He was growing into the regular tastes of the refined, fastidious
Eton boy; wrote of the cut of his first tail-coat that 'this is
really an important thing;' and had grown choice in the adorning of
his room and the binding of his books, though he never let these
tastes bring him into debt or extravagance. His turn for art and
music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George's Chapel on
the Sunday afternoons gave him great delight; and in Eton Chapel, a
contemporary says, 'I well remember how he used to sing the Psalms
with the little turns at the end of the verses, which I envied his
being able to do.' Nor was this mere love of music, but devotion.
Coley had daily regular readings of the Bible in his room with his
brother, cousins, and a friend or two; but the boys were so shy about
it that they kept an open Shakespeare on the table, with an open
drawer below, in which the Bible was placed, and which was shut at
the sound of a hand on the door.

Hitherto No. 33 Bedford Square had been the only home of the Patteson
family. The long vacations were spent sometimes with the Judge's
relations in the Eastern counties, sometimes with Lady Patteson's in
the West. Landwith Rectory, in Cornwall, was the home of her eldest
brother, Dr. James Coleridge, whose daughter Sophia was always like
an elder sister to her children, and the Vicarage of St. Mary Church,
then a wild, beautiful seaside village, though now almost a suburb of
Torquay, was held by her cousin, George May Coleridge; and here the
brothers and sisters climbed the rocks, boated, fished, and ran
exquisitely wild in the summer holidays. Christmas was spent with
the Judge's mother at Ipswich, amongst numerous cousins, with great
merriment and enjoyment such as were never forgotten.