Juvenile dukes, and sprouting earls, find their duties and their places as easily as embryo clergymen and sucking barristers.

Provision is made for their peculiar positions: and, though they may possibly go astray, they have a fair chance given to them of running within the posts.

The same may be said of such youths as Frank Gresham.

There are enough of them in the community to have made it necessary that their well-being should be a matter of care and forethought.

But there are but few men turned out in the world in the position of Louis Scatcherd; and, of those few, but very few enter the real battle of life under good auspices.
Poor Sir Roger, though he had hardly time with all his multitudinous railways to look into this thoroughly, had a glimmering of it.