Sure to inherit his banking business and probably heir to his land.
Mrs.Peter Melcombe had some handsome and becoming raiment made, and waited with impatience; for in addition to Mr.John Mortimer's worldly advantages she found him attractive.
So did some other people.

John Mortimer's troubles on that head began very soon after the sending of his first invitation to Mrs.Melcombe, when the excellent elderly lady who taught the little Mortimers (and in a great measure kept his house) let him know that she could no longer do justice to them.

They got on so fast, they had such spirits, they were so active and so big, that she felt she could not cope with them.
Moreover, the three eldest were exceptionally clever, and the noise made by the whole tribe fatigued her.
John sent his eldest boy to school, promised her masters to help her, and an assistant governess, but she would not stay, and with her went for a time much of the comfort of that house.
Mr.Mortimer easily got another governess--a very pretty young lady who did not, after a little while, take much interest in the children, but certainly did take an interest in him.

She was always contriving to meet him--in the hall, on the stairs, in the garden.

Then she looked at him at church, and put him so out of countenance and enraged him, and made him feel so ridiculous, that one day he took himself off to the Continent, and kept away till she was gone.
Having managed that business, he got another governess, and she let him alone, and the children too, for they completely got the better of her; used to make her romp with them, and sometimes went so far as to lock her into the schoolroom.