Daphnis became to him the embodiment, the concrete image, of eternal youthhood, of adolescence in the abstract, the attribute of an idealised humanity.

To lead the pure Daphnis life of simplicity, stainlessness, communion with beautiful souls, was to lead the highest life.

To find one's bliss in sunshine, flowers, and the winds of heaven--in both the physical and moral spheres--was to find the highest bliss.

Why should not he, Austin Trevor, cripple as he was, so live the Daphnis life as to be himself a Daphnis?
No wonder a boy like this was voted unsociable.

No wonder Sandy and Jock despised him as a muff, and the young ladies deplored his unaccountably elusive ways.