But when I saw how your tastes seemed to lead you, I began to fear that there could be no career for you here.

On such a property as Babington an eldest son may vegetate like his father before him, and may succeed to it in due time, before he has wasted everything, and may die as he had lived, useless, but having to the end all the enjoyments of a swine.' 'You are severe upon my cousins, sir.' 'I say what I think.

But you would not have done that.

And though you are not industrious, you are far too active and too clever for such a life.

Now you are probably in earnest as to the future.' 'Yes, I am certainly in earnest.' 'And though you are going to risk your capital in a precarious business, you will only be doing what is done daily by enterprising men.