"How much of this indecision of character," Mr. Jarndyce said to me, "is chargeable on that incomprehensible heap of uncertainty and procrastination on which he has been thrown from his birth, I don't pretend to say; but that Chancery, among its other sins, is responsible for some of it, I can plainly see. It has engendered or confirmed in him a habit of putting off--and trusting to this, that, and the other chance, without knowing what chance--and dismissing everything as unsettled, uncertain, and confused. The character of much older and steadier people may be even changed by the circumstances surrounding them. It would be too much to expect that a boy's, in its formation, should be the subject of such influences and escape them."

"How much of this indecision of character," Mr. Jarndyce said to me, "is due to the uncertainty on which he has been thrown from his birth, I don't know; but that Chancery is responsible for some of it, I can plainly see. It has confirmed in him a habit of putting off - and trusting to chance, without knowing what chance - and dismissing everything as unsettled and confused. The character of much older people may be changed by the circumstances surrounding them. It would be too much to expect that a boy's should escape."
