Then when he heard from his son's tutor that his son could not pass his degree without the payment of L800 for recognised debts,--then his anger boiled over, and he told John Caldigate that he was expelled from his father's heart and his father's house.
The money was paid and the degree was taken: and there arose the question as to what was to be done.

John, of course, took himself to Babington House, and was condoled with by his uncle and cousins.

His troubles at this time were numerous enough.

That L800 by no means summed up his whole indebtedness;--covered indeed but a small part of it.

He had been at Newmarket; and there was a pleasant gentleman, named Davis, who frequented that place and Cambridge, who had been very civil to him when he lost a little money, and who now held his acceptances for, alas! much more than L800.