The things we do!

Lady
Julia, we are led to believe, had retired upon half-pay, and into an
inglorious exile at Brussels, with her sister, the outlaw's wife, by
whose bankrupt fireside she was perfectly happy. Miss Newcome was now her
grandmother's companion, and they had been on a tour of visits in
Scotland, and were journeying from country-house to country-house about
the time when our good Colonel returned to his native shores.
The Colonel loved his nephew Barnes no better than before, perhaps,
though we must say that since his return from India the young Baronet's
conduct had been particularly friendly. "No doubt marriage had improved
him; Lady Clara seemed a good-natured young woman enough; besides," says
the Colonel, wagging his good old head knowingly, "Tom Newcome, of the
Bundelcund Bank, is a personage to be conciliated; whereas Tom Newcome,
of the Bengal Cavalry, was not worth Master Barnes's attention. He has
been very good and kind on the whole; so have his friends been uncommonly
civil.


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