Who is that wife? By a most monstrous blunder, Mr. Pendennis killed
Lord Farintosh's mother at one page and brought her to life again at
another; but Rosey, who is so lately consigned to Kensal Green, it is not
surely with her that Clive is travelling, for then Mrs. Mackenzie would
probably be with them to a live certainty, and the tour would be by no
means pleasant. How could Pendennis have got all those private letters,
etc., but that the Colonel kept them in a teak box, which Clive inherited
and made over to his friend? My belief then is, that in Fable-land
somewhere Ethel and Clive are living most comfortably together: that she
is immensely fond of his little boy, and a great deal happier now than
they would have been had they married at first, when they took a liking
to each other as young people. That picture of J. J.'s of Mrs. Clive
Newcome (in the Crystal Palace Exhibition in Fable-land), is certainly
not in the least like Rosey, who we read was fair; but it represents a
tall, handsome, dark lady, who must be Mrs.
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