But they especially concerted schemes of blasphemy and dialogues of iniquity for Mr.Snape's particular advantage; and continued daily this disinterested amusement, till at last an idea got abroad among them that Mr.Snape liked it.

Then they changed their tactics and canted through their noses in the manner which they imagined to be peculiar to methodist preachers.
So on the whole, Mr.Snape had an uneasy life of it at the Internal Navigation.
Into all these malpractices Charley Tudor plunged headlong.

And how should it have been otherwise?
How can any youth of nineteen or twenty do other than consort himself with the daily companions of his usual avocations?
Once and again, in one case among ten thousand, a lad may be found formed of such stuff, that he receives neither the good nor the bad impulses of those around him.

But such a one is a _lapsus naturae_.

He has been born without the proper attributes of youth, or at any rate, brought up so as to have got rid of them.
Such, a one, at any rate, Charley Tudor was not.