There was no end now to Croesus's loans
of money; and Buckram couldn't ride out with the hounds, but Snaily (a
timid creature by nature) was in the field, and would take any leap at
which his friend chose to ride. Young Rose came up to the same College,
having been kept back for that express purpose by his father. He spent a
quarter's allowance in giving Buckram a single dinner; but he knew
there was always pardon for him for extravagance in such a cause; and a
ten-pound note always came to him from home when he mentioned Buckram's
name in a letter. What wild visions entered the brains of Mrs. Podge
and Miss Podge, the wife and daughter of the Principal of Lord Buckram's
College, I don't know, but that reverend old gentleman was too profound
a flunkey by nature ever for one minute to think that a child of his
could marry a nobleman. He therefore hastened on his daughter's union
with Professor Crab.
When Lord Buckram, after taking his honorary degree, (for Alma Mater is
a Snob, too, and truckles to a Lord like the rest,)--when Lord Buckram
went abroad to finish his education, you all know what dangers he ran,
and what numbers of caps were set at him. Lady Leach and her daughters
followed him from Paris to Rome, and from Rome to Baden-Baden;
Miss Leggitt burst into tears before his face when he announced his
determination to quit Naples, and fainted on the neck of her mamma:
Captain Macdragon, of Macdragonstown, County Tipperary, called upon
him to 'explene his intintions with respect to his sisther, Miss Amalia
Macdragon, of Macdragonstown,' and proposed to shoot him unless he
married that spotless and beautiful young creature, who was afterwards
led to the altar by Mr.
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