n
Exeter, admitted, without question, to be one of the county set, and
still at variance with her brother's family. Except to Hugh, she had
never spoken a word to one of them since her brother's death. When
the money came into her hands, she at that time being over forty
and her nephew being then just ten years old, she had undertaken to
educate him, and to start him in the world. We know how she had kept
her word, and how and why she had withdrawn herself from any further
responsibility in the matter.

And in regard to this business of starting the young man she had been
careful to let it be known that she would do no more than start him.
In the formal document, by means of which she had made the proposal
to her brother, she had been careful to let it be understood that
simple education was all that she intended to bestow upon him,--"and
that only," she had added, "in the event of my surviving till his
education be completed." And to Hugh himself she had declared that
any allowance which she made him after he was called to the Bar,
was only made in order to give him room for his foot, a spot of
ground from whence to make his first leap. We know how he made that
leap, infinitely to the disgust of his aunt, who, when he refused
obedience to her in the matter of withdrawing from the Daily Record,
immediately withdrew from him, not only her patronage and assistance,
but even her friendship and acquaintance. This was the letter which
she wrote to him--

I don't think that writing radical stuff for a penny
newspaper is a respectable occupation for a gentleman, and
I will have nothing to do with it. If you choose to do
such work, I cannot help it; but it was not for such that
I sent you to Harrow and Oxford, nor yet up to London and
paid L100 a year to Mr. Lambert. I think you are treating
me badly, but that is nothing to your bad treatment of
yourself. You need not trouble yourself to answer this,
unless you are prepared to say that you will not write any
more stuff for that penny newspaper. Only I wish to be
understood. I will have no connection that I can help,
and no acquaintance at all, with radical scribblers and
incendiaries.

JEMIMA STANBURY.

The Close, Exeter, April 15, 186--.

Hugh Stanbury had answered this, thanking his aunt for past favours,
and explaining to her,--or striving to do so,--that he felt it to be
his duty to earn his bread, as a means of earn