The Man of Determination

For days on end, he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night. On these occasions, noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes that i might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic. He was not studying medicine, he had himself, in reply to a question, confirmed stanford's opinion upon that point. Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science,. Yet his zeal for certain studies was remarkable. And within eccentric limits, his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observations have fairly astounded me