He died in battle, leaving an only daughter, who married, as you know, a nobleman of high rank.

Her subsequent fate it is now needless to relate.
Petted and pampered from my childhood, I grew up with a profound belief in my own excellences, and a feverish and irritating desire to impress every one who came in my way with the same idea.

There is a sentence in Sir William Temple, which I have often thought of with a painful conviction of its truth: "A restlessness in men's minds to be something they are not, and to have something they have not, is the root of all immorality." [And of all good .-- AUTHOR.] At school, I was confessedly the cleverest boy in my remove; and, what I valued equally as much, I was the best cricketer of the best eleven.

Here, then, you will say my vanity was satisfied,--no such thing! There was a boy who shared my room, and was next me in the school; we were, therefore, always thrown together.

He was a great stupid, lubberly cub, equally ridiculed by the masters and disliked by the boys.