well.

Harry Esmond's vacation was just over, and, as hath been said, he was
preparing to return to the University for his last term before taking
his degree and entering into the Church. He had made up his mind for
this office, not indeed with that reverence which becomes a man about to
enter upon a duty so holy, but with a worldly spirit of acquiescence
in the prudence of adopting that profession for his calling. But his
reasoning was that he owed all to the family of Castlewood, and loved
better to be near them than anywhere else in the world; that he might
be useful to his benefactors, who had the utmost confidence in him and
affection for him in return; that he might aid in bringing up the young
heir of the house and acting as his governor; that he might continue to
be his dear patron's and mistress's friend and adviser, who both were
pleased to say that they should ever look upon him as such; and so, by
making himself useful to those he loved best, he proposed to console
himself for giving up of any schemes of ambition which he might have had
in his own bosom. Indeed, his mistress had told him that she would not
have him leave her; and whatever she commanded was will to him.

The Lady Castlewood's mind was greatly relieved in the last few days of
this well-remembered holiday time, by my lord's announcing one morning,
after the post had brought him letters from London, in a careless tone,
that the Lord Mohun was gone to Paris, and was about to make a great
journey in Europe; and though Lord Castlewood's own gloom did not wear
off, or his behavior alter, yet this cause of anxiety being removed from
his lady's mind, she began to be more hopeful and easy in her spirits,
striving too, with all her heart, and by all the means of soothing in
her power, to call back my lord's cheerfulness and dissipate his moody
humor.

He accounted for it himself, by saying that he was out of health; that
he wanted to see his physician; that he would go to London, and consult
Doctor Cheyne. It was agreed that his lordship and Harry Esmond should
make the journey as far as London together; and of a Monday morning, the
11th of October, in the year 1700, they set forwards towards London on
horseback. The day before being Sunday, and the rain pouring down, the
family did not visit church; and at night my lord read the service
to his family very finely, and with a peculiar sweetness and
gravity--speaking the parting benediction, Harry thou