He had then become a cornet in the Coldstreams, and had, from that time, lived a life of reckless expenditure.

His brother Augustus had in the mean time gone to Cambridge and become a barrister.
He had been called but two years when the story was made known of his father's singular assertion.

As from that time it became unnecessary for him to practise his profession, no more was heard of him as a lawyer.

But they who had known the young man in the chambers of that great luminary, Mr.Rugby, declared that a very eminent advocate was now spoiled by a freak of fortune.
Of his brother Mountjoy,--or Captain Scarborough, as he came to be known at an early period of his life,--the stories which were told in the world at large were much too remarkable to be altogether true.

But it was only too true that he lived as though the wealth at his command were without limit.