text:  the vicar; no ties of home or kindred no memories of boyhood no glow of early recollections touch the case-hardened parasite of college growth; and when he has banished his younger brother to Australia under pretext of making his fortune married both his sisters and erected a cheap monument to the linen-draper's widow as the "relict of the late Thomas Thompson _Esquire_ " he waits in peaceful expectation of a college living with the consciousness of having done his duty by his relations and delivered himself from a drag upon his new career