His future life, so far as we can see, was most noticeably affected by two men older than himself, and belonging to the dons--both of them fellows and tutors of St.Anselm's, though on different planes of age.
The first one, Edward Langham, was Robert's tutor, and about seven years older than himself.

He was a man about whom, on entering the college, Robert heard more than the usual crop of stories.

The healthy young English barbarian has an aversion to the intrusion of more manner into life than is absolutely necessary.

Now Langham was overburdened with manner, though it was manner of the deprecating and not of the arrogant order.

Decisions, it seemed, of all sorts were abominable to him.