The things we do!

The livid scowl with which Barnes greeted my wife surprised that lady,
though it did not induce her to prolong her visit to her friend. As Laura
took leave, she heard Sir Barnes screaming to the nurses to "take those
little beggars away," and she rightly conjectured that some more
unpleasantries had occurred to disturb this luckless gentleman's temper.
On the morrow, dearest Ethel's usual courier, one of the boys from the
lodge, trotted over on his donkey to dearest Laura at Rosebury, with one
of those missives which were daily passing between the ladies. This
letter said:--

"Barnes m'a fait une scene terrible hier. I was obliged to tell him
everything about Lord F., and to use the plainest language. At first, he
forbade you the house. He thinks that you have been the cause of F.'s
dismissal, and charged me, most unjustly, with a desire to bring back
poor C. N. I replied as became me, and told him fairly I would leave the
house if odious insulting charges were made against me, if my friends
were not received.


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