But while he succeeded in the form now and then, he failed continually in the substance.
This gentleman was not by any means a fool, unless a kind heart proves folly.

At Cambridge he had done very well, in the early days of the tripos, and was chosen fellow and tutor of Gonville and Caius College.
But tiring of that dull round in his prime, he married, and took to a living; and the living was one of the many upon which a perpetual faster can barely live, unless he can go naked also, and keep naked children.
Now the parsons had not yet discovered the glorious merits of hard fasting, but freely enjoyed, and with gratitude to God, the powers with which He had blessed them.

Happily Dr.Upround had a solid income of his own, and (like a sound mathematician) he took a wife of terms coincident.

So, without being wealthy, they lived very well, and helped their poorer neighbors.
Such a man generally thrives in the thriving of his flock, and does not harry them.

He gives them spiritual food enough to support them without daintiness, and he keeps the proper distinction between the Sunday and the poorer days.