In town I believe he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence, and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 35. Darcy reveals in a letter to Elizabeth the truth about George Wickham’s slanderous and deceitful story to her that Darcy cheated him of an inheritance. Wickham resigned his church ministry studies in exchange for money for law school, said Darcy. But instead of using the money to attend law school, he squandered it on idleness and pleasure. When the money was gone, he asked Darcy for more, and when Darcy refused he was "violent in his abuse of me."