I recognise no such thing.

Paul and myself will be able, when the time comes, to hold our own--the House, in other words, will be able to hold its own, and maintain its own, and hand down its own of itself, and without any such common-place aids.

The kind of foreign help which people usually seek for their children, I can afford to despise; being above it, I hope.

So that Paul's infancy and childhood pass away well, and I see him becoming qualified without waste of time for the career on which he is destined to enter, I am satisfied.

He will make what powerful friends he pleases in after-life, when he is actively maintaining--and extending, if that is possible--the dignity and credit of the Firm.