commencement of our story--the then Mr Thorne of Ullathorne had made it
understood that he would no longer receive at his house his cousin
Henry, whom he regarded as a disgrace to the family.

Fathers are apt to be more lenient to their sons than uncles to their
nephews, or cousins to each other. Dr Thorne still hoped to reclaim
his black sheep, and thought that the head of his family showed an
unnecessary harshness in putting an obstacle in his way of doing so.
And if the father was warm in support of his profligate son, the young
medical aspirant was warmer in support of his profligate brother. Dr
Thorne, junior, was no roue himself, but perhaps, as a young man, he
had not sufficient abhorrence of his brother's vices. At any rate, he
stuck to him manfully; and when it was signified in the Close that
Henry's company was not considered desirable at Ullathorne, Dr Thomas
Thorne sent word to the squire that under such circumstances his visits
there would also cease.

This was not very prudent, as the young Galen had elected to establish
himself in Barchester, very mainly in expectation for the help which
his Ullathorne connexion would give him. This, however, in his anger
he failed to consider; he was never known, either in early or in middle
life, to consider in his anger those points which were probably best
worth his consideration. This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his
anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more
celerity than he could get angry words out of his mouth. With the
Ullathorne people, however, he did establish a quarrel sufficiently
permanent to be of vital injury to his medical prospects.

And then the father died, and the two brothers were left living
together with very little means between them. At this time there was