The boy never got into a scrape, or won a prize, or wanted _a tip_, or coveted a book, but what Cleveland was the first to know of it.

Fortunately, too, Ernest manifested by times tastes which the graceful author thought similar to his own.

He early developed very remarkable talents, and a love for learning--though these were accompanied with a vigour of life and soul--an energy--a daring--which gave Cleveland some uneasiness, and which did not appear to him at all congenial with the moody shyness of an embryo genius, or the regular placidity of a precocious scholar.

Meanwhile the relation between father and son was rather a singular one.

Mr.Maltravers had overcome his first, not unnatural, repugnance to the innocent cause of his irremediable loss.