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es whofor all their
matter-of-fact breezinessare curiously alive to the romantic. It w
as
impossible to tell what he would do or say nextand you were kept
perpetually on the alert. He was certainly not wittybut he had a c
oarse
humour which excited the rather gross sense of the ludicrous possess
ed by
the young. He had a gift for caricature which was really diverting
and
an imperturbable assurance. He had also an ingenious talent for
profanityand his inventiveness in this particular was a power amon
g
youths whose imaginations stopped at the commoner sorts of bad langu
age.
I have heard him preach a sermon of the most blasphemous sort in the
very
accents of the late Dean of Christ Churchwhich outraged and at the
same
time irresistibly amused everyone who heard it. He had a more varied
knowledge than the greater part of undergraduatesandhaving at th
e
same time a retentive memory and considerable quicknesshe was able
to
assume an attitude of omniscience which was as impressive as it was
irritating. I have never heard him confess that he had not read a bo
ok.
Oftenwhen I tried to catch himhe confounded me by quoting the
identical words of a passage in some work which I could have sworn h
e had
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