text:  "Stingy ill-natured suspicious selfish narrow-minded"--these with scarce a redeeming quality are some of the choice epithets which he strings together as the characteristics of the respectable old governors and dowagers of his day; while the young although as he confesses somewhat too much the creatures of impulse and indebted to it for some of their virtues as well as vices are trustful towards others honest in themselves open-handed and open-hearted warm friends and brave enemies