My father was at the same college, and described him again,--haughty, quarrelsome, reckless, handsome, aspiring, brave.
Does that kind of creature interest you, my dears ?" (appealing to the ladies).
"La!" said Miss Brabazon; "a horrid usurer's son!" "Ay, true; the vulgar proverb says it is good to be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth: so it is when one has one's own family crest on it; ut when it is a spoon on which people recognize their family crest, and cry out, 'Stolen from our plate chest,' it is a heritage that outlaws a babe in his cradle.

However, young men at college who want money are less scrupulous about descent than boys at Eton are.

Louis Grayle found, while at college, plenty of wellborn acquaintances willing to recover from him some of the plunder his father had extorted from theirs.

He was too wild to distinguish himself by academical honours, but my father said that the tutors of the college declared there were not six undergraduates in the University who knew as much hard and dry science as wild Louis Grayle.

He went into the world, no doubt, hoping to shine; but his father's name was too notorious to admit the son into good society.