No;--it was for no love of lucre that he wished to be Bishop of Barchester.
He was his father's only child, and his father had left him great wealth.

His preferment brought him in nearly three thousand a year.
The bishopric, as cut down by the Ecclesiastical Commission, was only five.

He would be a richer man as archdeacon than he could be as bishop.

But he certainly did desire to play first fiddle; he did desire to sit in full lawn sleeves among the peers of the realm; and he did desire, if the truth must out, to be called "My lord" by his reverend brethren.
His hopes, however, were they innocent or sinful, were not fated to be realized, and Dr.Proudie was consecrated Bishop of Barchester..