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Moreover, how much he did honour all true philosophers, without upbraiding those that were not so; his sociableness, his gracious and delightful conversation, but never unto satiety; his care of his body within bounds and measure, not as one that desired to live long, or over-studious of neatness, and elegancy; and yet not as one that did not regard it: so that through his own care and providence, he seldom needed any inward physic, or outward applications: but especially how ingeniously he would yield to any that had obtained any peculiar faculty, as either eloquence, or the knowledge of the laws, or of ancient customs, or the like; and how he concurred with them, in his best care and endeavour that every one of them might in his kind, for that wherein he excelled, be regarded and esteemed: and although he did all things carefully after the ancient customs of his forefathers, yet even of this was he not desirous that men should take notice, that he did imitate ancient customs.
He died in Edinburgh on the 8th of December, 1859. The Opium-Eater had been a weak, lonely, and over-studious child, and he was a solitary and ill-developed man. His character and his work present strange contradictions. He is most precise in statement, yet often very careless of fact; he is most courteous in manner, yet inexcusably inconsiderate in his behavior.
Like most men who pass their lives in over-studious efforts to please, however ungallant the confession be, the amiable Sparks had had little success.
Of course, when a child is almost constantly in the company of aged persons, and takes no pleasure in play, besides being over-studious, she is bound to be "queer." And such was Mary Mahon. When Dorothy threw open the parlor door after the rehearsal her face was radiant.
Carrick is not here this winter, her new baby keeping her in town; and Acton, of course, is only too happy to remain with her. "As for Gray, he is a nice boy a little slow, a trifle shy and retiring and over-studious; but his devotion to Shiela makes me love him. And he, too, ventured to ask me whether you were not coming down this winter to hunt along the Everglades with him and Little Tiger.
"Dear, dear! any one would suppose you were going in for a tripos. If this were your last term I could understand it but your first!" It was Miss Marsh who said these words. She was a bright-eyed, merry-looking girl, the reverse of over-studious herself. "Oh, come along, dear; I'll give you such a delicious cup of cocoa," said Miss Day.
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