He wanted to have Gabriel get up in the cold mornings and bring him his breakfast in bed.

He wanted to chain Gabriel to the car of his triumphal progress through school-life.

He wanted to debase and degrade him altogether.
"What is it," Abel exclaimed one day to the large boys assembled in solemn conclave in the school-room, "that takes all the boorishness and brutishness out of the English character?
What is it that prevents the Britishers from being servile and obsequious--traits, I tell you, boys, unknown in England--but this splendid system of fagging?
Did you ever hear of an insolent Englishman, a despotic Englishman, a surly Englishman, a selfish Englishman, an obstinate Englishman, a domineering Englishman, a dogmatic Englishman?
Never, boys, never.

These things are all taken out of them by fagging.

It stands to reason they should be.