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trade. Mr. Glover alludes to this in his diary (Mareh 10, 1834) in char- 
acteristic language, as follows : 
Mr. C. this evening gave me my indentures of apprenticeship to Thompson, Scarf 
& Co., by which I find that £300 of my money is gone forever, merely to Learn the 
•• art and mystery " of a stuff merchant, a mystery I hope never to practice. 
What other plans for his future may have been made for him, or were 
entertained b}* himself at that time, are uot known, though his aunt was 
once very desirious that he should study for the ministry. In after-life 
he frequently referred to this with satirical allusions to having been cut 
out for the clergy ; and in a letter written to friends in England many 
years after coming to America it is amusing to find a joking refereuce to 
his clerical education. In his commercial life, with its exacting routine. 
though utterly at variance with every instinct of his nature, he fulfilled 
the duties which the position entailed upon him conscientiously and 
with assiduity as long as he continued in it. The early discipline did 
him no harm, if, indeed, it did not fit him for the life of most exacting 
routine of his later years, to which, though self-imposed, he gave the 
best years of his existence. 
But there suddenly came an end to Ms commercial education, for at 
the age of twenty-one, or as soon as he had reached his majority, he 
shook himself free at once and forever from the trammels of business 
life. 
His father had bequeathed him an ample fortune, but, as Mr. Glover 
once gave the story to the writer, through the perfidy of his father's 
partners in business, or others associated with him in Rio, the fortune 
had been dissipated, save a portion which, unknown to Mr. Glover, 
until he had reached his majority, was reserved in trust by relatives 
in England. Mr. Glover not only thought that he had beep cheated 
out of his patrimony, but on at least one occasion has intimated the 
suspicion that his father's death had occurred from other than natural 
causes. Some weeks after arriving at his majority he received the small 
fortune held for him by relatives in Leeds, and having meantime fitted 
himself for going abroad by the study of German, he began active 
preparations for his journey. To one who has known Mr. Glover inti- 
mately in later life his diary kept at this period is most interesting, as 
showing, even at the age of twenty-one, so many of those traits of char- 
acter or individualisms, if the term may be used, which so strongly 
marked the mature man. Indifference to country or home, distrust of 
mankind and of the motives of people about him, self-reliance and a 
wish to be his own master, and at the same time frequent evidences 
of the good influences by which he had been surrouuded in the family 
circle in which he was reared, appear on many pages. Some are so 
striking lean not forbear making a few brief extracts. 
During a short visit to Burneston, in April, 1834, he wrote : 
Sauntered about all day, reading Tarn O'Shanter; begin to think a country life 
would be very tiresome. Could manage to spend some mouths very pleasantly in the 
