How weak he was; — how inefficient; how unable to seize glorious opportunities; how swathed and swaddled by scruples and prejudices; — how unlike her own countrymen in quickness of apprehension and readiness of action! But yet she loved him for his very faults, telling herself that there was something sweeter in his English manners than in all the smart intelligence of her own land.
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