Venal Villains--'Jock' instructed to 'Pouch' them--At Work on another Novel--The Dog of a Publisher--Devil of a Price--_St. Irvyne_--Irving's Hill--Review of _St. Irvyne_--Wolfstein the Magnanimous--Megalena de Metastasio--Olympia della Anzasca-- Eloise St. Irvyne--The Virtuous Fitzeustace--Ginotti's Doom-- The Oxonian Shelley's Repugnance to Marriage--His Commendation of Free Love--Parallel Passages of _Zastrozzi_ and _St. Irvyne_--The Verses of _St. Irvyne_. CHAPTER IX. MR. DENIS FLORENCE MACCARTHY _v._ THOMAS JEFFERSON HOGG 168 Shelley's Matriculation at Oxford--Hogg's Matriculation at Oxford--Hogg's First Arrival at Oxford--Lord Grenville's Election--Mr. Denis Florence MacCarthy's Blunders--Hogg's 'New Monthly' Papers on Shelley at Oxford--Mrs. Shelley's Reason for not Writing her Husband's 'Life'--Peacock's Reason for not Writing it--Leigh Hunt's Reason for not Writing it--Hogg undertakes the Task--Hogg's Two Volumes--Their Merits and Faults--Hogg dismissed by Field Place--His Mistakes and Misrepresentations--Some of his Misrepresentations adopted by Field Place. CHAPTER X. AT OXFORD: MICHAELMAS TERM, 1810 179 Hogg's Toryism--Shelley's Liberalism--In Hogg's Rooms-- Shelley's Looks and Voice--Patron and Idolater--The Ways of Passing Time--Hogg's Reminiscences--Nocturnal Readings and Conversations--Country about Oxford--Pistol Practice--Playing with Paper Boats--Windmill and Plashy Meadow--The Horror of it--Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson--University Tattle and Laughter--Eccentric Inseparables--Pond under Shotover Hill--Pacing 'The High'--Dons' Civility to Shelley-- His Incivility to Dons--Uninteresting Stones and Dull People--'Partly True and Partly False'--The Fiery Hun!--'My Dear Boy'--Shelley offers his Sister to Hogg in Marriage--Hogg entertains the Proposal--End of Term. CHAPTER XI. THE CHRISTMAS VACATION OF 1810-11 210 Presentation copies of _St. Irvyne_--Shelley resorts to Deception--Shelley in Disgrace at Field Place--Harriett Grove's Dismissal of her Suitor--The Squire's Anger--Mrs. Shelley's Alarm for her Girls--Shelley's Troubles--His Rage against Intolerance--His Wild Letters to Hogg--'Married to a Clod'--Stockdale's Design--His Intercourse with Shelley's Father--More Negotiations with the Pall-Mall Publisher-- Shelley a Deist--Controversial Correspondence--Shelley's Attempt to enlighten his Father--His Passage from Deism to Atheism--The Squire relents to his Son--Hogg invited to Field Place--Stockdale's Disappointment--Stockdale's Character--His Scandalous _Budget_. CHAPTER XII. MR. MACCARTHY'S DISCOVERIES TOUCHING THE OXONIAN SHELLEY 234