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Herbert also, though not excessively diffident of himself, could not but be sensible of his inferiority when comparing himself with Douglas, preventing his feeling that equality which might otherwise have led him to seek his company; partaking, as he had done, of that general deep interest excited upon beholding the settled melancholy of a countenance exhibiting traces of a lofty soul, of nobleness, and grandeur! Such being the splendid qualities which Herbert, in common with his comrades, ever in his mind associated with Douglas.
