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In
the
company
of
this
gentleman
they
visited
all
the
principal
theatres
of
the
metropolis
;
knew
the
names
of
all
the
actors
from
Drury
Lane
to
Sadler
's
Wells
;
and
performed
,
indeed
,
many
of
the
plays
to
the
Todd
family
and
their
youthful
friends
,
with
West
's
famous
characters
,
on
their
pasteboard
theatre
.
Rowson
,
the
footman
,
who
was
of
a
generous
disposition
,
would
not
unfrequently
,
when
in
cash
,
treat
his
young
master
to
oysters
after
the
play
,
and
to
a
glass
of
rum-shrub
for
a
night-cap
.
We
may
be
pretty
certain
that
Mr.
Rowson
profited
in
his
turn
by
his
young
master
's
liberality
and
gratitude
for
the
pleasures
to
which
the
footman
inducted
him
.
A
famous
tailor
from
the
West
End
of
the
town
--
Mr.
Osborne
would
have
none
of
your
City
or
Holborn
bunglers
,
he
said
,
for
the
boy
(
though
a
City
tailor
was
good
enough
for
HIM
)
--
was
summoned
to
ornament
little
George
's
person
,
and
was
told
to
spare
no
expense
in
so
doing
.
So
,
Mr.
Woolsey
,
of
Conduit
Street
,
gave
a
loose
to
his
imagination
and
sent
the
child
home
fancy
trousers
,
fancy
waistcoats
,
and
fancy
jackets
enough
to
furnish
a
school
of
little
dandies
.
Georgy
had
little
white
waistcoats
for
evening
parties
,
and
little
cut
velvet
waistcoats
for
dinners
,
and
a
dear
little
darling
shawl
dressing-gown
,
for
all
the
world
like
a
little
man
.
He
dressed
for
dinner
every
day
,
"
like
a
regular
West
End
swell
,
"
as
his
grandfather
remarked
;
one
of
the
domestics
was
affected
to
his
special
service
,
attended
him
at
his
toilette
,
answered
his
bell
,
and
brought
him
his
letters
always
on
a
silver
tray
.
Georgy
,
after
breakfast
,
would
sit
in
the
arm-chair
in
the
dining-room
and
read
the
Morning
Post
,
just
like
a
grown-up
man
.
"
How
he
DU
dam
and
swear
,
"
the
servants
would
cry
,
delighted
at
his
precocity
.
Those
who
remembered
the
Captain
his
father
,
declared
Master
George
was
his
Pa
,
every
inch
of
him
.
He
made
the
house
lively
by
his
activity
,
his
imperiousness
,
his
scolding
,
and
his
good-nature
.
George
's
education
was
confided
to
a
neighbouring
scholar
and
private
pedagogue
who
"
prepared
young
noblemen
and
gentlemen
for
the
Universities
,
the
senate
,
and
the
learned
professions
:
whose
system
did
not
embrace
the
degrading
corporal
severities
still
practised
at
the
ancient
places
of
education
,
and
in
whose
family
the
pupils
would
find
the
elegances
of
refined
society
and
the
confidence
and
affection
of
a
home
.
"
It
was
in
this
way
that
the
Reverend
Lawrence
Veal
of
Hart
Street
,
Bloomsbury
,
and
domestic
Chaplain
to
the
Earl
of
Bareacres
,
strove
with
Mrs.
Veal
his
wife
to
entice
pupils
.
By
thus
advertising
and
pushing
sedulously
,
the
domestic
Chaplain
and
his
Lady
generally
succeeded
in
having
one
or
two
scholars
by
them
--
who
paid
a
high
figure
and
were
thought
to
be
in
uncommonly
comfortable
quarters
.
There
was
a
large
West
Indian
,
whom
nobody
came
to
see
,
with
a
mahogany
complexion
,
a
woolly
head
,
and
an
exceedingly
dandyfied
appearance
;
there
was
another
hulking
boy
of
three-and-twenty
whose
education
had
been
neglected
and
whom
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Veal
were
to
introduce
into
the
polite
world
;
there
were
two
sons
of
Colonel
Bangles
of
the
East
India
Company
's
Service
:
these
four
sat
down
to
dinner
at
Mrs.
Veal
's
genteel
board
,
when
Georgy
was
introduced
to
her
establishment
.
Georgy
was
,
like
some
dozen
other
pupils
,
only
a
day
boy
;
he
arrived
in
the
morning
under
the
guardianship
of
his
friend
Mr.
Rowson
,
and
if
it
was
fine
,
would
ride
away
in
the
afternoon
on
his
pony
,
followed
by
the
groom
.
The
wealth
of
his
grandfather
was
reported
in
the
school
to
be
prodigious
.
The
Rev.
Mr.
Veal
used
to
compliment
Georgy
upon
it
personally
,
warning
him
that
he
was
destined
for
a
high
station
;
that
it
became
him
to
prepare
,
by
sedulity
and
docility
in
youth
,
for
the
lofty
duties
to
which
he
would
be
called
in
mature
age
;
that
obedience
in
the
child
was
the
best
preparation
for
command
in
the
man
;
and
that
he
therefore
begged
George
would
not
bring
toffee
into
the
school
and
ruin
the
health
of
the
Masters
Bangles
,
who
had
everything
they
wanted
at
the
elegant
and
abundant
table
of
Mrs.
Veal
.
With
respect
to
learning
,
"
the
Curriculum
,
"
as
Mr.
Veal
loved
to
call
it
,
was
of
prodigious
extent
,
and
the
young
gentlemen
in
Hart
Street
might
learn
a
something
of
every
known
science
.
The
Rev.
Mr.
Veal
had
an
orrery
,
an
electrifying
machine
,
a
turning
lathe
,
a
theatre
(
in
the
wash-house
)
,
a
chemical
apparatus
,
and
what
he
called
a
select
library
of
all
the
works
of
the
best
authors
of
ancient
and
modern
times
and
languages
.
He
took
the
boys
to
the
British
Museum
and
descanted
upon
the
antiquities
and
the
specimens
of
natural
history
there
,
so
that
audiences
would
gather
round
him
as
he
spoke
,
and
all
Bloomsbury
highly
admired
him
as
a
prodigiously
well-informed
man
.
And
whenever
he
spoke
(
which
he
did
almost
always
)
,
he
took
care
to
produce
the
very
finest
and
longest
words
of
which
the
vocabulary
gave
him
the
use
,
rightly
judging
that
it
was
as
cheap
to
employ
a
handsome
,
large
,
and
sonorous
epithet
,
as
to
use
a
little
stingy
one
.
