There was, however, something of discrepancy between them as to matters of religion.

Mrs.Carmichael Smyth was disposed to the somewhat austere observance of the evangelical section of the Church.

Such, certainly, never became the case with her son.
There was disagreement on the subject, and probably unhappiness at intervals, but never, I think, quarrelling.

Thackeray's house was his mother's home whenever she pleased it, and the home also of his stepfather.
He was brought a child from India, and was sent early to the Charter House.

Of his life and doings there his friend and schoolfellow George Venables writes to me as follows; "My recollection of him, though fresh enough, does not furnish much material for biography.