' The son, still more gallantly continuing the
tradition, entered the army, loaded himself with debt, was forced
to sell out, took refuge in the Marines, and was lost on the Dogger
Bank in the war-ship MINOTAUR. If he did not marry below him, like
his father, his sister, and a certain great-uncle William, it was
perhaps because he never married at all.
The second brother, Thomas, who was employed in the General Post-
Office, followed in all material points the example of Stephen,
married 'not very creditably,' and spent all the money he could lay
his hands on. He died without issue; as did the fourth brother,
John, who was of weak intellect and feeble health, and the fifth
brother, William, whose brief career as one of Mrs. Buckner's
satellites will fall to be considered later on. So soon, then, as
the MINOTAUR had struck upon the Dogger Bank, Stowting and the line
of the Jenkin family fell on the shoulders of the third brother,
Charles.
Facility and self-indulgence are the family marks; facility (to
judge by these imprudent marriages) being at once their quality and
their defect; but in the case of Charles, a man of exceptional
beauty and sweetness both of face and disposition, the family fault
had quite grown to be a virtue, and we find him in consequence the
drudge and milk-cow of his relatives.
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