler. You yourselves must never
commit any illegal offence,--aren't there cat's-paws for the chestnuts?
As all laws are oppressions (only necessary and often sacred oppressions,
which you need not explain to him), and his character is especially
hostile to oppression, you easily seduce the person we describe into
braving the laws of his country. Yes! the bold, generous, frank, and
affectionate man has only to be born in humble life to be sure of a
halter!



V.

The bold, selfish, close, grasping man will in all probability cheat you,
my dear friends. For such a character makes the master-rogue, the stuff
from which Nature forms a Richard the Third. You had better leave such a
man quite alone. He is bad even to serve. He breaks up his tools when
he has done with them. No, you can do nothing with him, my good young
men!