His speeches seemed, however, like the rantings of an actor, to be rehearsed by rote or for the sake of exercise.

He was totally careless of his person and health, and, by repeated negligences of this kind, at last contracted a fever of which he speedily died.

The name which he assumed was Clavering.
He gave no distinct account of his family, but stated, in loose terms, that they were residents in England, high-born and wealthy.

That they had denied him the woman whom he loved and banished him to America, under penalty of death if he should dare to return, and that they had refused him all means of subsistence in a foreign land.

He predicted, in his wild and declamatory way, his own death.