ckram a bait for
such a multiplicity of pupils, that a new wing was built to Richmond
Lodge, and thirty-five new little white dimity beds were added to
the establishment. Mm. Rose used to take out the little Lord in the
one-horse chaise with her when she paid visits, until the Rector's
lady and the Surgeon's wife almost died with envy. His own son and Lord
Buckram having been discovered robbing an orchard together, the Doctor
flogged his own flesh and blood most unmercifully for leading the young
Lord astray. He parted from him with tears. There was always a letter
directed to the Most Noble the Marquis ef Bagwig, on the Doctor's study
table, when any visitors were received by him.

At Eton, a great deal of Snobbishness was thrashed out of Lord Buckram,
and he was birched with perfect impartiality. Even there, however, a
select band of sucking tuft-hunters followed him. Young Croesus lent
him three-and-twenty bran-new sovereigns out of his father's bank. Young
Snaily did his exercises for him, and tried 'to know him at home;' but
Young Bull licked him in a fight of fifty-five minutes, and he was caned
several times with great advantage for not sufficiently polishing his
master Smith's shoes. Boys are not ALL toadies in the morning of life.

But when he went to the University, crowds of toadies sprawled over
him. The tutors toadied him. The fellows in hall paid him great clumsy
compliments. The Dean never remarked his absence from Chapel, or heard
any noise issuing from his rooms. A number of respectable young fellows,
(it is among the respectable, the Baker Street class, that Snobbishness
flourishes, more than among any set of people in England)--a number of
these clung to him like leeches. There was no end now to Croesus's loans
of money; and Buckram couldn't ride out with the hounds, but Snaily (a
timid creature by nature) was in the field, and would take any leap at
which his friend chose to ride. Young Rose came up to the same College,
having been kept back for that express purpose by his father. He spent a
quarter's allowance in giving Buckram a single dinner; but he knew
there was always pardon for him for extravagance in such a cause; and a
ten-pound note always came to him from home when he mentioned Buckram's
name in a letter. What wild visions entered the brains of Mrs. Podge
and Miss Podge, the wife and daughter of the Principal of Lord Buckram's
College, I don't know, but that reverend old gentleman was too