I will shake the dust off my
feet and leave that house. I will--And Mr. Newcome's friends may then
sneer at me and abuse me, and blacken my darling child's heart towards me
if they choose. And I thank you, Mrs. Pendennis, for all your kindness
towards my daughter's family, and for the furniture which you have sent
into the house, and for the trouble you have taken about our family
arrangements. It was for this I took the liberty of calling upon you, and
I wish you a very good morning." So speaking, the Campaigner left my
wife; and Mrs. Pendennis enacted the pleasing scene with great spirit to
her husband afterwards, concluding the whole with a splendid curtsey and
toss of the head, such as Mrs. Mackenzie performed as her parting salute.
Our dear Colonel had fled before. He had acquiesced humbly with the
decree of fate; and, lonely, old and beaten, marched honestly on the path
of duty. It was a great blessing, he wrote to us, to him to think that in
happier days and during many years he had been enabled to benefit his
kind and excellent relative, Miss Honeyman.
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