Don't ever forget that the boy's mother is Mary Barclay; she has bred most of the wolf out of him.

And in the end her blood will tell." And now observe John Barclay laying the footing stones of his fortune.
He put every dollar he could get into town lots, paying for all he bought and avoiding mortgages.

Also he joined Colonel Culpepper in putting the College Heights upon the market.

"For what," explained the colonel, when the propriety of using the name for his addition was questioned, when no college was there nor any prospect of a college for years to come--"what is plainer to the prophetic eye than that time will bring to this magnificent city an institution of learning worthy of our hopes?
I have noticed," added the colonel, waving his cigar broadly about him, "that learning is a shy goddess; she has to be coaxed--hence on these empyrean heights we have provided for a seat of learning; therefore College Heights.

Look at the splendid vista, the entrancing view, in point of fact." It was the large white plumes dancing in the colonel's prophetic eyes.