When I could obtain a mount neither for love nor on credit, I went after the harriers on foot.

The result, as touching my health and growth, was all that could be desired.
As touching my studies, however, it was less satisfactory.

I was spun twice, both in my anatomy and physiology.

Miss Ophelia, though sorely grieved, was very indulgent, and had she lived, I am afraid that I should never have got my diploma.

But when I was twenty-one and she seventy-five, my dear aunt died, leaving me all her property (which made an income of about four hundred a year), with the proviso that unless, within three years of her death, I obtained the double qualification, the whole of her estate was to pass to Guy's Hospital.