But no such chance is afforded him.

To eschew the bad is certainly possible for him; but as to the good, he must wait till he be chosen.

This it is, that is too much for him.

He cannot live without society, and so he falls.
Society, an ample allowance of society, this is the first requisite which a mother should seek in sending her son to live alone in London; balls, routs, picnics, parties; women, pretty, well-dressed, witty, easy-mannered; good pictures, elegant drawing rooms, well got-up books, Majolica and Dresden china--these are the truest guards to protect a youth from dissipation and immorality.
These are the books, the arts, the academes That show, contain, and nourish all the world, if only a youth could have them at his disposal.

Some of these things, though by no means all, Charley Tudor encountered at the Woodwards..