She had made a will long since,
leaving all her goods and chattels to Thomas Newcome--but having no money
to give, the Colonel handed over these to the old lady's faithful
attendant, Keziah.
Although many of the Colonel's old friends had parted from him or
quarrelled with him in consequence of the ill success of the B. B. C.,
there were two old ladies who yet remained faithful to him--Miss Cann,
namely, and honest little Miss Honeyman of Brighton, who, when she heard
of the return to London of her nephew and brother-in-law, made a railway
journey to the metropolis (being the first time she ever engaged in that
kind of travelling), rustled into Clive's apartments in Howland Street in
her neatest silks, and looking not a day older than on that when we last
beheld her; and after briskly scolding the young man for permitting his
father to enter into money affairs--of which the poor dear Colonel was as
ignorant as a baby--she gave them both to understand that she had a
little sum at her banker's at their disposal--and besought the Colonel to
remember that her house was his, and that she should be proud and happy
to receive him as soon and as often and for as long a time as he would
honour her with his company.
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