The things we do!

If the young gentlemen of the Life Guards Green who were talking about
Miss Newcome and her suitors, were silent when Clive appeared amongst
them, it was because they were aware not only of his relationship to the
young lady, but his unhappy condition regarding her. Certain men there
are who never tell their love, but let concealment, like a worm in the
bud, feed on their damask cheeks; others again must be not always
thinking, but talking, about the darling object. So it was not very long
before Captain Crackthorpe was taken into Clive's confidence, and through
Crackthorpe very likely the whole mess became acquainted with his
passion. These young fellows, who had been early introduced into the
world, gave Clive small hopes of success, putting to him, in their
downright phraseology, the point of which he was already aware, that Miss
Newcome was intended for his superiors, and that he had best not make his
mind uneasy by sighing for those beautiful grapes which were beyond his
reach.


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