Limpidly truthful. For ability—

All's in the rough yet. His first taste of life

Seems to have somehow gone against the tongue:

He travelled, tried things—came back, tried still more—

He says he 's sick of all. He 's fond of me

After a certain careless-earnest way

I like: the iron 's crude,—no polished steel

Somebody forged before me. I am rich—

That 's not the reason, he 's far richer: no,

Nor is it that he thinks me pretty,—frank