Lady Anne wrote rather a pretty little poem about
welcoming the white Fawn to the Newcome bowers, and "Clara" was made to
rhyme with "fairer," and "timid does and antlered deer to dot the glades
of Chanticlere," quite in a picturesque way. Lady Kew pronounced that the
poem was very pretty indeed.
The year after Jack Belsize made his foreign tour he returned to London
for the season. Lady Clara did not happen to be there; her health was a
little delicate, and her kind parents took her abroad; so all things went
on very smoothly and comfortably indeed.
Yes, but when things were so quiet and comfortable, when the ladies of
the two families had met at the Congress of Baden, and liked each other
so much, when Barnes and his papa the Baronet, recovered from his
illness, were actually on their journey from Aix-la-Chapelle, and Lady
Kew in motion from Kissingen to the Congress of Baden, why on earth
should Jack Belsize, haggard, wild, having been winning great sums, it
was said, at Hombourg, forsake his luck there, and run over frantically
to Baden? He wore a great thick beard, a great slouched hat--he looked
like nothing more or less than a painter or an Italian brigand.
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