He was not, for instance, permitted to have clothes from a tailor.

Old garments were found in the house, and made up for him in uncouth shapes by a woman in the village.

His father seldom spoke to him, and never said a kind word to him.

By way of keeping him quiet, he was set to copy out Barrow's sermons.

It is difficult to understand how the sternest disciplinarian, being human, could have treated his own motherless boy with such severity.