The things we do!

Susan Newcome would have lived to be a rich woman
had not fate ended her career within a year after her marriage, when she
died giving birth to a son.
Newcome had a nurse for the child, and a cottage at Clapham, hard by Mr.
Hobson's house, where he had often walked in the garden of a Sunday, and
been invited to sit down to take a glass of wine. Since he had left their
service, the house had added a banking business, which was greatly helped
by the Quakers and their religious connection; and Newcome, keeping his
account there, and gradually increasing his business, was held in very
good esteem by his former employers, and invited sometimes to tea at the
Hermitage; for which entertainments he did not, in truth, much care at
first, being a City man, a good deal tired with his business during the
day, and apt to go to sleep over the sermons, expoundings, and hymns,
with which the gifted preachers, missionaries, etc., who were always at
the Hermitage, used to wind up the evening, before supper.


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