Dr Robarts was a man who thought much of the breath of peers and
peeresses, and was by no means inclined to throw away any advantage
which might arise to his child from such a friendship. When,
therefore, the young lord was sent to Harrow, Mark Robarts went
there also.

That the lord and his friend often quarrelled, and occasionally
fought,--the fact even that for a period of three months they never
spoke to each other--by no means interfered with the doctor's
hopes. Mark again and again stayed a fortnight at Framley Court,
and Lady Lufton always wrote about him in the highest terms. And
then the lads went together to Oxford, and here Mark's good fortune
followed him, consisting rather in the highly respectable manner in
which he lived, than in any wonderful career of collegiate
success. His family was proud of him, and the doctor was always
ready to talk of him to his patients; not because he was a
prize-man, and had gotten a scholarship, but on account of the
excellence of his general conduct. He lived with the best set--he
incurred no debts--he was fond of society, but able to avoid low
society--liked his glass of wine, but was never known to be drunk;
and above all things, was one of the most popular men in the
University. Then came the question of a profession for the young
Hyperion, and on this subject Dr Robarts was invited himself to go
over to Framley Court to discuss the matter with Lady Lufton.
Dr Robarts returned with a very strong conception that the Church
was the profession best suited to his son.

Lady Lufton had not sent for Dr Robarts all the way from Exeter for
nothing. The living of Framley was in the gift of Lady Lufton's
family, and the next presentation would be in Lady Lufton's hands,