The things we do!

Moss said) "and showed her to you for dothing." Did he
take Clive behind the scenes? Over this part of the young gentleman's
life, without implying the least harm to him--for have not others been
behind the scenes; and can there be any more dreary object than those
whitened and raddled old women who shudder at the slips?--over this stage
of Clive Newcome's life we may surely drop the curtain.
It is pleasanter to contemplate that kind old face of Clive's father,
that sweet young blushing lady by his side, as the two ride homewards at
sunset. The grooms behind in quiet conversation about horses, as men
never tire of talking about horses. Ethel wants to know about battles;
about lovers' lamps, which she has read of in Lalla Rookh. "Have you ever
seen them, uncle, floating down the Ganges of a night?" About Indian
widows. "Did you actually see one burning, and hear her scream as you
rode up?" She wonders whether he will tell her anything about Clive's
mother: how she must have loved Uncle Newcome! Ethel can't bear, somehow,
to think that her name was Mrs.


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