So Clara was free, and the year when Jack came out of prison and went
abroad, she passed the season in London dancing about night after night,
and everybody said she was well out of that silly affair with Jack
Belsize. It was then that Barnes Newcome, Esq., a partner of the wealthy
banking firm of Hobson Brothers and Newcome, son and heir of Sir Brian
Newcome, of Newcome, Bart., and M. P., descended in right line from Bryan
de Newcomyn, slain at Hastings, and barber-surgeon to Edward the
Confessor, etc. etc., cast the eyes of regard on the Lady Clara Pulleyn,
who was a little pale and languid certainly, but had blue eyes, a
delicate skin, and a pretty person, and knowing her previous history as
well as you who have just perused it, deigned to entertain matrimonial
intentions towards her ladyship.
Not one of the members of these most respectable families, excepting poor
little Clara perhaps, poor little fish (as if she had any call but to do
her duty, or to ask a quelle sauce elle serait mangee), protested against
this little affair of traffic; Lady Dorking had a brood of little
chickens to succeed Clara.
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