I think Clive and the Colonel were more affected by the news of James's
death than Rosey, concerning whose wonderful strength of mind good Thomas
Newcome discoursed to my Laura and me, when, fancying that my friend's
wife needed comfort and consolation, Mrs. Pendennis went to visit her.
"Of course we shall have no more parties this year," sighed Rosey. She
looked very pretty in her black dress. Clive, in his hearty way, said a
hundred kind feeling things about the departed friend. Thomas Newcome's
recollections of him, and regret, were no less tender and sincere. "See,"
says he, "how that dear child's sense of duty makes her hide her
feelings! Her grief is most deep, but she wears a calm countenance. I see
her looking sad in private, but I no sooner speak than she smiles." "I
think," said Laura, as we came away, "that Colonel Newcome performs all
the courtship part in the marriage, and Clive, poor Clive, though he
spoke very nobly and generously about Mr. Binnie, I am sure it is not his
old friend's death merely, which makes him so unhappy.
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