of contemporaries, yet I was neither intimate with him nor with any one else, except my old schoolfellow Edward Long
(with whom I used to pass the day in riding and swimming), and William Bankes, who was good-naturedly tolerant of my ferocities.
was not till 1807, after I had been upwards of a year away from Cambridge, to which I had returned again to
reside
for my degree, that I became one of Matthews's familiars, by means of Hobhouse
, who, after hating me for two years, because I wore a
white hat