Poor Bullock would
have raised the sum fast enough, and thought nothing of it.
Harry never said how much of his own funds from Boola Boola had
supplemented Eustace's outlay; he did not even say how much better it
was to be a good landlord than a man about town; all he did was to
growl forth to his spoilt child, "There'll be more forthcoming next
year."
Eustace protested that he did not believe it, and Harold replied, "No
legacy duty--no stock to purchase--Hydriots' dividend--"
It did not check the murmur, and Eustace sulked all the rest of the
day; indeed, this has always seemed to me to have been the first
little rift in his adherence to his cousin, but at that time his
dependence was so absolute, and his power of separate action so
small, that he submitted to the decree even while he grumbled; and
when he found that Lord Erymanth viewed it as very undesirable for a
young man to come up to London without either home or business, or
political views, took to himself great credit for the wise decision.
Indeed, Lord Erymanth did invite us all for a fortnight to his great
old mansion in Piccadilly to see the Exhibition, and, as he solemnly
told me, "to observe enough of our institutions as may prepare my
young friends for future life." Even Dora was asked, by special
entreaty from Viola, who undertook to look after her--rather too
boldly, considering that Di--i.
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