should hate him; and would never own him for a brother, or me for a
sister, if I married him.

That early antipathy I have heard accounted for in this manner:

Mr. Lovelace was always noted for his vivacity and courage; and no
less, it seems, for the swift and surprising progress he made in all
parts of literature: for diligence in his studies in the hours of
study, he had hardly his equal. This it seems was his general
character at the university; and it gained him many friends among the
more learned; while those who did not love him, feared him, by reason
of the offence his vivacity made him too ready to give, and of the
courage he shewed in supporting the offence when given; which procured
him as many followers as he pleased among the mischievous sort.--No
very amiable character, you'll say, upon the whole.

But my brother's temper was not more happy. His native haughtiness
could not bear a superiority so visible; and whom we fear more than
love, we are not far from hating: and having less command of his
passions than the other, he was evermore the subject of his perhaps
indecent ridicule: so that every body, either from love or fear,
siding with his antagonist, he had a most uneasy time of it while both
continued in the same college.--It was the less wonder therefore that
a young man who is not noted for the gentleness of his temper, should
resume an antipathy early begun, and so deeply rooted.

He found my sister, who waited but for the occasion, ready to join him
in his resentments against the man he hated. She utterly disclaimed
all manner of regard for him: 'Never liked him at all:--His estate was
certainly much incumbered: it was impossible it should be otherwise;