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He was a first-rate Grecian and had he turned his attention exclusively to that language might have contested the palm with Porson himself; nor do those who are best qualified to judge hesitate to place him upon an equality with Burney, Young or Parr. He was also an excellent Latinist, and had a profound acquaintance with geometry, and the other branches of mathematical science.
As you know, Morris is engaged to be married to my niece, Miss Porson, and it is a contract which, even if he wished it, honour would forbid him to break, for family as well as for personal reasons." "Quite so, quite so; it is not to be thought of. But again I ask What is to be done?" "Is that not rather a question for you to consider?
"Yes, Ned, he had better not, no doubt," Mr. Porson said soothingly; "but what I want to know, what it is essential I should know if I am to give you any advice worth having, is what you mean by ill treatment is he rough and violent in his way with her? does he threaten her with violence? is he coarse and brutal?"
This "menage" at Beaulieu oppressed him, and he hated the place. Besides, Mary, seeing that he was worried, almost insisted on his departure. "If I want you back I will send for you," she said. "Go to your work, dear; you will be happier." So he kissed her fondly and went as he was fated to go. "Good-bye, my dear son," said Mr. Porson sometimes he called him his son, now.
"Welcome back, dear boy!" Mr. Porson said, grasping his hand. "God grant that better times are in store for you, and that you may outlive this trial which has at present darkened your life. Now we will leave you to your brother and sister. I am sure you will be glad to be alone with them." And so Ned took to the life he had marked out for himself. In two months he seemed to have aged years.
No one can say as Mother Brown is hard on boys, and I am always ready to wait reasonable; but I can't abear lies, and when I lent that ten shillings I expected it was going to be paid punctual." "Then he knows you are going to speak to Mr. Porson on Saturday if he doesn't pay up another five shillings?" "He knows it," the old woman said, nodding. "When I says a thing I mean it.
Sankey would murmur to herself, "That boy's temper gets worse and worse, and with my poor nerves how am I to control him?" Mr. Porson was very kind to him in those days. During that summer holiday he had very frequently spent the evening at Captain Sankey's, and had formed a pretty correct idea of the character of Ned's mother.
"Very little," said Mr Watkins, "just a snack here and there." "Academy?" "In course. And the Crystal Palace." "Did they hang you well?" said Porson. "Don't rot," said Mr Watkins; "I don't like it." "I mean did they put you in a good place?" "Whadyer mean?" said Mr Watkins suspiciously. "One 'ud think you were trying to make out I'd been put away."
Yet I cried when I heard those words, but I suppose it was the music that made me cry; it has that inconvenient effect sometimes. Well, I have no doubt that he will see plenty of Miss Porson, and it would have been a great pity to break off the experiments just now." One more extract from the very last entry in the series of books.
And aa want ye to join with me in asking for pardon and speedy repentance to be sent tiv a porson that belangs te the gentry of this district, but whe hes been, and is noo engaged in trafficking in wickedness. May the Lord bring him to His footstool of mercy before he is nabbed, as aa was."
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