The things we do!

He would not see
his children: but with more tears he would implore Ethel never to leave
them, and, anon, would ask what he should do when she married, and he was
left alone in that infernal house?
T. Potts, Esq., of the Newcome Independent, used to say afterwards that
the Baronet was in the direst terror of another meeting with Lord
Highgate, and kept a policeman at the lodge-gate, and a second in the
kitchen, to interpose in event of a collision. But Mr. Potts made this
statement in after days, when the quarrel between his party and paper and
Sir Barnes Newcome was flagrant. Five or six days after the meeting of
the two rivals in Newcome market-place, Sir Barnes received a letter from
the friend of Lord Highgate, informing him that his lordship, having
waited for him according to promise, had now left England, and presumed
that the differences between them were to be settled by their respective
lawyers--infamous behaviour on a par with the rest of Lord Highgate's
villainy, the Baronet said.


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