Also the System desired to show him whither young women of the parish lead us, and he was dragged about at nighttime to see the sons and daughters of darkness, after the fashion prescribed to Mr.
Thompson; how they danced and ogled down the high road to perdition.

But from this sight possibly the teacher learnt more than his pupil, since we find him seriously asking his meditative hours, in the Note-book: "Wherefore Wild Oats are only of one gender ?" a question certainly not suggested to him at Raynham; and again--"Whether men might not be attaching too rigid an importance ?"...to a subject with a dotted tail apparently, for he gives it no other in the Note-book.

But, as I apprehend, he had come to plead in behalf of women here, and had deduced something from positive observation.

To Richard the scenes he witnessed were strange wild pictures, likely if anything to have increased his misanthropy, but for his love.
Certain sweet little notes from Lucy sustained the lover during the first two weeks of exile.

They ceased; and now Richard fell into such despondency that his father in alarm had to take measures to hasten their return to Raynham.