hatever one’s experience of this gl

hatever one’s experience of this globe and its inhabitants, however impartial one’s judgement and varied one’s acquaintance, it would be no surprise if the most enchanting person one had yet encountered, someone whose tastes in love and literature, religion and recreation, dirty jokes and household hygiene all lay beyond reproach, whose setbacks were capable of eliciting inexhaustible concern and pity, and whose view of humanity seemed neither cruel nor naïve -- one might without presumption suggest this person to be none other than oneself.