But his animal spirits, and love of bustle, could
not go off thus undistinguished; and so, after coolly attempting
to throw a tutor into the Cam--after shaking all Cambridge from its
propriety by a night's frolic, in which he climbed the sign-posts, and
changed the principal signs, he was rusticated; till the good-humour of
the university returning, he was re-admitted, and enabled to satisfy his
grandfather's will!
After that, he behaved with much gallantry in America; and with good
address in that very disagreeable affair, the contested marriage of his
sister with Mr. Beresford the clergyman.
Indeed, through the intercourse of private life he was very amiable. The
same suavity of speech, courteous attentions, and general good-nature,
he had when a boy, continued and improved: good qualities the more to be
prized, as the less probable, from his bold and eager temper, from the
turbulence of his wishes, and the hurry of his pursuits.
~83~~Jekyl had in part, when a boy, the same happy qualities which
afterwards distinguished him so entirely: in his economy of time, in his
arts of arranging life, and distributing it exactly, between what was
pleasant and what was grave.
With vigorous powers and fair pursuits, the doing one thing at a time is
the mode to do every thing.
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