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As to any provincial history in which the agents are all of high moral rank , that must be of a date long posterior to the first Reform Bill , and Peter Featherstone , you perceive , was dead and buried some months before Lord Grey came into office . CHAPTER XXXVI . ’ T is strange to see the humors of these men , These great aspiring spirits , that should be wise : . . . . . . . . For being the nature of great spirits to love To be where they may be most eminent ; They , rating of themselves so farre above Us in conceit , with whom they do frequent , Imagine how we wonder and esteeme All that they do or say ; which makes them strive To make our admiration more extreme , Which they suppose they cannot , ’ less they give Notice of their extreme and highest thoughts . — DANIEL : Tragedy of Philotas . Mr . Vincy went home from the reading of the will with his point of view considerably changed in relation to many subjects . He was an open - minded man , but given to indirect modes of expressing himself : when he was disappointed in a market for his silk braids , he swore at the groom ; when his brother - in - law Bulstrode had vexed him , he made cutting remarks on Methodism ; and it was now apparent that he regarded Fred’s idleness with a sudden increase of severity , by his throwing an embroidered cap out of the smoking - room on to the hall - floor . “ Well , sir , ” he observed , when that young gentleman was moving off to bed , “ I hope you’ve made up your mind now to go up next term and pass your examination . I’ve taken my resolution , so I advise you to lose no time in taking yours . ” Fred made no answer : he was too utterly depressed . Twenty - four hours ago he had thought that instead of needing to know what he should do , he should by this time know that he needed to do nothing : that he should hunt in pink , have a first - rate hunter , ride to cover on a fine hack , and be generally respected for doing so ; moreover , that he should be able at once to pay Mr . Garth , and that Mary could no longer have any reason for not marrying him . And all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience , purely by the favor of providence in the shape of an old gentleman’s caprice . But now , at the end of the twenty - four hours , all those firm expectations were upset . It was “ rather hard lines ” that while he was smarting under this disappointment he should be treated as if he could have helped it . But he went away silently and his mother pleaded for him .
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