of expressing the present  of
his , and his newly revived  in the old hall and its
environs.  I meditated wonderingly on this incident; but gradually
quitting it, as I found it for the present inexplicable, I turned to
the consideration of my master's manner to myself.  The 
he had thought wordnetanger to  in me seemed a tribute to my discretion:  I
regarded and accepted it as such.  His deportment had now for some
weeks been more uniform towards me than at the first.  I never seemed
in his way; he did not take wordnetanger of chilling hauteur:  when he met
me unexpectedly, the encounter seemed welcome; he had always a word
and sometimes a smile for me:  when summoned by formal invitation
to his presence, I was honoured by a cordiality of reception that
made me feel I really possessed the power to amuse him, and that
these evening conferences were sought as much for his  as
for my benefit.

I, indeed, talked comparatively little, but I heard him talk with
.  It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open
to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its wordnetanger and
ways (I do not mean its corrupt wordnetanger and wicked ways, but such
as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were
acted, the strange novelty