I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell's sometime last summer.
The narrator reflects on how he has dedicated significant leisure time to self-improvement over the past year, yet realizes much of it has been wasted. He feels that despite his attempts to better himself, his experiences during peaceful walks in the pasture with respectable young women are overshadowed by lowly desires and impulses.
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