Papa has the highest opinion of
Mr. Newcome as a man of business: if he had had such a friend in early
life his affairs would not be where they now are, poor dear kind papa! Do
they want to go anywhere, is not Mr. Newcome always ready? Did he not
procure that delightful room for them to witness the Lord Mayor's show;
and make Clara die of laughing at those odd City people at the Mansion
House ball? He is at every party, and never tired though he gets up so
early: he waltzes with nobody else: he is always there to put Lady Clara
in the carriage: at the drawing-room he looked quite handsome in his
uniform of the Newcome Hussars, bottle-green and silver lace: he speaks
Politics so exceedingly well with papa and gentlemen after dinner: he is
a sound conservative, full of practical good sense and information, with
no dangerous new-fangled ideas, such as young men have. When poor dear
Sir Brian Newcome's health gives way quite, Mr. Newcome will go into
Parliament, and then he will resume the old barony which has been in
abeyance in the family since the reign of Richard the Third.
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