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Pride-and-Prejudice 280

The document discusses a man named Mr. Wickham and the narrator's late father's relationship with him. The father wanted to help Mr. Wickham's career and education, leaving him money and recommending him for advancement. However, the narrator observes flaws in Mr. Wickham's character that could hinder his success.

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Pride-and-Prejudice 280

The document discusses a man named Mr. Wickham and the narrator's late father's relationship with him. The father wanted to help Mr. Wickham's career and education, leaving him money and recommending him for advancement. However, the narrator observes flaws in Mr. Wickham's character that could hinder his success.

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afterwards at Cambridge--most important assistance, as his own

father, always poor from the extravagance of his wife, would

have been unable to give him a gentleman's education. My

father was not only fond of this young man's society, whose

manner were always engaging; he had also the highest opinion of

him, and hoping the church would be his profession, intended to

provide for him in it. As for myself, it is many, many years since

I first began to think of him in a very different manner. The

vicious propensities--the want of principle, which he was careful

to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape

the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with

himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded

moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have. Here again shall

give you pain--to what degree you only can tell. But whatever

may be the sentiments which Mr. Wickham has created, a

suspicion of their nature shall not prevent me from unfolding

his real character--it adds even another motive.

"My excellent father died about five years ago; and his attachment

to Mr. Wickham was to the last so steady, that in his will he

particularly recommended it to me, to promote his advancement in

the best manner that his profession might allow--and if he took

orders, desired that a valuable family living might be his as soon

as it became vacant. There was also a legacy of one thousand

pounds. His own father did not long survive mine, and within half

a year from these events, Mr. Wickham wrote to inform me that,

having finally resolved against taking orders, he hoped I should

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