Chapter 36

           "’Tisstrangetoseethehumorsofthesemen,Thesegreataspiringspirits,thatshouldbewise:........ForbeingthenatureofgreatspiritstoloveTobewheretheymaybemosteminent;They,ratingofthemselvessofarreaboveUsinconceit,withwhomtheydofrequent,ImaginehowwewonderandesteemeAllthattheydoorsay;whichmakesthemstriveTomakeouradmirationmoreextreme,Whichtheysupposetheycannot,’lesstheygiveNoticeoftheirextremeandhighestthoughts.—DANIEL:TragedyofPhilotas.

           Mr.Vincywenthomefromthereadingofthewillwithhispointofviewconsiderablychangedinrelationtomanysubjects.Hewasanopen-mindedman,butgiventoindirectmodesofexpressinghimself:whenhewasdisappointedinamarketforhissilkbraids,hesworeatthegroom;whenhisbrother-in-lawBulstrodehadvexedhim,hemadecuttingremarksonMethodism;anditwasnowapparentthatheregardedFred’sidlenesswithasuddenincreaseofseverity,byhisthrowinganembroideredcapoutofthesmoking-roomontothehall-floor.

           "Well,sir,"heobserved,whenthatyounggentlemanwasmovingofftobed,"Ihopeyou’vemadeupyourmindnowtogoupnexttermandpassyourexamination.I’vetakenmyresolution,soIadviseyoutolosenotimeintakingyours."

           Fredmadenoanswer:hewastooutterlydepressed.