If my mother, who was an intellectual and able woman, had lived, it's hard to tell what I should have become; for steered aright, given true ideas of what life should mean to a man, I might have become ambitious and forged ahead in one direction or another.

But there it was, she died when I was ten, and there was no one to mould me.

At Eton, at Oxford-well, they are not preparatory schools to the business of life.

And when at twenty-four I inherited the fortune my mother left me, I had only one idea: to live the life of a sporting gentleman.

I had a name as a cricketer--" "Ah--I remember, Crozier of Lammis!" interjected the Young Doctor involuntarily.