Clive came back from Boulogne in a week, as we have said--but he came
back without his wife, much to our alarm, and looked so exceedingly
fierce and glum when we demanded the reason of his return without his
family, that we saw wars and battles had taken place, and thought that in
this last continental campaign the Campaigner had been too much for her
friend.
The Colonel, to whom Clive communicated, though with us the poor lad held
his tongue, told my wife what had happened:--not all the battles; which
no doubt raged at breakfast, dinner, supper, during the week of Clive's
visit to Boulogne,--but the upshot of these engagements. Rosey, not
unwilling in her first private talk with her husband to come to England
with him and the boy, showed herself irresolute on the second day at
breakfast, when the fire was opened on both sides; cried at dinner when
fierce assaults took place, in which Clive had the advantage; slept
soundly, but besought him to be very firm, and met the enemy at breakfast
with a quaking heart; cried all that day during which, pretty well
without cease, the engagement lasted; and when Clive might have conquered
and brought her off, but the weather was windy and the sea was rough, and
he was pronounced a brute to venture on it with a wife in Rosey's
situation.
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