He appeared shocked at the alteration he found in his sister, and was kinder than he had previously been in his manner towards her.

He had lately become heir to a fortune and estate, left him by a very old and distant relative of his father, and it was from this he had determined, he told his father, to go to Cambridge and cut a dash there with the best of them.

He was now eighteen, and believed himself no inconsiderable personage, in which belief he was warmly encouraged by his mistaken father.

It was strange that, with such an income, he permitted the favourite residence of his mother and sister to be sold--but so it was.

The generous feelings of his early childhood had been completely blunted, and to himself alone he intended to appropriate that fortune, when a portion would yet have removed many of Mrs.
Greville's anxious fears for the future.