This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVIII. Heathcote's Career. Heathoote Mountford went with his cousins to London, and when he had taken them to their house, returned to his chambers in the Albany. They were very nice rooms. I do not know why an unmarried man's lodging should be called chambers, but it does not make them at all different from other rooms which are not dignified by that name. They were very comfortable, but not very orderly, with numbers of books about, and a boot or two now and then straying where it had no right to be, but also with the necessary curiosities and prettinesses which are now part of the existence of every well-bred person, though these were not shown off to the full advantage, but lost among a good deal of litter scattered here and there. He was not a man who put his hest foot foremost in any way, but let his treasures lie about, and permitted bis own capacities and high qualities to go to rust under the outside covering of indifference and do-nothingness. It had never been necessary to liirn to do anytbing. He had very little ambition, and whatever zeal for enjoyment had been in his life, had been satisfied and was over.. He had wandered over a great part of the earth, and noticed many things in a languid way, and then he had come home and gone to his chambers, and, unpacking the treasures which, like everybody else, he had taken some trouble to ' pick up' here and there, suffered them to lie about among all sorts of trifling things. He had Edward to care for, his younger brother, who made a rush upon him now and then, from scbool first, and tben from Sandhurst, always wanting money, and much indulgence for his peccadilloes and stupidities: but Do one else who took any interest in himself or his possessions: and Edward liked a cigar far better than a...