There is nothing to be ashamed of, in accepting such a post.
"As for the marquis, as he has never been friendly with us, it does not matter.

He is, I have heard, a very tough sort of man; and my father is not likely to survive him.

But I do not think it would be fair to Geoffrey, when he comes into his peerage, that anyone should be able to say that he has a brother who is porter, in a mercantile house at Alexandria.

We have never got on very well together.

The fact that he was heir to a title spoilt him.