The things we do!

Now that the old Countess, and perhaps Barnes, were away, the barrier
between Clive and this family seemed to be withdrawn. The young folks who
loved him were free to see him as often as he would come. They were going
to Baden: would he come too? Baden was on the road to Switzerland, he
might journey to Strasbourg, Basle, and so on. Clive was glad enough to
go with his cousins, and travel in the orbit of such a lovely girl as
Ethel Newcome. J. J. performed the second part always when Clive was
present: and so they all travelled to Coblentz, Mayence, and Frankfort
together, making the journey which everybody knows, and sketching the
mountains and castles we all of us have sketched. Ethel's beauty made all
the passengers on all the steamers look round and admire. Clive was proud
of being in the suite of such a lovely person. The family travelled with
a pair of those carriages which used to thunder along the Continental
roads a dozen years since, and from interior, box, and rumble discharge a
dozen English people at hotel gates.


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