I am sorry for
what you call the Colonel's triumph and his enemy's humiliation. Let
Barnes be as odious as you will, he ought never to have humiliated
Ethel's brother; but he is weak. Other gentlemen as well are weak, Mr.
Pen, although you are so much cleverer than women. I have no patience
with the Colonel, and I beg you to tell him, whether he asks you or not
that he has lost my good graces, and that I for one will not huzzah at
what his friends and flatterers call his triumphs, and that I don't think
in this instance he has acted like the dear Colonel, and the good
Colonel, and the good Christian that I once thought him."
We must now tell what the Colonel and Clive had been doing, and what
caused two such different opinions respecting their conduct from the two
critics just named. The refusal of the London Banking House to accept the
bills of the Great Indian Company of course affected very much the credit
of that Company in this country. Sedative announcements were issued by
the Directors in London; brilliant accounts of the Company's affairs
abroad were published; proof incontrovertible was given that the B.
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