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I La Theoretical Reverence Homage Beauty Elegance Gallantry

Back I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.
Front Experimentaba una admiración teórica por la belleza, la fascinación y la elegancia, pero reconocía las escasas probabilidades de que un hombre que reuniese tales dotes me mirase con agrado sin ulterior mal pensamiento.

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