Wellington: A Personal History by Hibbert Christopher

Author:Hibbert, Christopher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

Douro’s behaviour in his father’s eyes was particularly reprehensible. He was ‘very much disappointed’ in him.

Ld. Douro went abroad with him this year [Mrs Arbuthnot recorded] & he thinks that he shewed no curiosity or eagerness about any thing. During the whole month they were absent he did nothing and slept almost the whole way in the carriage … The Duke says he is listless & indifferent & does nothing but ‘loll on a sofa and chatter’. I think the Duke judges him too severely. He is but 18, just let loose from school, falling in love with every woman he gets near … No longer forced to study, he is not yet man enough to do it of his own accord. But he is remarkably gentlemanlike & pleasing, very sensible in his conversation, and I believe I am prejudiced in his favour because he is so wonderfully like the Duke not only in face, but in every action … I have understood the Duke himself was not a clever boy and, besides that, he must not expect that a young man born in the highest rank & heir to a princely fortune will exert himself & turn all his talents to account in the same way that he, a younger brother without fortune, did.23

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