ose parents were appeased, and
whose father said Mr. P. had acted quite as the gentleman--though Bows
growled out that that to plaster a wounded heart with a banknote was an
easy kind of sympathy; and poor Fanny felt only too clearly that Pen's
letter was one of farewell.

"Sending hundred-pound notes to porters' daughters is all dev'lish
well," old Major Pendennis said to his nephew (whom, as thee proprietor
of Fairoaks and the head of the family, he now treated with marked
deference and civility), "and as there was a little ready money at the
bank, and your poor mother wished it, there's perhaps no harm done. But,
my good lad, I'd have you to remember that you've not above five hundred
a year, though, thanks to me the world gives you credit for being a
doosid deal better off; and, on my knees, I beg you, my boy, don't break
into your capital: Stick to it, sir; don't speculate with it, sir; keep
your land, and don't borrow on it. Tatham tells me that the Chatteris
branch of the railway may--will almost certainly pass through Chatteris,
and of it can be brought on this side of the Brawl, sir, and through
your fields, they'll be worth a dev'lish deal of money, and your five
hundred a year will jump up to eight or nine. Whatever it is, keep it,
I implore you keep it. And I say, Pen, I think you should give up living
in those dirty chambers in the Temple and let a decent lodging. And I
should have a man, sir, to wait upon me; and a horse or two in town in
the season. All this will pretty well swallow up your income, and I know
you must live close. But remember you have a certain place in society,
and you can't afford to cut a poor figure in the world. What are you
going to do in the winter? You don't intend to stay down here, or, I
suppose, to go on writing for that--what-d'ye-call-'em--that newspaper?"

"Warrington and I are going abroad again, sir, for a little, and then we
shall see what is to be done," Arthur replied.

"And you'll let Fairoaks, of course? Good school in the neighbourhood;
cheap country: dev'lish nice place for East India Colonels, or families
wanting to retire. I'll speak about it at the club; there are lots of
fellows at the club want a place of that sort."

"I hope Laura will live in it for the winter, at least, and will make
it her home," Arthur replied: at which the Major pish'd and psha'd, and
said that there ought to be convents, begad, for English ladies,
and wished that Miss Bell had not bee