The things we do!

Occasionally Clive was at their riding-parties, when the Colonel would
fall back and fondly survey the young people cantering side by side over
the grass: but by a tacit convention it was arranged that the cousins
should be but seldom together; the Colonel might be his niece's companion
and no one could receive him with a more joyous welcome, but when Mr.
Clive made his appearance with his father at the Park Lane door, a
certain gene was visible in Miss Ethel, who would never mount except with
Colonel Newcome's assistance, and who, especially after Mr. Clive's
famous mustachios made their appearance, rallied him, and remonstrated
with him regarding those ornaments, and treated him with much distance
and dignity. She asked him if he was going into the army? she could not
understand how any but military men could wear mustachios; and then she
looked fondly and archly at her uncle, and said she liked none that were
not grey.
Clive set her down as a very haughty, spoiled, aristocratic young
creature.


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