attachment to the place. I go down to Eton on Election Saturday and
Sunday for my last enjoyment of it this year; but if I am well and
nourishing in the summer of 1849, and all goes right with me, it is
one of the jolliest prospects of my emancipation from the schools to
think of a month at Eton. Oh! it's hard work reading for it, I can
tell you.'

Thus Coley Patteson's work throughout his undergraduate three years
was, so to speak, against the grain, though it was more diligent and
determined than it had been at Eton. He viewed this as the least
satisfactory period of his life, and probably it was that in which he
was doing the most violence to his likings. It struck those who had
known him at Eton that he had 'shaken off the easy-going,
comfortable, half-sluggish habit of mind' attributed to him there,
and to be earnestly preparing for the future work of life. His
continued interest in Missions was shown by his assisting to collect
subscriptions for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. In
fact, his charm of manner, and his way of taking for granted that
people meant to do what they ought, made him a good collector, and he
had had a good deal of practice at Eton in keeping up the boys to the
subscription for the stained glass of the east window of the Chapel
which they had undertaken to give.

That Long vacation of study was a great effort, and he felt it
tedious and irksome, all the more from a weakness that affected his
eyelids, and, though it did not injure his sight, often rendered
reading and writing painful. Slight ailments concurred with other
troubles and vexations to depress his spirits; and besides these
outward matters, he seems to have had a sense of not coming up to his
ideal. His standard was pitched higher than that of most men: his