He had always declared it was a shame to give Launcelot every thing, and William and himself scarce a crumb off the family loaf.

To his eldest brother, as his eldest brother, he had declined to give "honor and obedience." "William is a far finer fellow," he said one day to his mother; "far more worthy to follow father than Launcie is.

If there is any particular merit in keeping up the old seat and name, for goodness' sake let father choose the best of us to do it!" For such revolutionary and disrespectful sentiments he had been frequently in disgrace; and the end of the disputing had been his own expatriation, and the founding of a family of East-Indian Sandals.
He heard Julius with approval.

"I think you have a very good plan," he said.

"Harry Sandal, with his play-singing wife, would have a very bad time of it among the Dalesmen.