'It's all up,' said he, chucking down his cap, striving to be at
his ease. 'I may pack up and go--just where I please. He says that
on no account will he have anything more to do with me. I asked
him what I was to do, and he said that the Governor had better
take my name off the books of the college. I did ask whether I
couldn't go over to Maclean.'
'Who is Maclean?'
'One of the other tutors. But the brute only smiled.'
'He thought you meant it for chaff.'
'Well;--I suppose I did mean to show him that I was not going to be
exterminated by him. He will write to the Governor today. And you
will have to talk to the Governor.'
Yes! As Lord Silverbridge went back that afternoon to London he
thought very much of that talking to the Governor! Never yet had
he been able to say anything very pleasant to 'the Governor.' He
had himself been always in disgrace at Eton, and had been sent
away from Oxford. He had introduced Tregear into the family, which
of all the troubles perhaps was the worst. He had changed his
politics. He had spent more money than he ought to have done, and
now at this very moment must ask for a large sum.
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