At Cambridge you were shielded from impurity by every
obstacle which virtuous and vigilant authorities could devise, and
even had the obstacles been fewer, your parents probably took care
that your means should not admit of your throwing money away upon
abandoned characters. At night proctors patrolled the street and
dogged your steps if you tried to go into any haunt where the presence
of vice was suspected. By day the females who were admitted within the
college walls were selected mainly on the score of age and ugliness.
It is hard to see what more can be done for any young man than this.
For the last four or five months you have been a clergyman, and if a
single impure thought had still remained within your mind,
ordination should have removed it: nevertheless, not only does it
appear that your mind is as impure as though none of the influences to
which I have referred had been brought to bear upon it, but it seems
as though their only result had been this- that you have not even
the common sense to be able to distinguish between a respectable
girl and a prostitute.
"If I were to take a strict view of my duty I should commit you
for trial, but in consideration of this being your first offence, I
shall deal leniently with you and sentence you to imprisonment with
hard labour for six calendar months.
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