to make him popular that he was sometimes a little by this apparent for a meditative interest in learning how human miseries are wrought � as in him as another sort of genius in the poet who writes a queen at nineteen � was so with that it easily passed for enough in many of our neighbors lives there is much not only of error and lapse but of a certain exquisite goodness which can never be written or even spoken � only divined by each of us according to the inward of our own privacy the impression he made at cambridge to his position at every one interested in him agreed that he might have taken a high place if his motives had been of a more pushing sort and if he had not instead of regarding studies as instruments of success himself with the notion that they were to feed motive and opinion � a notion which set him methods and arguing against his freight and harness when he should have been using all his might to pull in the beginning his work at the university had a new zest for him indifferent to the of the classical he applied himself vigorously to for which he had shown an early under mr and he had the delight of feeling his in a comparative book il � streams if fresh exercise of tliat delight and the favorable opinion of his determined him to try for a in the of his second year ho wished to gratify sir by some achievement and the of the higher the growing fascination inherent in all thinking which demands intensity was making him a more exclusive than he had been before but here came the old check which had been growing with his growth lie found the inward bent toward comprehension and more and more from the track marked out by the standards of examination he felt a discontent with the wearing and strain of a demand for excessive and dexterity without any insight into the principles which form the vital connections of knowledge under occurred fifteen years ago when the perfection of our university methods was not yet in hours when his dissatisfaction was strong upon him ho reproached himself for having been attracted by the conventional advantage of belonging to an english university and was tempted toward the project of asking sir to let him quit cambridge and pursue a more independent line of study abroad the of tliis had been already stirring in his boyish love of universal history which made him want to be at home in foreign countries and follow in imagination the students of the middle ages he longed now to have the sort of to life which would not shape him too definitely and rob him of tlie choice that might come from a free one sees that s were likely to be on the side of hesitation and this tendency was encouraged by his position there was no need for him to get an immediate income or to fit himself in haste for a profession and his sensibility to the half known facts of his made him an excuse for lingering longer than others in a state of social other men he inwardly said had a more definite place and duties but the project which flattered his inclination might not have gone beyond the stage of brooding if tain circumstances had not quickened it into action the circumstances arose out of an enthusiastic friendship d which extended into his after life of the same with and occupying small rooms close to his was a who had come as an from christ s hospital and had enough for a charles lamb only to look at his pinched features and hair hanging over his collar reminded one of pale quaint heads by early painters and when this faint was lighted up by a joke there came sudden about the mouth and eyes which might have been by the soul of an aged his father an of some distinction had been dead eleven years and his mother had three girls to and maintain on a meagre � he had been after � felt himself the pillar or rather the knotted and twisted trunk round which these feeble climbing plants must cling there was no want of ability or of honest well meaning affection to make the tn the ease and quickness with which he studied might serve him to win at cambridge as he had done among the blue coats in spite of the only danger was that the tendencies in him might be timed and that his good in might be by some act which was not due to habit but to capricious scattered impulses ho could not be to have any one bad habit yet at longer or shorter intervals he had fits of and did things that would have made the worst habits in his right mind however was a creature and in he had happened to find a friend who was likely to stand by him with the more constancy from compassion for these brief that might bring a long repentance indeed shared s rooms nearly as much as ho used his own to he poured himself out on his studies his affairs his hopes the poverty of his home and his love for the creatures there the of his fingers to draw and his determination to fight it away for the sake of getting some sort of that he might divide with his mother and the girls he wanted no confidence in return but seemed to take as an who needed nothing � an in friendship which is common enough with natures was content and gave all the inter book xl � est ho claimed getting i t last a looking after him in his moments and by delicate devices not only to make up for his friend lack of pence but to save 