His person was handsome, his
courage high, his gaiety and frankness delightful and winning. His money
was plenty and he spent it like a young king. He could speedily beat all
the club at Lundy's at billiards, and give points to the redoubted F. B.
himself. He sang a famous song at their jolly supper-parties: and J. J.
had no greater delight than to listen to his fresh voice, and watch the
young conqueror at the billiard-table, where the balls seemed to obey
him.
Clive was not the most docile of Mr. Gandish's pupils. If he had not come
to the studio on horseback, several of the young students averred,
Gandish would not always have been praising him and quoting him as that
professor certainly did. It must be confessed that the young ladies read
the history of Clive's uncle in the Book of Baronets, and that Gandish
jun., probably with an eye to business, made a design of a picture, in
which, according to that veracious volume, one of the Newcomes was
represented as going cheerfully to the stake at Smithfield, surrounded by
some very ill-favoured Dominicans, whose arguments did not appear to make
the least impression upon the martyr of the Newcome family.
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