Mackenzie returned to us.
Darling Rosey was very delicate, but Doctor Quackenboss was going to give
her the very same medicine which had done the charming young Duchess of
Clackmannanshire so much good, and he was not in the least disquiet.
On this I cut into the conversation with anecdotes concerning the family
of the Duchess of Clackmannanshire, remembering early days, when it used
to be my sport to entertain the Campaigner with anecdotes of the
aristocracy, about whose proceedings she still maintained a laudable
curiosity. Indeed, one of few the books escaped out of the wreck of
Tyburn Gardens was a Peerage, now a well-worn volume, much read by Rosa
and her mother.
The anecdotes were very politely received--perhaps it was the season
which made Mrs. Mack and her son-in-law on more than ordinarily good
terms. When, turning to the Campaigner, Clive said he wished that she
could persuade me to stay to dinner, she acquiesced graciously and at
once in that proposal, and vowed that her daughter would be delighted if
I could condescend to eat their humble fare.
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