A fire for acquisition possessed me, and soon an ungovernable scorn for English systems of teaching--sound enough for the producing of gentlemen, and perhaps of merchants; but gentlemen rather bare of graces, and merchants not too scientific in finance.

Mr.
Peterborough conducted the argument against me until my stout display of facts, or it may have been my insolence, combined with the ponderous pressure of the atmosphere upon one who was not imbibing a counteracting force, drove him on a tour among German cathedrals.
Letters from Riversley informed me that my proceedings were approved, though the squire wanted me near him.

We offered entertainments to the students on a vast scale.

The local newspaper spoke of my father as the great Lord Roy.

So it happened that the margravine at Sarkeld heard of us.