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BY BRACEBKIDGE HEMYXG, AUTHOR OF "THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD," "ETON SCHOOL-DATS," " THE SEASON AT BRIGHTON," ETC, LOXDON: WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW. AND ALL BOOKSELLEES AND RAILWAY STATIONS. [All rights reserved.] LO^'DO^T: EOBK:; AND SO>7?, PRINTERS, PANCT.A" ROAOJ N.W. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGr: I. LAXDY'S .... I II. BACHELORS' OPIXIOX.S III. 8uBURBAx SOCIETY . 31 IV. CHERIE ST. AXGE 46 V. THE IxTERVfEW AT THE CLIT, 56 VI. LORD EKACKEX'S BLUXD::I; 64 VII. TREVELLIAX HAS HIS DUL'BT.S 71 VIII. OUT OF HIS RECKOXIXO 8r IX. CHERIE'S FLIGHT 91 X. How THE ^.IOXEV WEXT 109 XI. WITH XEW FRIEXDS . 119 XII. IT WAS THEIR FATE . 12S XIII. BEIIIXD HIS BACK 137 XIV. Do, PLEASE, PET ^lE . 147 THE MAN OF THE PERIOD. CHAPTER I. LAXDY'.S. LIFE at a private tutor's is not generally very event­ ful. It certainly ^vas not so at Mr. Landy's establish­ ment at Barnes. The dull routine of the studies to which the young gentlemen under his care were condemned, was only varied by an occasional run with the beagles in the autumn, a row on the river, a fragrant pipe, and a game of billiards at the nearest place of accommodation for that jiarticular mode of passing one's time, and a Avalk in Richmond Park iur tliose who were fond of ;;cer;ery and exerci.::e. lUr. Landy was considered a good coach. He had estab­ lished a reputation for sending men well up to their work to the universities, to civil service and army examination-^, and for fitting them generally for every v.alk in life, which chance, inclination, or the sweet •\^•ill of their parents marked out for them. He never advertised. That ^va3 low and far beneath him. His cor.iieclion v.as liood, and his house, a lame one, was B I THE MAN OF THE PERIOD. always full. The young men whose minds and morals lie was supposed to look after, were, many of them public-school boys, whose education, according to the Public Schools Commissioners, is always shamefully lif'glected, while their muscular Christianity was v\- disputable, and that was about all that could be said for them. The physical-force mania has increased won­ derfully of late years ; and though Landy did nothing lo check it, he told his pupils plainly, that he could imt pass them unless they gave him as much of their undivided attention as seemed fit and advisable to their growing minds. As a rule they were responsive to the appeal, because they could not be blind to their own interests. So they ground away at dead and living- languages and mathematics with an energy which con­ trasted strangely with the listless apathy which the )()nth of the day think it becoming to assume on (U'dinary occasions. They bought light literatui'e, how­ ever, recklessly; thinking its perusal a harmless iv- creation, and were great at the bookstall ;it the station, of which they were munificent jiatrons. A I'avourite amusement of theirs was to stare somewhat rudely at a pretty woman when they chanced to meet one; and if their ingenuity enabled them to find out a decent- looking shop-girl in any of the villages within a radius of five miles, they would rush to make absurd pur­ chases, and talk wildly to one another in the evening about her hair and eyes, Avitli the usual fervour of impetuous and gilded youth. In short, they were neither better nor worse than the nin of gentlemen's sons; and if they wore not brilliant, they were not verv vicioiU'. In the ]_H'e;inning of October, ;i vear or t^x) Jiiin, LANDY'S. 3 Mr. Landy's establishment was somewhat reduced; two men had gone up for the Indian Civil, and, strange to say, passed. Some had matriculated at Oxford; and one had perversely lost his life on an Alp. He always was fond of climbiiig. He Avould go up an apple-tree or a sanJ-hill, or even a painter's ladder at the side of a house, rather than not climb at all; and at last he came to grief, and hjs climbing was oAcr. There were not more than ten or a dozen at 3,Ioii- conibe House. Three of those who had been there longer than the others formed themselves into a clique. How is it that this sort of cliqueism will pervade the lives of the English, do wdiat they will, or go where they like? Their names ATcre Cook, .Vrden. and Viscount Bracken; the latter incorrigibly stujrM, but very geu- tiemanly. Some letters arrived in the evening, and one di­ rected to ^Matthew Arden was opened eagerly.