nd annoyance.

"When I read your letter, Major, my hair stood on end, and if my leave
had not been up I should have canceled my passage and come by the next
ship; and indeed when I went down to see her I had still by no means
made up my mind as to whether I would not take my chance of getting out
in time by the next vessel. However, I liked her appearance, and, as
I have said, it turned out excellently, and I should not mind making
another voyage in charge of her."

CHAPTER V.

Two days after his arrival at Cawnpore Dr. Wade moved into quarters of
his own.

"I like Dr. Wade very much indeed, you know, uncle, still I am glad to
have you all to myself and to settle down into regular ways."

"Yes, we have got to learn to know each other, Isobel."

"Do you think so, uncle? Why, it seems to me that I know all about you,
just the same as if we had always been together, and I am sure I always
told you all about myself, even when I was bad at school and got into
scrapes, because you said particularly that you liked me to tell you
everything, and did not want to know only the good side of me."

"Yes, that is so, my dear, and no doubt I have a fair idea as to what
are your strong points and what are your weak ones, but neither one or
the other affect greatly a person's ordinary everyday character. It
is the little things, the trifles, the way of talking, the way of
listening, the amount of sympathy shown, and so on, that make a man
or woman popular. People do not ask whether he or she may be morally
sleeping volcanoes, who, if fairly roused, might slay a rival or burn
a city; they simply look at the surface--is a man or a woman pleasant,
agreeable, easily pleased, ready to take a share in making things go,
to show a certain amount of sympathy in other people's pleasures or
troubles--in fact, to form a pleasant unit of the society of a station?

"So in the house you might be the most angelic temper in the world, but
if you wore creaky boots, had a habit of slamming doors, little tricks
of giggling or fidgeting with your hands or feet, you would be an
unpleasant companion, for you would be constantly irritating one in
small matters. Of course, it is just the same thing with your opinion of
me. You have an idea that I am a good enough sort of fellow, because I
have done my best to enable you to carry out your plans and wishes, but
that has nothing to do at all with my character as a man to live with.
Till we saw each