
Light in manner, but far sharper in feeling than her surroundings give her credit for.
Effi quickly discerns whether someone offers her only manners or genuine attention.
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A quiet man who does not seek politics; precisely for that reason, politics becomes dangerous around him.

Reasonable enough to distrust superstition, and lonely enough to become its target anyway.

A man so devoted to justice that he can become terrible the moment justice itself behaves unjustly.

Someone whose first impulse, even after the catastrophe, is to apologize for the inconvenience.