No, Percival was not a misanthrope.

"I couldn't, you know, Miss Percival, when Mr. Abraham told me not to," were the positive words she used in giving her reason.

[Sidenote: Percival berates Sir Kay] Then the Queen fell aweeping very sorely from fright and shame, and when young Percival beheld her tears, he could not abide the sight thereof.

My interview with Mrs. Catherick satisfied me that Sir Percival was not the father of Anne, and that their secret meeting in the vestry had reference to some object other than romance.

Percival was an earnest advocate of popular education.

It is not, perhaps, widely known, that Percival was a well-informed botanist.

Of these, Percival was but three years of age; the others, excepting Dornar, being nigh to the estate of manhood.

"You see, Percival had always been a thorn in the old man's flesh.

Yea; there were many who doubted whether Sir Launcelot himself was really a greater knight than Sir Percival; and though I may admit that Sir Launcelot had the greater prowess, yet Sir Percival was, certes, the more pure in heart and transparent of soul of those two.

And at these words Sir Kay was in no wise pleased, for he wist that Sir Percival would one day become a very strong and worthy knight.

And likewise I bring thee greeting from myself: for I am Percival, King Pellinore's son, and thy Queen and my mother are sisters.

"Percival is a very smart dog, you know.

Sir Percival was the illegitimate son of his father, and had forged this entry of his father's marriage in order to secure the title and estates.

"Mary Percival was Alice's best friend; as such, she came to comfort and to mourn with me.

Honey darling, don't you know that Master Percival, your father, was my master ever so many years?"and

In diet, Percival was the most abstemious person I ever knew.