You haven't heard about Gerald ?" "About your brother ?" "Yes--you haven't heard ?" "Not a word.

I hope there is no misfortune." "But indeed there is,--a most terrible misfortune." Then he told the whole story.

How Gerald had been kept in London, and how he had gone down to Cambridge,--all in vain; how his father had taken the matter to heart, telling him that he had ruined his brother; and how he, in consequence, had determined not to go to the races.

"Then he said," continued Silverbridge, "that his children between them would bring him to his grave." "That was terrible." "Very terrible." "But what did he mean by that ?" asked Lady Mabel, anxious to hear something about Lady Mary and Tregear.
"Well; of course what I did at Oxford made him unhappy; and now there is this affair of Gerald's." "He did not allude to your sister ?" "Yes he did.

You have heard of all that.