The things we do!

His friend J. J. worked every day and all day. Many a
time the steady little student remarked his patron's absence, and no
doubt gently remonstrated with him, but when Clive did come to his work
he executed it with remarkable skill and rapidity; and Ridley was too
fond of him to say a word at home regarding the shortcomings of the
youthful scapegrace. Candid readers may sometimes have heard their friend
Jones's mother lament that her darling was working too hard at college:
or Harry's sisters express their anxiety lest his too rigorous attendance
in chambers (after which he will persist in sitting up all night reading
those dreary law books which cost such an immense sum of money) should
undermine dear Henry's health; and to such acute persons a word is
sufficient to indicate young Mr. Clive Newcome's proceedings. Meanwhile
his father, who knew no more of the world than Harry's simple sisters or
Jones's fond mother, never doubted that all Clive's doings were right,
and that his boy was the best of boys.


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