Still their pale and
doubtful looks continued. What caused them? In the open day, with a
servant attending her Lady Clara Newcome had left her husband's house;
and a letter was forwarded to him that same evening from my Lord
Highgate, informing Sir Barnes Newcome that Lady Clara Pulleyn could bear
his tyranny no longer, and had left his roof; that Lord Highgate proposed
to leave England almost immediately, but would remain long enough to
afford Sir Barnes Newcome the opportunity for an interview, in case he
should be disposed to demand one: and a friend (of Lord Highgate's late
regiment) was named who would receive letters and act in any way
necessary for his lordship.
The debates of the House of Lords must tell what followed afterwards in
the dreary history of Lady Clara Pulleyn. The proceedings in the Newcome
Divorce Bill filled the usual number of columns in the papers,--
especially the Sunday papers. The witnesses were examined by learned
peers whose business--nay, pleasure--it seems to be to enter into such
matters; and, for the ends of justice and morality, doubtless, the whole
story of Barnes Newcome's household was told to the British public.
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