His boldest conception did not go beyond the writing of a letter in which he would renounce her, and removing himself altogether from that quarter of the town in which Burton Crescent was situated.

But then about his clothes, and that debt of his?
And what if Amelia should in the meantime come down to Guestwick and claim him?
Could he in his mother's presence declare that she had no right to make such claim?
The difficulties, in truth, were not very great, but they were too heavy for that poor young clerk from the Income-tax Office.
You will declare that he must have been a fool and a coward.

Yet he could read and understand Shakespeare.

He knew much,--by far too much,--of Byron's poetry by heart.

He was a deep critic, often writing down his criticisms in a lengthy journal which he kept.