But he was affectionate to his children, and anxious above all things for their welfare, or rather happiness.

Some marvellous stories were told as to his income, which arose chiefly from the Tretton delf-works and from the town of Tretton, which had been built chiefly on his very park, in consequence of the nature of the clay and the quality of the water.

As a fact, the original four thousand a year, to which his father had been born, had grown to twenty thousand by nature of the operations which had taken place.

But the whole of this, whether four thousand or twenty thousand, was strictly entailed, and Mr.
Scarborough had been very anxious, since his second son was born, to create for him also something which might amount to opulence.

But they who knew him best knew that of all things he hated most the entail.
The boys were both educated at Eton, and the elder went into the Guards, having been allowed an intermediate year in order to learn languages on the Continent.