He pursued to excess the point of cleanliness.

With no touch of personal conceit, he excelled the perfumed exquisite in care for minute perfections.

Not in costume; on that score he was indifferent, once the conditions of health fulfilled.

His inherited tone was far from perfect; with rage he looked back upon those insensate years of study, which had weakened him just when he should have been carefully fortifying his constitution.

Only by conflict daily renewed did he keep in the way of safety; a natural indolence had ever to be combated; there was always the fear of relapse, such as had befallen him now and again during his years in Russia; a relapse not alone in physical training, but from the ideal of chastity.