The world began for her at night; when she went in the train
of the old Countess from hotel to hotel, and danced waltz after waltz
with Prussian and Neapolitan secretaries, with princes' officers of
ordonnance,--with personages even more lofty very likely,--for the court
of the Citizen King was then in its splendour; and there must surely have
been a number of nimble young royal highnesses who would like to dance
with such a beauty as Miss Newcome. The Marquis of Farintosh had a share
in these polite amusements. His English conversation was not brilliant as
yet, although his French was eccentric; but at the court balls, whether
he appeared in his uniform of the Scotch Archers, or in his native
Glenlivat tartar there certainly was not in his own or the public
estimation a handsomer young nobleman in Paris that season. It has been
said that he was greatly improved in dancing; and, for a young man of his
age, his whiskers were really extraordinarily large and curly.
Miss Newcome, out of consideration for her grandmother's strange
antipathy to him, did not inform Lady Kew that a young gentleman by the
name of Clive occasionally came to visit the Hotel de Florac.
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