Ravenshoe, Vol. 2 of 2

Excerpt from RavenshoeRanford was what the young men of the day called an uncommon fast house. Fast enough, in truth. All downhill and no drag on. Welter soon defied his grandmother. For his father he cared nothing. Lord Ascot was so foolishly fond of the boy that he never contradicted him in anything, and used even to laugh when he was impudent to his grandmother, whom, to do Lord Ascot justice, he respected more than any living woman. Tutors were tried, Of whom Welter, by a happy combination of obstinacy and recklessness.