Excerpt from Mandeville, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England At Winchester College to have been full of ungrateful accidents, and of sharp chagrin. But grief, When mellowed down by time, and seen obscurely through the atmosphere of added years, loses its more rigid and dis tressful features, and is not unaccompanied with a sedate and melanchol y pleasure. What I havelrecorded however may serve as a specimen of that portion of my exist ence, which I passed in the establishment of William of Wykeham. The rudeness of school-boy intercourse was ill suited to the sensitive 'temper of my soul and almost every day brought along with it its freight age of pain. By dint of being perpetually' in society, my disposition seemed to grow more solitary. In the majority of thy school-fellows, I covlld find nothing to love; and in the few in whom I could not but re cognize admirable qualities, these quali ties, seen through my distempered organ, changed their nature, and became the nourishment of hatred. By their brilliancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.