Yet he tells me that he has the greatest difficulty in raising a thousand pounds, and positively refuses in his present difficulties to add above five hundred a year to my former allowance.

No father who had thoroughly done his duty by his son, could speak in a more fixed and austere manner.

And yet he knows that every shilling will be mine as soon as he goes." The servant who was waiting upon them had been in and out of the room while this was said, and must have heard much of it.

But to that Augustus seemed to be quite indifferent.

And, indeed, the whole family story was known to every servant in the house.