The hot weather made him indolent,andhe had shirked his studies,tried Mr.Broike's patience to the utmost,displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad,and,after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse,he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general ,till the peace of the lovely day quited him in spite of himself.