The things we do!

When he had made up his great mind, that the time was come and
the woman, he was ready to give a Marchioness of Farintosh to the English
nation.

Miss Newcome has been compared ere this to the statue of "Huntress Diana"
at the Louvre, whose haughty figure and beauty the young lady indeed
somewhat resembled. I was not present when Diana and Diana's grandmother
hunted the noble Scottish stag of whom we have just been writing; nor
care to know how many times Lord Farintosh escaped, and how at last he
was brought to bay and taken by his resolute pursuers. Paris, it appears,
was the scene of his fall and capture. The news was no doubt well known
amongst Lord Farintosh's brother-dandies, among exasperated matrons and
virgins in Mayfair, and in polite society generally, before it came to
simple Tom Newcome and his son. Not a word on the subject had Sir Barnes
mentioned to the Colonel: perhaps not choosing to speak till the
intelligence was authenticated; perhaps not wishing to be the bearer of
tidings so painful.


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