15/24 Augustus was certainly behaving well to him. Not a word of rebuke had passed his lips as to the infamous attempt at spoliation which had been made. The old squire felt grateful for his younger son's conduct, but yet in his heart of hearts he preferred the elder. A man with so great a propensity for getting rid of money I think no father ever before had to endure." "You have had the last of it." "I do not know that. If I live, and he lets me know his whereabouts, I cannot leave him penniless. |