If you don't take it, _my_ doors are closed against you as well as _his._" Nothing is more remarkable, in its way, than the sound common-sense and admirable self-restraint exhibited by the youth of the present time when confronted by an emergency in which their own interests are concerned.
Instead of resenting the tone which his brother had taken with him, Geoffrey instantly descended from the pedestal of glory on which he stood, and placed himself without a struggle in the hands which vicariously held his destiny--otherwise, the hands which vicariously held the purse.

In five minutes more the meeting had been dismissed, with all needful assurances relating to Geoffrey's share in the coming Sports--and the two brothers were closeted together in one of the private rooms of the inn.
"Out with it!" said Geoffrey.

"And don't be long about it." "I won't be five minutes," replied Julius.

"I go back to-night by the mail-train; and I have a great deal to do in the mean time.

Here it is, in plain words: My father consents to see you again, if you choose to settle in life--with his approval.