'Twill be strange, thought I, if his favourite volume do not show some marks of my friend's character.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts, and though he would not have given me the reading of these books, if he had thought them capable of unveiling more of his concerns than he wished, yet possibly my ingenuity may go one step farther than he dreams of.

You shall judge whether I was right in my conjectures..