You sit for hours
closeted with the young fellow of sixty; you change the conversation when
your own injured husband enters the room, and pretend to talk about the
weather, or the baby. You little arch hypocrite, you know you do. Don't
try to humbug me, miss; what will Richmond, what will society, what will
Mrs. Grundy in general say to such atrocious behaviour?"
"Oh! Pen," says my wife, closing my mouth in a way which I do not choose
further to particularise; "that man is the best, the dearest, the kindest
creature. I never knew such a good man; you ought to put him into a book.
Do you know, sir, that I felt the very greatest desire to give him a kiss
when he went away; and that one which you had just now, was intended for
him.
"Take back thy gift, false girl!" says Mr Pendennis; and then, finally,
we come to the particular circumstance which had occasioned so much
enthusiasm on Mrs. Laura's part.
Colonel Newcome had summoned heart of grace, and in Clive's behalf had
regularly proposed him to Barnes, as a suitor to Ethel, taking an artful
advantage of his nephew Barnes Newcome, and inviting that Barnes to a
private meeting, where they were to talk about the affairs of the
Bundelcund Banking Company.
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