"But only to think of it," Grandpapa would go on to himself in the privacy of his own room, "mountain children can be brought down and set into schools, and the Van Ruypen money do the old lady some good,--and there is Pip,--see what she has got there,--and nobody to interfere with what she'll spend on him. And I--I am balked the very first thing. And I did so mean to do well by Ben; dear, dear!"