'
'So much as that! I knew that he had a few horses there.'
'It is not the money, but the absence of principle,--that a young
man should have no feeling that he ought to live within certain
prescribed means! Do you know what you have had from Mr Morton?'
'Not exactly, sir.'
'It is different with you. But a man, let him be who he may,
should live within certain means. As for your sister, I think she
will break my heart.' Silverbridge found it impossible to say
anything in answer to this. 'Are you going to church?' asked the
Duke.
'I was not thinking of doing so particularly.'
'Do you not ever go?'
'Yes;--sometimes. I will go with you now, if you like it, sir.'
'I had thought of going, but my mind is too much harassed. I do
not see why you should not go.'
But Silverbridge, though he had been willing to sacrifice his
morning to his father,--for it was, I fear, in that way that he
looked at it,--did not see any reason for performing a duty which
his father himself omitted. And there were various matters also
which harassed him.
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