His friends, and he had many, who, as well as Cedric, were passionately attached to him, contended that this sluggish temper arose not from want of courage, but from mere want of decision; others alleged that his hereditary vice of drunkenness had obscured his faculties, never of a very acute order, and that the passive courage and meek good-nature which remained behind, were merely the dregs of a character that might have been deserving of praise, but of which all the valuable parts had flown off in the progress of a long course of brutal debauchery.
Mások azt mondták, hogy az iszákosság örökölt hajlama tompí­totta el eszét, amely sohasem volt valami éles. Ezek szerint nehezen megmozduló bátorsága és jám­bor, jóindulatú türelme csak a maradéka, a seprője volt az egykori nemes tulajdonságok­nak, amelyeknek javát elmosták a durva korhelykedés hosszú évei.