Question

Nobody could help liking this excellent man; which made it all the greater pity that his walk in life was of such a nature that it simply had to be kept from Harold. what is the meaning of these lines taken from ch keeping it from harold ?

Answer 1

Harold is a intelligent boy so his parents think that if he heard his father was a boxer ,harolds heart will really broken and he will lost his studies so they didn't say to him but after hearing his father was a boxer from jerry fisher and his father was the famous young porky he say that he like boxing, it makes the parents very pity