He laughed wildly: he described a fight at which he had been present.

It was not possible that such a castaway as this should continue in a house where her two little cherubs were growing up in innocence and grace.
The boy had a great fancy for India; and Orme's History, containing the exploits of Clive and Lawrence, was his favourite book of all in his father's library.

Being offered a writership, he scouted the idea of a civil appointment, and would be contented with nothing but a uniform.

A cavalry cadetship was procured for Thomas Newcome; and the young man's future career being thus determined, and his stepmother's unwilling consent procured, Mr.Newcome thought fit to send his son to a tutor for military instruction, and removed him from the London school, where in truth he had made but very little progress in the humaner letters.

The lad was placed with a professor who prepared young men for the army, and received rather a better professional education than fell to the lot of most young soldiers of his day.