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The bachelor looked up and stared in utter astonishment ' I don ' t quite understand you , nephew , and I think you have misunderstood me ; I mean that you should be thinking what will be the best thing to help you to make your way in the world ; or ,
perhaps , it is better to say at once that I have thou ght for you , and saved you the trouble of deciding ; and that , as I see by the papers that many young men have gone to India and risen in the world , ( he did not dare hint at the whole glory of his
anticipations , ) and as you are as likely a young man to do this , if you choose to try , as any one I know , with your own attainments , and the property I possess , and the interest I can make , I have settled to purchase a cadetship for you at the earliest opportunity ; and will give you a capital outfit and everything needful . And as I have no doubt that your tutor has instructed you in good staunch principles , that you will be prevented from getting into
any extravagances which might otherwise hinder your doing all you can to add to your own honour and wealth , I have also no doubt that eventually I shall look upon you with pride , as one who has added fresh lustre to the name of Brandon . ' For a moment the bachelor forgot everything else in wonder at his own eloquence ; it was for him a momentary gleam of inspiration . The next instant he paused for answer , or rather
approbation , from his nephew . Walter , during the harangue , had had time to recover from his first astonishment , had gathered enough to understand his uncle ' s meaning , and had determined to answer cooll y and courageously . ' I am sorry , my dear sir , to disappoint you ; I have long made up my mind that it would be impossible for me to go into the army . I never will voluntarily enter into a service that stamps a man a
slave ; that obliges him to wear a livery , and that in a service that at times appears to me little better than murder ; that compels him to draw his sword and sheathe his conscience ; and all at the command of another whose order he dares not disobey , ' ' What folly is this , sir V ' Truth , uncle , simple truth /
' What , I suppose your tutor s been making you pious , and you want to go into the church V and the bachelor thought of a prospective bishopric , but with such visible discontent that it almost amounted to actual dislike . ' My tutor has taught me a better lesson , uncle ; he left the university without taking an honour , though his high talent might , with ease , have earned it for him , because he would not lay the guilt of perjury upon his soul by subscribing to articles wnich he did not believe . *
' The law ! so it is to bo the law , eh ? ' and then a splendid vision of future greatness uprose to the eyes of Humphrey ' s excited imagination— ' Walter Lord Brandon , Lord High Chancellor of England , Defender of the Faith . No , faith ; that ' s not
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/30/
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