text:  If such a rare and undesirable exception did happen seldom indeed did he bestow himself even for a day or two upon his mother and sisters at Nottingham; and never did he by any oversight permit a letter to be addressed to him there; if it could not conveniently bear the address of some of his titled entertainers it was to meet him at his college to which he usually retired to await with sufficient discontent an invitation or the beginning of term; while he took pains to have it understood that his temporary seclusion was hardly spared him from the hospitable importunities of those whom he delighted to call "his many friends " in order to attend to important business