The things we do!

Mrs. Newcome herself would have been pleased
had she heard Honeyman's discourse regarding her guests and herself.
Charles Honeyman so spoke of most persons that you might fancy they were
listening over his shoulder. Such an assemblage of learning, genius, and
virtue, might well delight and astonish a stranger. "That lady in the red
turban, with the handsome daughters, is Lady Budge, wife of the eminent
judge of that name--everybody was astonished that he was not made Chief
Justice, and elevated to the Peerage--the only objection (as I have heard
confidentially) was on the part of a late sovereign, who said he never
could consent to have a peer of the name of Budge. Her ladyship was of
humble, I have heard even menial, station originally, but becomes her
present rank, dispenses the most elegant hospitality at her mansion in
Connaught Terrace, and is a pattern as a wife and a mother. The young man
talking to her daughter is a young barrister, already becoming celebrated
as a contributor to some of our principal reviews.


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