" For, you
see, those advisers opined that if we had written over to Mrs. Newcome
--"Come"--she would have come with the Campaigner in her suite.
Vowing that he would behave like a man of courage--and we knew that Clive
had shown himself to be such in two or three previous battles--Clive
crossed the water to bring back his little Rosey. Our good Colonel agreed
to dine at our house during the days of his son's absence. I have said
how beloved he was by young and old there--and he was kind enough to say
afterwards, that no woman had made him so happy as Laura. We did not tell
him--I know not from what reticence--that we had advised Clive to offer a
bribe of fifty pounds a year to Mrs. Mackenzie; until about a fortnight
after Clive's absence, and a week after his return, when news came that
poor old Mrs. Mason was dead at Newcome, whereupon we informed the
Colonel that he had another pensioner now in the Campaigner.
Colonel Newcome was thankful that his dear old friend had gone out of the
world in comfort and without pain.
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