ts or hospitalities that
generally injure his fortune. It is on themselves that prodigals spend
most. And as Newcome had no personal extravagances, and the smallest
selfish wants; could live almost as frugally as a Hindoo; kept his
horses not to race but to ride; wore his old clothes and uniforms until
they were the laughter of his regiment; did not care for show, and had
no longer an extravagant wife; he managed to lay by considerably out
of his liberal allowances, and to find himself and Clive growing richer
every year.

"When Clive has had five or six years at school"--that was his
scheme--"he will be a fine scholar, and have at least as much classical
learning as a gentleman in the world need possess. Then I will go to
England, and we will pass three or four years together, in which he will
learn to be intimate with me, and, I hope, to like me. I shall be his
pupil for Latin and Greek, and try and make up for lost time. I know
there is nothing like a knowledge of the classics to give a man good
breeding--Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollunt mores, nec
sinuisse feros. I shall be able to help him with my knowledge of the
world, and to keep him out of the way of sharpers and a pack of rogues
who commonly infest young men. I will make myself his companion, and
pretend to no superiority; for, indeed, isn't he my superior? Of course
he is, with his advantages. He hasn't been an idle young scamp as I
was. And we will travel together, first through England, Scotland, and
Ireland, for every man should know his own country, and then we will
make the grand tour. Then, by the time he is eighteen, he will be able
to choose his profession. He can go into the army, and emulate the
glorious man after whom I named him; or if he prefers the church, or the
law, they are open to him; and when he goes to the university, by which
time I shall be in all probability a major-general, I can come back to
India for a few years, and return by the time he has a wife and a home
for his old father; or if I die I shall have done the best for him, and
my boy will be left with the best education, a tolerable small fortune,
and the blessing of his old father."

Such were the plans of our kind schemer. How fondly he dwelt on them,
how affectionately he wrote of them to his boy! How he read books
of travels and looked over the maps of Europe! and said, "Rome, sir,
glorious Rome; it won't be very long, Major, before my boy and I see
the Colosseu