The things we do!

These are two of my girls. My boys are at
school. I shall be so glad to introduce them to their uncle. This naughty
boy might never have seen you, but that we took him home to Marblehead,
after the scarlet fever, and made him well, didn't we, Clive? And we are
all very fond of him, and you must not be jealous of his love for his
aunt. We feel that we quite know you through him, and we know that you
know us, and we hope you will like us. Do you think your pa will like us,
Clive? Or perhaps you will like Lady Anne best? Yes; you have been to her
first, of course? Not been? Oh! because she is not in town." Leaning
fondly on the arm of Clive, mademoiselle standing grouped with the
children hard by while John, with his hat off, stood at the opened door,
Mr Newcome slowly uttered the above remarkable remarks to the Colonel, on
the threshold of her house, which she never asked him to pass.
"If you will come in to us at about ten this evening," she then said,
"you will find some men, not undistinguished, who honour me of an
evening.


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