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GS GRACE. . 15 “Don’t you be down on your luck, old man; it will be allright. Just wait a bit until I’ve had time to get into the saddle, and you'll see that I sha’n’t forget you. ’ As I afterwards found out, he really did not forget me during the three or four ensuing weeks, although l’am afraid I must confess that I forgot him: at all events, I did not think of him much or often. I did chance to hear, through the newspapers and from private sources, what his inheritance amounted to, and a very fine inheritance it sounded, notwithstanding the some- what ungenerous will of the late duke, who, as had been anticipated, was found to have bequeathed the entire London property as well as a goodly portion of his northern estates to Mr. Paul Gascoigne. However, my young friend got Hurstbourne Castle, together with the lands appertaining thereto, which were estimated to bring in an income sufficient (as it appeared to me) for the maintenance of a magnate of the first water. I saw no reason to pity him; and as I had at the mo- ment many and great reasons for pitying myself, I rele- rated him to one of those back shelves in my memory which I do not generally examine except when I can’t sleep at night. I suppose Uncle John must have wanted very much indeed to get rid of me, and, all things considered, I can’t say that I wonder at it ; but I still think that he might have attained his object without being so em- phatically disagreeable and so disagreeably emphatic. Perhaps it is easier to forgive great injuries than small ones ; perhaps it would not be true to say that my uncle ever inflicted any real injury, great or small, upon me ; yet even now when I am independent of him and Eomichoo m