The things we do!

Our friend, if the truth must be told regarding him, though one of the
most frank, generous, and kind-hearted persons, is of a nature somewhat
haughty and imperious, and very likely the course of life which he now
led and the society which he was compelled to keep, served to increase
some original defects in his character, and to fortify a certain
disposition to think well of himself, with which his enemies not unjustly
reproach him. He has been known very pathetically to lament that he was
withdrawn from school too early, where a couple of years' further course
of thrashings from his tyrant, old Hodge, he avers, would have done him
good. He laments that he was not sent to college, where if a young man
receives no other discipline, at least he acquires that of meeting with
his equals in society and of assuredly finding his betters: whereas in
poor Mr. Gandish's studio of art, our young gentleman scarcely found a
comrade that was not in one way or other his flatterer, his inferior, his
honest or dishonest admirer.


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