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• The circumstances of his case were so peculiar that he could not apply to them the ready-made rules which acted well enough in ordinary affairs, and he was forced to think for himself.
• They could not think a man profound whose interests were so diverse.
• Enthusiasm was ill-bred. Enthusiasm was ungentlemanly.
• Mr. Carey had no great ease in expressing himself. When the news came that his sister-in-law was dying, he set off at once for London, but on the way thought of nothing but the disturbance in his life that would be caused if her death forced him to undertake the care of her son. He was well over fifty, and his wife, to whom he had been married for ...
• unable to adapt her expenditure to her altered circumstances.