I found myself among a people who were at once the gentlest of the human race and the most blood-thirsty--the kindest and the most cruel.
And just look at that river--noblest stream that meanders over the thirsty earth!--calmest, gentlest artery that refreshes her weary bosom!
Would he remove the feeling of discomfort she had at being forced to think her own heart's beloved, the kindest and gentlest of men, hadn't been kind and gentle but unjust, by explaining?
Under such an influence all that was gentlest and sweetest in his nature might well develop with rapidity, and every accidental roughness--and in him there was no other--by swift degrees vanish from both speech and manners.