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sell or let my house and balance
my budget again – and meantime
I stay here & give Vigant a home –
I may as well have that pleasure
& save £100 a year instead of paying
it for his board to his Tutor a Gentlemans
Education in England is frightfully
Costly – no one knows how costly
till they prove it – nor yet the number
of young [indecipherable] – in the terrible
struggle for life on small means here
For instance a young fellow I know
Son of a man of excellent old family
thinks himself happy to get a stool
in a Bank at £60 a year . and he has
no more – to pay rent in London clothed as a
gentleman, and [indecipherable]. – It is a hard
struggle for a tall delicate boy of 19
and he is half starved & I believe
will succumb. he is one amongst
thousands well born & bred young men
who have been half educated through
want of means