Pendennis
does not say No. He has won the twenty-thousand-pound prize; and we know
there are worse blanks in that lottery.
CHAPTER LXI
In which we are introduced to a New Newcome
No answer came to Mrs. Pendennis's letter to Colonel Newcome at Brussels,
for the Colonel was absent from that city, and at the time when Laura
wrote was actually in London, whither affairs of his own had called him.
A note from George Warrington acquainted me with this circumstance; he
mentioned that he and the Colonel had dined together at Bays's on the day
previous, and that the Colonel seemed to be in the highest spirits. High
spirits about what? This news put Laura in a sad perplexity. Should she
write and tell him to get his letters from Brussels? She would in five
minutes have found some other pretext for writing to Colonel Newcome, had
not her husband sternly cautioned the young woman to leave the matter
alone.
The more readily perhaps because he had quarrelled with his nephew Sir
Barnes, Thomas Newcome went to visit his brother Hobson and his
sister-in-law; bent on showing that there was no division between him and
this branch of his family.
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