Lord Hampstead, though he would not go into Parliament or belong to any London Club, or walk about the streets with a chimney-pot hat, or perform any of his public functions as a young nobleman should do, had, nevertheless, his own amusements and his own extravagances. In the matter of money he was placed outside his father's liberality,—who was himself inclined to be liberal enough,—by the fact that he had inherited a considerable portion of his maternal¹ grandfather's fortune. It might almost be said truly of him that money was no object to him. It was not that he did not often talk about money and think about money. He was very prone² to do so, saying that money was the most important factor in the world's justices and injustices³. But he was so fortunately circumstanced as to be able to leave money out of his own personal consideration, never being driven by the want of it to deny himself anything, or tempted⁴ by a superabundance to expenditure⁵ which did not otherwise approve itself to him. To give 10s. or 20s. a bottle for wine because somebody pretended that it was very fine, or ￡300 for a horse when one at a ￡100 would do his work for him, was altogether below his philosophy. By his father's lodge⁶ gate there ran an omnibus up to town which he would often use, saying that an omnibus with company was better than a private carriage with none. He was wont⁷ to be angry with himself in that he employed a fashionable tailor, declaring that he incurred⁸ unnecessary expense merely to save himself the trouble of going elsewhere. In this, however, it may be thought that there was something of pretence¹⁰, as he was no doubt conscious of good looks, and aware probably that a

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