The things we do!

"Look at his foot!"
(and she put out her own, which was uncommonly pretty, and suddenly
withdrew it, with an arch glance meant to represent a blush)--"my shoe
would fit it! When we were at Coventry Island, Sir Peregrine Blandy, who
succeeded poor dear Sir Rawdon Crawley--I saw his dear boy was gazetted
to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the Guards last week--Sir Peregrine, who was
one of the Prince of Wales's most intimate friends, was always said to
have the finest manner and presence of any man of his day; and very grand
and noble he was, but I don't think he was equal to Colonel Newcome--I
don't really think so. Do you think so, Mr. Honeyman? What a charming
discourse that was last Sunday! I know there were two pair of eyes not
dry in the church. I could not see the other people just for crying
myself. Oh, but I wish we could have you at Musselburgh! I was bred a
Presbyterian, of course; but in much travelling through the world with my
dear husband, I came to love his church.


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