The things we do!

Now this Bundelcund Banking Company, in the Colonel's eyes, was in
reality his son Clive. But for Clive there might have been a hundred
banking companies established, yielding a hundred per cent, in as many
districts of India, and Thomas Newcome, who had plenty of money for his
own wants, would never have thought of speculation. His desire was to see
his boy endowed with all the possible gifts of fortune. Had he built a
palace for Clive, and been informed that a roc's egg was required to
complete the decoration of the edifice, Tom Newcome would have travelled
to the world's end in search of the wanting article. To see Prince Clive
ride in a gold coach with a princess beside him, was the kind old
Colonel's ambition; that done, he would be content to retire to a garret
in the prince's castle, and smoke his cheroot there in peace. So the
world is made. The strong and eager covet honour and enjoyment for
themselves; the gentle and disappointed (once, they may have been strong
and eager, too) desire these gifts for their children.


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