George Eliot

Fred's voice had taken a tone of grumbling remonstrance, [...] [T]hey had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition. Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable. "Don’t speak of my painting before Naumann," said Will. "He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!" [G]oodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, [...] […] the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate’s ultimate decisions;