I am afraid he learnt more music than
classics up at that place.'
'Can the tutoring be managed!'
'I suppose a hundred out of that thousand will do it.'
'Is that thousand to go like the famous birthday five?'
'Five hundred is to be put into the business; but the rest I meant to
keep in reserve for such things as this.'
'If all are to be helped at this rate, your reserve will soon come to
an end.'
'Perhaps so; but I have always looked on Clement as my own
substitute. Indeed, I held that hope out to my father, when it
distressed him that I should give it up. So Clem is pretty well
settled, thank you. Besides I am not afraid of his not going on well
here; but I do believe Fulbert will do the better for being more
independent, only it seems to me too much to let you undertake for
us.'
'They are all my charge,' said Mr. Audley; 'and as I am leaving you
the whole burthen of the rest, and my poor little godson is not
likely to want such care, you need have no scruple. One of the
Somervilles is going out to a Government office at Albertstown, and
perhaps may put me in the way of doing something for him.'
Felix mused a moment, then said, 'The only doubt in my mind would be
whether, if it suited you equally, it might not be an opening for
Edgar.
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