Page:A Life's Morning by George Gissing (volume 1).djvu/13

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

A LIFE'S MORNING.

CHAPTER I.

AN UNDERGRADUATE AT LEISURE.

Wilfrid Athel went down invalided a few days after the beginning of Trinity term. The event was not unanticipated. At Christmas it had been clear enough that he was overtaxing himself; his father remarked on the fact with anxiety, and urged moderation, his own peculiar virtue. Wilfrid, whose battle with circumstances was all before him, declined to believe that the body was anything but the very humble servant of the will. So the body took its revenge.