Happily for me, my father consulted a wise friend, before he sent me to Cambridge.

I was entered at one of the smaller colleges; and I fell, at starting, among the right set of men.
Good examples were all round me.

We formed a little club of steady students; our pleasures were innocent; we were too proud and too poor to get into debt.

I look back on my career at Cambridge, as I look back on my career at school, and wonder what has become of my better self." III "During my last year at Cambridge, my father died.
"The profession which he had intended that I should follow was the Bar.

I believed myself to be quite unfit for the sort of training imperatively required by the Law; and my mother agreed with me.