And she doesn't have to keep going to the lavvy like poor Mr Thomas and Miss Welch and so many of them.

Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.

He's wasting time at university not getting after his degree.

These assertions are followed by a cautionary statement: Whether strictly true or not the story should be seen as true to the man ... a claim to a sort of natural sagacity, a deck-wise craft, which make up for his lack of formal schooling.