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Ashed out of Lord Buckram, and he was birched with perfect impartiality.
Even there, however, a select band of sucking tuft-hunters followed him.
Young Croesus lent him three-and-twenty bran-new sovereigns out of his
father's bank. Young Snaily did his exercises for him, and tried 'to
know him at home;' but Young Bull licked him in a fight of fifty-five
minutes, and he was caned several times with great advantage for not
sufficiently polishing his master Smith's shoes. Boys are not ALL
toadies in the morning of life. But when he went to the University,
crowds of toadies sprawled over him. The tutors toadied him. The fellows
in hall paid him great clumsy compliments. The Dean never remarked his
absence from Chapel, or heard any noise issuing from his rooms. A number
of respectable young fellows, (it is among the respectable, the Baker
Street class, that Snobbishness flourishes, more than among any set of
people in England)--a number of these clung to him like leeches. There
was no end now to Croesus's loans of money; and Buckram couldn't ride
out with the hounds, but Snaily (a timid creature by nature) was in the
field, and would take any leap at which his friend chose to ride. Young
Rose came up to the same College, having been kept back for that express
purpose by his father. He spent a quarter's allowance in giving Buckram
a single dinner; but he knew there was always pardon for him for
extravagance in such a cause; and a ten-pound note always came to him
from home when he mentioned Buckram's name in a letter. What wild
visions entered the brains of Mrs. Podge and Miss Podge, the wife and
daughter of the Principal of Lord Buckram's College, I don't know, but
that reverend old gentleman was too profound a flunkey by nature ever
for one minute to think that a child of his could marry a nobleman. He
therefore hastened on his daughter's union with Professor Crab. When
Lord Buckram, after taking his honorary degree, (for Alma Mater is a
Snob, too, and truckles to a Lord like the rest,)--when Lord Buckram
went abroad to finish his education, you all know what dangers he ran,
and what numbers of caps were set at him. La