"  He  has  a  son,  sir,  who  is  a  servitor,
and  a  servitor  at  a  small  oolite,"
he  would  say.  "  How  cotdd  yoa,
niy  dear  sir,  think  of  giving  the
reversion  of  Hackton  to  such  a  low-
bred ci


I  should  now  speak  of  my  other
son,  at  least  my  Lady  Lyndon's, — I
mean  the  Viscount  JBultingdon.  I
kept  him  in  Lreland  for  some  yeara^
under  the  guardianship  of  my  mo-
ther,  whom  I  had  installed  at  Castle
Lyndon ;  and  great,  I  promise  you,
was  her  state  in  that  occupation,  and
prodigious  the  good  soul's  ntlendonr
and  haughty  btSring.  With  all  her
oddities  the  Castle  Lyndon  estate  ina
the  best  managed  of  all  onr  po«-
sessions;  the  rents  were  excellentlj
paid,  the  charges  of  getting  than  in
smaller  than  they  would  have  been
under  the  management  of  any  stew-
ard. It  was  astonishing  what  smftll
eipcoses  the  good  widow  incurred,
although  she  kept  up  the  dignity  of
the  two  families,  as  she  would  say.
She  had  a  set  of  domestics  to  attend


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589


dean  and  tielit;  the  iVirnitnre  and
gardens  in  the  hest  repair;  and,  in
our  occasional  visits  to  Ireland,  we
never  found  any  house  we  visited
in  such  good  condition  as  our  own.
