"Indeed! he was very sorry." The maid
told many stories about Miss Newcome's goodness and charity; how she was
constantly visiting the poor now; how she was for ever engaged in good
works for the young, the sick, and the aged. She had had a dreadful
misfortune in love; she was going to be married to a young marquis;
richer even than Prince de Moncontour down at Rosebury; but it was all
broke off on account of that dreadful affair at the Hall.
Was she very good to the poor? did she come often to see her
grandfather's old friend? it was no more than she ought "to do," Colonel
Newcome said; without, however, thinking fit to tell his informant that
he had himself met his niece Ethel, five minutes before he had entered
Mrs. Mason's door.
The poor thing was in discourse with Mr. Harris, the surgeon, and talking
(as best she might, for no doubt the news which she had just heard had
agitated her), talking about blankets, and arrowroot, wine, and
medicaments for her poor, when she saw her uncle coming towards her.
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