The things we do!

He works away fiercely at his pictures,
and in spite of himself improves in his art. He sent a "Combat of
Cavalry," and a picture of "Sir Brian the Templar carrying off Rebecca,"
to the British Institution this year; both of which pieces were praised
in other journals besides the Pall Mall Gazette. He did not care for the
newspaper praises. He was rather surprised when a dealer purchased his
"Sir Brian the Templar." He came and went from our house a melancholy
swain. He was thankful for Laura's kindness and pity. J. J.'s studio was
his principal resort; and I dare say, as he set up his own easel there,
and worked by his friend's side, he bemoaned his lot to his sympathising
friend.
Sir Barnes Newcome's family was absent from London during the winter. His
mother, and his brothers and sisters, his wife and his two children, were
gone to Newcome for Christmas. Some six weeks after seeing him, Ethel
wrote her uncle a kind, merry letter. They had been performing private
theatricals at the country-house where she and Lady Kew were staying.


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