The two
young men therefore slunk out of the house, and as there was no
breakfasting at the Beargarden they went to his hotel. They were
both rather gloomy, but the elder brother was the more sad of the
two. 'I'd give anything I have in the world,' he said, 'that you
hadn't come at all.'
'Things have been so unfortunate!'
'Why the deuce wouldn't you go when I told you?'
'Who on earth would have thought that they'd have been so
punctual? They never are punctual on the Great Eastern. It was an
infernal shame. I think I shall go at once to Harnage and tell him
about it.' Mr Harnage was Lord Gerald's tutor.
'But you have been in ever so many rows before.'
'Well;--I've been gated, and once when they'd gated me, I came
right upon Harnage on the bridge at King's'
'What sort of fellow is he?'
'He used to be good-natured. Now he has taken ever so many
crotchets into his head. It was he who began all this about none
of the men going to the Derby.'
'Did you ask him yourself for leave?'
'Yes; and when I told him about your owning Prime Minister he got
savage and declared that was the very reason why I shouldn't go.
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