 one of those extraordinary friendships – if attachment to persons so inferior to himself can be called by that name – of which I have already mentioned two or three instances in his younger days , and in which the pride of being a protector , and the pleasure of exerting gratitude , seem to have constituted to his mind the chief , pervading charm . The person , whom he now adopted in this manner , and from similar feelings to those which had inspired his early attachments to the cottage @-@ boy near Newstead , and the young chorister at Cambridge , was a Greek youth , named Nicolo Giraud , the son , I believe , of a widow lady , in whose house the artist Lusieri lodged . In this young man he appear [ s ] to have taken the most lively , and even brotherly , interest . 
