CHAPTER V

. THE ETON SCHOOLBOY 69

First year at Eton--Creation of the Castle-Goring Baronetcy-- Sir Bysshe Shelley's Last Will--Timothy Shelley's Children-- Miss Hellen Shelley's Recollections--The Etonian at Home-- The Big Tortoise--The Great Snake--Dr. Keate--Mr. Packe at fault--Walter Halliday--Mr. Hexter--Mr. Bethell--Fagging--Mad Shelley--'Old Walker'--Enthusiasm for Natural Science--The Rebel of the School--Lord High Atheist--Dr. Lind's Pernicious Influence on Shelley--Poetical Fictions about Dr. Lind-- Shelley's Illness at Field Place--His Monstrous Hallucination touching his Father--John Shelley the Lunatic--_Zastrozzi_-- Premature Withdrawal from Eton.

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