It must not, however, be imagined that Mr.Prosper was especially attached to his nephew.

When the boy left the Charter-house, where his uncle had paid his school-bills, he was sent to Cambridge, with an allowance of two hundred and fifty pounds a year, and that allowance was still continued to him, with an assurance that under no circumstances could it ever be increased.

At college he had been successful, and left Cambridge with a college fellowship.

He therefore left it with one hundred and seventy-five pounds added to his income, and was considered by all those at Buston Rectory to be a rich young man.
But Harry did not find that his combined income amounted to riches amid a world of idleness.

At Buston he was constantly told by his uncle of the necessity of economy.