The time would come when he would probably be heir not only to his father's money, but also to the Wharton title and the Wharton property,--when his position in the country would really be, as he frequently told himself, quite considerable.

Was it possible that he should refrain from blaming his father for not allowing him to obtain, early in life, that parliamentary education which would fit him to be an ornament to the House of Commons, and a safeguard to his country in future years?
Now he and Lopez were at the Progress together, and they were almost the only men in the club.

Lopez was quite contented with his own present sojourn in London.

He had not only been at Gatherum Castle but was going there again.

And then he had brilliant hopes before him,--so brilliant that they began, he thought, to assume the shape of certainties.