In the case of Piers, he decided to disregard the boy's seeming qualifications, and, after having him schooled abroad for the sake of modern languages, to put him early into commerce.

If Piers were marked out for better things, this discipline could do him no harm.

And to all appearances, the course had been a wise one.

Piers had as yet given no cause for complaint.

In wearying of trade, in aiming at something more liberal, he claimed no more than his rights.
With silent satisfaction, Jerome watched the boy's endeavours, his heart warming when he received one of those well-worded and dutiful, yet by no means commonplace letters, which came from Geneva and from London.