I mean to be, that's certain.

There's nothing I hate like vulgarity.

That's why I can't stand Roper.

When he beat me in mathematics last midsummer, I felt so ashamed I could hardly bear myself.

I'm working like a nigger at algebra and Euclid this half, just because I think it would almost kill me to be beaten again by a low cad.' This was perhaps the first time that Godwin found expression for the prejudice which affected all his thoughts and feelings.