If you go to Ashbridge it is completely interrupted.

My friends are here too; everything I have is here." His father seemed to swell a little; he appeared to fill the room.
"And all my duties lie at Ashbridge," he said.

"As you know, I am not of the type of absentee landlords.

It is quite impossible that I should spend these months in idleness in town.

I have never done such a thing yet, nor, I may say, would our class hold the position they do if we did.