If for no other reason than that his stepfather was a royalist, he would have been a republican.
Nothing is more uncertain than political friendship, a friendship selfish and treacherous.

It assumes all things, absorbs all things, expects all things, and disappoints in everything.

A merely political friend can never be trusted.

Robert was seventeen or eighteen years of age, when he became acquainted with Giles Peram, a young man two or three years his senior.

Peram was a caricature on nature.