![]() ![]() Ralph admires his father but has no aptitude for banking himself. (The implication is that this independence of mind is an American quality.) He did well at Oxford, but he was prevented from having a successful career in England because he was American. Ralph is therefore well accustomed to English manners, and appeared English from the outside, but his mind is described as enjoying independence. Ralph therefore spent many terms at an American school, has a degree from an American university, but he also spent three years at Oxford. Yet he also had no great desire to render himself less American. Daniel Touchett, is described as having adopted England as his country because he found it sane and accommodating. ![]() His mother is described as being more fatherly, her father, as more motherly. At the opening of Chapter 5, Ralph Touchett knocks on his mother's door eagerly. ![]()
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