"
And so Miss Newcome rode away--back amongst the roses and the rouges--
back amongst the fiddling, flirting, flattery, falseness--and Laura's
sweet serene face looked after her departing. Mrs. Booth's was a very
grand dejeuner. We read in the newspapers a list of the greatest names
there. A Royal Duke and Duchess; a German Highness, a Hindoo Nabob, etc.;
and, amongst the Marquises, Farintosh; and, amongst the Lords, Highgate;
and Lady Clara Newcome, and Miss Newcome, who looked killing, our
acquaintance Captain Crackthorpe informs us, and who was in perfectly
stunning spirits. "His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Farintosh is
wild about her," the Captain said, "and our poor young friend Clive may
just go and hang himself. Dine with us at the Gar and Starter? Jolly
party. Oh! I forgot! married man now!" So saying, the Captain entered the
hostelry near which I met him, leaving this present chronicler to return
to his own home.
CHAPTER LI
An Old Friend
I might open the present chapter as a contemporary writer of Romance is
occasionally in the habit of commencing his tales of Chivalry, by a
description of a November afternoon falling leaves, tawny forests,
gathering storms, and other autumnal phenomena; and two horsemen winding
up the romantic road which leads from--from Richmond Bridge to the Star
and Garter.
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