In town I believe he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence, and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.
C’est la, je crois, qu’il vivait surtout, mais ses études de droit n’étaient qu’un simple prétexte ; libre maintenant de toute contrainte, il menait une existence de paresse et de dissipation.