In Newman's intention what did the figure symbolize?
Did it mean that he was going to try to be as "high-toned" as the monk looked at first, but that he feared he should succeed no better than the friar, on a closer inspection, proved to have done?
It is not supposable that he intended a satire upon Babcock's own asceticism, for this would have been a truly cynical stroke.

He made his late companion, at any rate, a very valuable little present.
Newman, on leaving Venice, went through the Tyrol to Vienna, and then returned westward, through Southern Germany.

The autumn found him at Baden-Baden, where he spent several weeks.

The place was charming, and he was in no hurry to depart; besides, he was looking about him and deciding what to do for the winter.

His summer had been very full, and he sat under the great trees beside the miniature river that trickles past the Baden flower-beds, he slowly rummaged it over.