remaining, and then sent him home. Then his aim was to save money for the
youngster. He was of a nature so uncontrollably generous, that to be sure
he spent five rupees where another would save them, and make a fine show
besides; but it is not a man's gifts or hospitalities that generally
injure his fortune. It is on themselves that prodigals spend most. And as
Newcome had no personal extravagances, and the smallest selfish wants;
could live almost as frugally as a Hindoo; kept his horses not to race
but to ride; wore his old clothes and uniforms until they were the
laughter of his regiment; did not care for show, and had no longer an
extravagant wife; he managed to lay by considerably out of his liberal
allowances, and to find himself and Clive growing richer every year.

"When Clive has had five or six years at school"--that was his scheme--
"he will be a fine scholar, and have at least as much classical learning
as a gentleman in the world need possess. Then I will go to England, and
we will pass three or four years together, in which he will learn to be
intimate with me, and, I hope, to like me. I shall be his pupil for Latin
and Greek, and try and make up for lost time. I know there is nothing
like a knowledge of the classics to give a man good breeding--Ingenuas
didicisse fideliter artes emollunt mores, nec sinuisse feros. I shall be
able to help him with my knowledge of the world, and to keep him out of
the way of sharpers and a pack of rogues who commonly infest young men. I
will make myself his companion, and pretend to no superiority; for,
indeed, isn't he my superior? Of course he is, with his advantages. He
hasn't been an idle young scamp as I was. And we will travel together,
first through England, Scotland, and Ireland, for every man should know
his own country, and then we will make the grand tour. Then, by the time
he is eighteen, he will be able to choose his profession. He can go into
the army, and emulate the glorious man after whom I named him; or if he
prefers the church, or the law, they are open to him; and when he goes to