The young men
claimed kinsmanship with one another, which those who are learned in the
peerage may unravel.
When Lord Dorking's eldest daughter married the Honourable and Venerable
Dennis Gallowglass, Archdeacon of Bullintubber (and at present Viscount
Gallowglass and Killbrogue, and Lord Bishop of Ballyshannon), great
festivities took place at Chanticlere, whither the relatives of the high
contracting parties were invited. Among them came poor Jack Belsize, and
hence the tears which are dropping at Baden at this present period of our
history. Clara Pulleyn was then a pretty little maiden of sixteen, and
Jack a handsome guardsman of six or seven and twenty. As she had been
especially warned against Jack as a wicked young rogue, whose antecedents
were wofully against him; as she was never allowed to sit near him at
dinner, or to walk with him, or to play at billiards with him, or to
waltz with him; as she was scolded if he spoke a word to her, or if he
picked up her glove, or touched her hand in a round game, or caught him
when they were playing at blindman's-buff; as they neither of them had a
penny in the world, and were both very good-looking, of course Clara was
always catching Jack at blindman's-buff; constantly lighting upon him in
the shrubberies or corridors, etc.
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