Then his big face and clerical dress seemed somehow to reassure her, and she began again, though reluctantly.
'He used to say that it was all so changed.

The young fellows he saw when he went back scorned everything he cared for.

Every visit to Oxford was like a stab to him.

It seemed to him as if the place was full of men 'Who only wanted to destroy and break down everything that was sacred to him.' Elsmere reflected that Richard Leyburn must have left Oxford about the beginning of the Liberal reaction, which followed Tractarianism, and in twenty years transformed the University.
'Ah!' he said, smiling gently.

'He should have lived a little longer.
There is another turn of the tide since then.