She learnt Latin with the boys, she taught them to
play on the piano: she enraged old Lady Kew, the children's grandmother,
who prophesied that her daughter-in-law would make milksops of her sons,
to whom the old lady was never reconciled until after my lord's entry at
Christchurch, where he began to distinguish himself very soon after his
first term. He drove tandems, kept hunters, gave dinners, scandalised the
Dean, screwed up the tutor's door, and agonised his mother at home by his
lawless proceedings. He quitted the University after a very brief sojourn
at that seat of learning. It may be the Oxford authorities requested his
lordship to retire; let bygones be bygones. His youthful son, the present
Lord Walham, is now at Christchurch, reading with the greatest assiduity.
Let us not be too particular in narrating his father's unedifying frolics
of a quarter of a century ago.
Old Lady Kew, who, in conjunction with Mrs. Newcome, had made the
marriage between Mr. Brian Newcome and her daughter, always despised her
son-in-law; and being a frank, open person, uttering her mind always,
took little pains to conceal her opinion regarding him or any other
individual.
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