text:  The time arrived however when it became necessary to remove the little boy from the sole care of menials and to commence the rudiments of his education; and at that period Mr Lyle the brother of the deceased Lady Clynton finding the aversion of the father towards the poor innocent cause of the mother's death still more strongly rooted by time and his whole paternal affections centred and lavished upon his eldest born had taken the child to his home and being himself childless had treated and as it were adopted the boy as his own son