text:  Amongst these his gentlemanly manners and kindness of heart made him beloved while his talents gave him a kind of influence; and though he must have felt occasionally that he was not altogether in his right place and that besides his popular qualities he had higher tastes and endowments with which the majority of his companions could hardly sympathise he was too light-hearted to philosophise much on the subject and contented himself with enjoying his popularity occasionally falling back upon his own resources and keeping up in a desultory kind of way his acquaintance with scholarship and literature