The things we do!

Besides, there were some
new and very pleasant families settled in the neighbourhood. Clavering
Park was taken by some delightful people--"and you know, Pen, you were
always very fond of fly-fishing, and may fish the Brawl, as you used in
old days, when--" The lips of the pretty satirist who alluded to these
unpleasant bygones were silenced as they deserved to be by Mr. Pendennis.
"Do you think, sir, I did not know," says the sweetest voice in the
world, "when you went out on your fishing excursions with Miss Amory?"
Again the flow of words is checked by the styptic previously applied.
"I wonder," says Mr. Pendennis, archly, bending over his wife's fair
hand--"I wonder whether this kind of thing is taking place in the
drawing-room?"
"Nonsense, Arthur. It is time to go back to them. Why, I declare, I have
been three-quarters of an hour away!"
"I don't think they will much miss you, my dear," says the gentleman.
"She is certainly very fond of him. She is always coming here.


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