he wasn't proud."

"Did he?--did you ask young Clavering?" cried the Major, appeased at
once--"fine boy, rather wild, but a fine boy--parents like that sort of
attention, and you can't do better than pay it to our worthy friends of
Grosvenor Place. And so you took him to the play and tipped him? That
was right, sir, that was right:" with which Mentor quitted Telemachus,
thinking that the young men were not so very bad, and that he should
make something of that fellow yet.

As Blaster Clavering grew into years and stature, he became too strong
for the authority of his fond parents and governess; and rather governed
them than permitted himself to be led by their orders. With his papa
he was silent and sulky, seldom making his appearance, however, in the
neighbourhood of that gentleman; with his mamma be roared and fought
when any contest between them arose as to the gratification of his
appetite, or other wish of his heart; and in his disputes with his
governess over his book, he kicked that quiet creature's shins so
fiercely, that she was entirely overmastered and subdued by him. And
he would have so treated his sister Blanche, too, and did on one or
two occasions attempt to prevail over her; but she showed an immense
resolution and spirit on her part, and boxed his ears so soundly, that
he forbore from molesting Miss Amory, as he did the governess and his
mamma, and his mamma's maid.

At length, when the family came to London, Sir Francis gave forth
his opinion, that "the little beggar had best be sent to school."
Accordingly the young son and heir of the house of Clavering was
despatched to the Rev. Otto Rose's establishment at Twickenham,
where young noblemen and gentlemen were received preparatory to their
introduction to the great English public schools.

It is not our intention to follow Master Clavering in his scholastic
career; the paths to the Temple of Learning were made more easy to him
than they were to some of us of earlier generations. He advanced towards
that fane in a carriage-and-four, so to speak, and might halt and take
refreshment almost whenever he pleased. He wore varnished boots from
the earliest period of youth, and had cambric handkerchiefs and
lemon-coloured kid gloves, of the smallest size ever manufactured by
Privat. They dressed regularly at Mr. Rose's to come down to dinner; the
young gentlemen had shawl dressing-gowns, fires in their bedrooms, horse
and carriage exercise occasionally,