How very sorrowful the whole story is! I love the sad and willful Sebastian and maybe in the end the rigid and old-fashioned Charles who always act and speak cautiously. But that's what the gentleman would be like in those days .
I got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enhance it; Sebastian drank to escape. As we together grew older and more serious I drank less, he more.