He was quick to observe the change, and in private raved and raged at it.

He even made the mistake of showing his pique to her, upon which she became still more retiring and conventional.

Then be bemoaned himself in the sleepless watches of the night, and confided to his bed-post that in his belief such a case had never occurred before in the history of the world, and never by any chance could or would happen again.

He also broke out into an eruption of bad verses, which were found by his landlady during her daily examination of his private papers, and were read aloud to a select audience of neighbours, who were all much impressed, and cackled sympathetically among themselves.
By degrees Tom developed other symptoms of the distemper which had come upon him so suddenly.

He had always been remarkable for a certain towsiness of appearance and carelessness of dress which harmonized with his Bohemian habits.