He forgot all respect and even gentlemanlike
behaviour. Do you know he used words--words such as Barnes uses sometimes
when he is angry! and dared this language to me! I was sorry till then,
very sorry, and very much moved; but I know more than ever, now, that I
was right in refusing Lord Farintosh."
Dearest Laura now pressed for an account of all that had happened, which
may be briefly told as follows. Feeling very deeply upon the subject
which brought him to Miss Newcome, it was no wonder that Lord Farintosh
spoke at first in a way which moved her. He said he thought her letter to
his mother was very rightly written under the circumstances, and thanked
her for her generosity in offering to release him from his engagement.
But the affair--the painful circumstance of Highgate, and that--which had
happened in the Newcome family, was no fault of Miss Newcome's, and Lord
Farintosh could not think of holding her accountable. His friends had
long urged him to marry, and it was by his mother's own wish that the
engagement was formed, which he was determined to maintain.
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