My father supported him at school, and 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.
Il se chargea des frais de son éducation au college et a Cambridge ; – aide inappréciable pour Mr. Wickham qui, toujours dans la gene par suite de l’extravagance de sa femme, se trouvait dans l’impossibilité de faire donner a son fils l’éducation d’un gentleman.