The things we do!

Ethel would
indignantly deny these charges; then perhaps credit a few of them; and
she looked at Clive with melancholy eyes when he came to visit his aunt;
and I hope prayed that Heaven might mend his wicked ways. The truth is,
the young fellow enjoyed life, as one of his age and spirit might be
expected to do; but he did very little harm, and meant less; and was
quite unconscious of the reputation which his kind friends were making
for him.
There had been a long-standing promise that Clive and his father were to
go to Newcome at Christmas: and I dare say Ethel proposed to reform the
young prodigal, if prodigal he was, for she busied herself delightedly in
preparing the apartments which they were to inhabit during their stay--
speculated upon it in a hundred pleasant ways, putting off her visit to
this pleasant neighbour, or that pretty scene in the vicinage, until her
uncle should come and they should be enabled to enjoy the excursion
together. And before the arrival of her relatives, Ethel, with one of her
young brothers, went to see Mrs.


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