In that "noble building" he does pretty much as he likes, and eats very much what he can.

The "full staff of professors and masters" interfere very little with his liberty, and the "attention to morals" is never inconveniently obtruded.

He goes home pale for the holidays and comes back paler each term.

He scuffles about now and then in the play-ground and calls it athletics.

He gets up Caesar with a crib and Todhunter with a key, and calls it classics and mathematics.