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“... escaped during the night. What ingratitude, said
an uncle, I sent that fellow some rum when he was ill.
And I, said an aunt, sent some extra food to his children
only the other day. And I....... But did any one ever
offer to give him his liberty? a childs voice piped up. All
eyes turned on that boy, and one of the party, looking at the
boys parents, said: I warn you, this boy will come to some
bad end.
However, De Leon boasted of no chivalrous age as far
as the revolutionary game was concerned. He never caught
the disease so common to young aristocrats of the student
class. Even in Germany, so he told me himself, where he
studied during the tumultuous sixties, he never caught
the germ. If there were any revolutionary waves stir-
ring among any of the bodies at Leyden, he either did not
hear of them at all, or their activities rolled past him with-
out making any Impression. He was frankly a young aristo-
crat, bent on acquiring knowledge, drinking with the full
capacity of...”
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