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There 's something about you , a little flavor of Will , I suppose , that makes one feel -- good luck about you and success ... '' And while he talked and watched her as he talked , she answered , and behind her listening watched and thought about him . She liked the animated eagerness of his manner . His mind seemed to be a remarkably full one ; his knowledge of detailed reality came in just where her own mind was most weakly equipped . Through all he said ran one quality that pleased her -- the quality of a man who feels that things can be done , that one need not wait for the world to push one before one moved . Compared with her father and Mr. Manning and the men in `` fixed '' positions generally that she knew , Ramage , presented by himself , had a fine suggestion of freedom , of power , of deliberate and sustained adventure ... . She was particularly charmed by his theory of friendship . It was really very jolly to talk to a man in this way -- who saw the woman in her and did not treat her as a child .