"Or at least not to grieve him." "That is it.

He has got over the affair about me.

As I'm the eldest son I've got into Parliament, and he thinks perhaps that all has been forgotten.

An eldest son may, I fancy, be a greater ass than his younger brother." The Master could not but smile as he thought of the selection which had been made of a legislator.

"But if Gerald is sent down, I don't know how he'll get over it." And now the tears absolutely rolled down the young man's face, so that he was forced to wipe them from his eyes.
The Master was much moved.