In the completion of which little last success, however, some slight family dissent had showed itself.
The Honourable John, the third son, was also at Courcy.

He had as yet taken to himself no wife, and as he had not hitherto made himself conspicuously useful in any special walk of life his family were beginning to regard him as a burden.

Having no income of his own to save, he had not copied his brother's virtue of parsimony; and, to tell the truth plainly, had made himself so generally troublesome to his father, that he had been on more than one occasion threatened with expulsion from the family roof.

But it is not easy to expel a son.

Human fledglings cannot be driven out of the nest like young birds.