The things we do!

The good gentleman did not frequent the parties of the juniors. He saw
that his presence rather silenced the young men; and left them to
themselves, confiding in Clive's parole, and went away to play his honest
rubber of whist at the Club. And many a time he heard the young fellows'
steps tramping by his bedchamber door, as he lay wakeful within, happy to
think his son was happy.


CHAPTER XVIII
New Companions

Clive used to give droll accounts of the young disciples at Gandish's,
who were of various ages and conditions, and in whose company the young
fellow took his place with that good temper and gaiety which have seldom
deserted him in life, and have put him at ease wherever his fate has led
him. He is, in truth, as much at home in a fine drawing-room as in a
public-house parlour; and can talk as pleasantly to the polite mistress
of the mansion, as to the jolly landlady dispensing her drinks from her
bar. Not one of the Gandishites but was after a while well inclined to
the young fellow; from Mr.


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