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The
child
had
many
more
luxuries
and
indulgences
than
had
been
awarded
his
father
.
Osborne
's
commerce
had
prospered
greatly
of
late
years
.
His
wealth
and
importance
in
the
City
had
very
much
increased
.
He
had
been
glad
enough
in
former
days
to
put
the
elder
George
to
a
good
private
school
;
and
a
commission
in
the
army
for
his
son
had
been
a
source
of
no
small
pride
to
him
;
for
little
George
and
his
future
prospects
the
old
man
looked
much
higher
.
He
would
make
a
gentleman
of
the
little
chap
,
was
Mr.
Osborne
's
constant
saying
regarding
little
Georgy
.
He
saw
him
in
his
mind
's
eye
,
a
collegian
,
a
Parliament
man
,
a
Baronet
,
perhaps
.
The
old
man
thought
he
would
die
contented
if
he
could
see
his
grandson
in
a
fair
way
to
such
honours
.
He
would
have
none
but
a
tip-top
college
man
to
educate
him
--
none
of
your
quacks
and
pretenders
--
no
,
no
.
A
few
years
before
,
he
used
to
be
savage
,
and
inveigh
against
all
parsons
,
scholars
,
and
the
like
declaring
that
they
were
a
pack
of
humbugs
,
and
quacks
that
were
n't
fit
to
get
their
living
but
by
grinding
Latin
and
Greek
,
and
a
set
of
supercilious
dogs
that
pretended
to
look
down
upon
British
merchants
and
gentlemen
,
who
could
buy
up
half
a
hundred
of
'em
.
He
would
mourn
now
,
in
a
very
solemn
manner
,
that
his
own
education
had
been
neglected
,
and
repeatedly
point
out
,
in
pompous
orations
to
Georgy
,
the
necessity
and
excellence
of
classical
acquirements
.
When
they
met
at
dinner
the
grandsire
used
to
ask
the
lad
what
he
had
been
reading
during
the
day
,
and
was
greatly
interested
at
the
report
the
boy
gave
of
his
own
studies
,
pretending
to
understand
little
George
when
he
spoke
regarding
them
.
He
made
a
hundred
blunders
and
showed
his
ignorance
many
a
time
.
It
did
not
increase
the
respect
which
the
child
had
for
his
senior
.
A
quick
brain
and
a
better
education
elsewhere
showed
the
boy
very
soon
that
his
grandsire
was
a
dullard
,
and
he
began
accordingly
to
command
him
and
to
look
down
upon
him
;
for
his
previous
education
,
humble
and
contracted
as
it
had
been
,
had
made
a
much
better
gentleman
of
Georgy
than
any
plans
of
his
grandfather
could
make
him
.
He
had
been
brought
up
by
a
kind
,
weak
,
and
tender
woman
,
who
had
no
pride
about
anything
but
about
him
,
and
whose
heart
was
so
pure
and
whose
bearing
was
so
meek
and
humble
that
she
could
not
but
needs
be
a
true
lady
.
She
busied
herself
in
gentle
offices
and
quiet
duties
;
if
she
never
said
brilliant
things
,
she
never
spoke
or
thought
unkind
ones
;
guileless
and
artless
,
loving
and
pure
,
indeed
how
could
our
poor
little
Amelia
be
other
than
a
real
gentlewoman
!
Young
Georgy
lorded
over
this
soft
and
yielding
nature
;
and
the
contrast
of
its
simplicity
and
delicacy
with
the
coarse
pomposity
of
the
dull
old
man
with
whom
he
next
came
in
contact
made
him
lord
over
the
latter
too
.
If
he
had
been
a
Prince
Royal
he
could
not
have
been
better
brought
up
to
think
well
of
himself
.
Whilst
his
mother
was
yearning
after
him
at
home
,
and
I
do
believe
every
hour
of
the
day
,
and
during
most
hours
of
the
sad
lonely
nights
,
thinking
of
him
,
this
young
gentleman
had
a
number
of
pleasures
and
consolations
administered
to
him
,
which
made
him
for
his
part
bear
the
separation
from
Amelia
very
easily
.
Little
boys
who
cry
when
they
are
going
to
school
cry
because
they
are
going
to
a
very
uncomfortable
place
.
It
is
only
a
few
who
weep
from
sheer
affection
.
When
you
think
that
the
eyes
of
your
childhood
dried
at
the
sight
of
a
piece
of
gingerbread
,
and
that
a
plum
cake
was
a
compensation
for
the
agony
of
parting
with
your
mamma
and
sisters
,
oh
my
friend
and
brother
,
you
need
not
be
too
confident
of
your
own
fine
feelings
.
Well
,
then
,
Master
George
Osborne
had
every
comfort
and
luxury
that
a
wealthy
and
lavish
old
grandfather
thought
fit
to
provide
.
The
coachman
was
instructed
to
purchase
for
him
the
handsomest
pony
which
could
be
bought
for
money
,
and
on
this
George
was
taught
to
ride
,
first
at
a
riding-school
,
whence
,
after
having
performed
satisfactorily
without
stirrups
,
and
over
the
leaping-bar
,
he
was
conducted
through
the
New
Road
to
Regent
's
Park
,
and
then
to
Hyde
Park
,
where
he
rode
in
state
with
Martin
the
coachman
behind
him
.
Old
Osborne
,
who
took
matters
more
easily
in
the
City
now
,
where
he
left
his
affairs
to
his
junior
partners
,
would
often
ride
out
with
Miss
O.
in
the
same
fashionable
direction
.
As
little
Georgy
came
cantering
up
with
his
dandified
air
and
his
heels
down
,
his
grandfather
would
nudge
the
lad
's
aunt
and
say
,
"
Look
,
Miss
O.
"
And
he
would
laugh
,
and
his
face
would
grow
red
with
pleasure
,
as
he
nodded
out
of
the
window
to
the
boy
,
as
the
groom
saluted
the
carriage
,
and
the
footman
saluted
Master
George
.
Here
too
his
aunt
,
Mrs.
Frederick
Bullock
(
whose
chariot
might
daily
be
seen
in
the
Ring
,
with
bullocks
or
emblazoned
on
the
panels
and
harness
,
and
three
pasty-faced
little
Bullocks
,
covered
with
cockades
and
feathers
,
staring
from
the
windows
)
Mrs.
Frederick
Bullock
,
I
say
,
flung
glances
of
the
bitterest
hatred
at
the
little
upstart
as
he
rode
by
with
his
hand
on
his
side
and
his
hat
on
one
ear
,
as
proud
as
a
lord
.
Though
he
was
scarcely
eleven
years
of
age
,
Master
George
wore
straps
and
the
most
beautiful
little
boots
like
a
man
.
He
had
gilt
spurs
,
and
a
gold-headed
whip
,
and
a
fine
pin
in
his
handkerchief
,
and
the
neatest
little
kid
gloves
which
Lamb
's
Conduit
Street
could
furnish
.
His
mother
had
given
him
a
couple
of
neckcloths
,
and
carefully
hemmed
and
made
some
little
shirts
for
him
;
but
when
her
Eli
came
to
see
the
widow
,
they
were
replaced
by
much
finer
linen
.
He
had
little
jewelled
buttons
in
the
lawn
shirt
fronts
.
Her
humble
presents
had
been
put
aside
--
I
believe
Miss
Osborne
had
given
them
to
the
coachman
's
boy
.
Amelia
tried
to
think
she
was
pleased
at
the
change
.
Indeed
,
she
was
happy
and
charmed
to
see
the
boy
looking
so
beautiful
.
