The things we do!

She was active, brisk, jovial, and alert; and so
good-looking, that it was a wonder she had not taken a successor to
Captain Mackenzie. James Binnie cautioned his friend the Colonel against
the attractions of the buxom siren; and laughingly would ask Clive how he
would like Mrs. Mackenzie for a mamaw?
Colonel Newcome felt himself very much at ease regarding his future
prospects. He was very glad that his friend James was reconciled to his
family, and hinted to Clive that the late Captain Mackenzie's
extravagance had been the cause of the rupture between him and his
brother-in-law, who had helped that prodigal captain repeatedly during
his life; and, in spite of family quarrels, had never ceased to act
generously to his widowed sister and her family. "But I think, Mr.
Clive," said he, "that as Miss Rosa is very pretty, and you have a spare
room at your studio, you had best take up your quarters in Charlotte
Street as long as the ladies are living with us." Clive was nothing loth
to be independent; but he showed himself to be a very good home-loving
youth.


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