In these last days,
besides the visits which daily took place between one and other, the
young messenger was put in ceaseless requisition, and his donkey must
have been worn off his little legs with trotting to and fro between the
two houses, Laura was quite anxious and hurt at not hearing from the
Colonel; it was a shame that he did not have over his letters from
Belgium and answer that one which she had honoured him by writing. By
some information, received who knows how? our host was aware of the
intrigue which Mrs. Pendennis was carrying on; and his little wife almost
as much interested in it as my own. She whispered to me in her kind way
that she would give a guinea, that she would, to see a certain couple
made happy together; that they were born for one another, that they were;
she was for having me go off to fetch Clive: but who was I to act as
Hymen's messenger, or to interpose in such delicate family affairs?
All this while Sir Barnes Newcome, Bart., remained absent in London,
attending to his banking duties there, and pursuing the dismal inquiries
which ended, in the ensuing Michaelmas term, in the famous suit of
Newcome v.
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