'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous.'

My uncle is always happy to discharge his tutelary responsibilities towards me.

Seduction of a male is here a metaphor for self-willed corruption, better described as self-rape; it carries with it all the sneaking dubieties of suicide, which happens to be an inherited tendency of Jude Fawley. Rape is violent intrusion, a kind of murder; enticement requires self-violation and is therefore akin to suicide.

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