When one is placed in the po­s­i­tion of guard­ian, one has to ad­opt a very high moral tone on all sub­jects. It’s one’s duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to con­duce very much to either one’s health or one’s hap­pi­ness, in or­der to get up to town I have al­ways pre­ten­ded to have a younger brother of the name of Ern­est, who lives in the Al­bany, and gets into the most dread­ful scrapes