To help a friend he had once consented to be Pro-proctor.

He resigned in a month, and none of his acquaintances ever afterward dared to allude to the experience.

If you could have got at his inmost mind, it was affirmed, the persons most obnoxious there would have been found to be the scout, who intrusively asked him every morning what he would have for breakfast, and the college cook, who, till such a course was strictly forbidden him, mounted to his room at half-past nine to inquire whether he would "dine in." Being a scholar of considerable eminence, it pleased him to assume on all questions an exasperating degree of ignorance; and the wags of the college averred that when asked if it rained, or if collections took place on such and such a day, it was pain and grief to him to have to affirm positively, without qualifications, that so it was.
Such a man was not very likely, one would have thought, to captivate an ardent, impulsive boy like Elsmere.

Edward Langham, however, notwithstanding undergraduate tales, was a very remarkable person.

In the first place, he was possessed of exceptional personal beauty.