In the meantime an income of L600 a year brought with it to the young bachelor some very comfortable influence.
But the warmest and the pleasantest of all the congratulations which he received was from his dear friend Undy Scott.
'Ah, my boy,' said Undy, pressing his hand, 'you'll soon be one of us.

By the by, I want to put you up for the Downing; you should leave that Pythagorean: there's nothing to be got by it.' Now, the Downing was a political club, in which, however, politics had latterly become a good deal mixed.

But the Government of the day generally found there a liberal support, and recognized and acknowledged its claim to consideration..