The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 20: what you’re looking at

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REYNOLDS’ WORKS CHAPTER I. THE BROTHERS Ir was in the middle of the year 1824, that two brothers were entered as graduates at one of the colleges of Oxford University. Their name was Vivian; they belonged to the noble family of Viviandale, but as their father was a junior scion thereof, his pecuniary means were rather limited. The Honourable Mr. Vivian, who was a widower, had but these two sons, and he hoped by giving them a collegiate education, to fit them for such professions as they might re- spectively be led by taste or opportunity to adopt, and in which the family interest was likely to push them on. They were two handsome youths, — reflecting in their own persons the masculine beauty of a fine and haughty race, — with dis- positions naturally good, but nevertheless already somewhat warped by a fond father’s too great indulgence, as well as by the influences of that sphere of life in which they were born, and in the midst of which they had been caressed, petted, and flattered. At the time when they entered Oxford University, Hugh, the elder, was in the opening of his twenty-first year, Ber- tram, the younger, a little past eighteen. They were of equal stature, but Hugh was more strongly and stoutly built than his brother, not merely because his additional two years had given to his form more manly developments, but because the younger was naturally of a more slender and more gracefully symmetrical figure. Though it was impossible not to be struck by the haughtily handsome 1 com (@) IDoOOks (E(0)