So with no
more thanks for his interference than a man usually gets who meddles in
domestic strifes, the present luckless advocate ceased pleading.
To be sure, the Colonel and Clive had other advisers, who did not take
the peaceful side. George Warrington was one of these; he was for war a
l'outrance with Barnes Newcome; for keeping no terms with such a villain.
He found a pleasure in hunting him, and whipping him. "Barnes ought to be
punished," George said, "for his poor wife's misfortune; it was Barnes's
infernal cruelty, wickedness, selfishness, which had driven her into
misery and wrong." Mr. Warrington went down to Newcome, and was present
at that lecture whereof mention has been made in a previous chapter. I am
afraid his behaviour was very indecorous; he laughed at the pathetic
allusions of the respected Member for Newcome; he sneered at the sublime
passages; he wrote an awful critique in the Newcome Independent two days
after, whereof the irony was so subtle, that half the readers of the
paper mistook his grave scorn for respect, and his gibes for praise.
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