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The infantile meal had not been long concluded, when servants announced "the Marquis of Farintosh;" and that nobleman made his appearance to pay his respects to Miss Newcome and Lady Anne. He brought the very last news of the very last party in London, where "Really, upon my honour, now, it was quite a stupid party, because Miss Newcome wasn't there. It was now, really."
"You know, Clive, I can't help myself: nor would it be proper to make you signs out of the window. But you must call for all that: grandmamma may become more good-humoured: or if you don't come she may suspect I told you not to come: and to battle with her day after day is no pleasure, sir, I assure you. Here is Lord Farintosh coming to take me to dance.
In his wanderings he had come across an outcast named Farintosh, a man who had once been a clergyman and a master of arts of Trinity College, Dublin, but who was now a broken-down gambler with a slender purse and a still more slender conscience. He still retained a plausible manner and an engaging address, and these qualities first recommended him to the notice of the young merchant.
'I am sorry to have to say it, sir, but we have trusted in your word too often. 'But the money is there, I swear it. 'It is the Company's money, and we must have it. 'It will ruin my credit locally if I draw out my whole account under compulsion. 'Then let him keep ten pounds in, said Frank. Farintosh agreed with an ill grace to the compromise, and they all started off for the bank.
Barkins, you will keep the front drawing-room shutters shut, and remember we are not in town, unless Lady Glenlivat or Lord Farintosh should call." "Do you think Farintosh will will call, ma'am?" asked Sir Barnes demurely. "He will be going through to Newmarket. He has been where we have been at two or three places in Scotland," replies the lady, with equal gravity.
Last night, I give you my honour, I heard every one of the confounded hurs toll, except the last, when I was dreaming of my father, and the chambermaid woke me with a hot water jug." "Did she scald you? What a cruel chambermaid! I see you have shaven the mustachios off." "Farintosh asked me whether I was going in the army," said Clive, "and she laughed. I thought I had best dock them.
I mean I would not be as selfish or as dull, or as ill educated I won't say worse of him not to be as handsome, or as wealthy, or as noble as he is. I swear I would not now change my place against his, or give up being Clive Newcome to be my Lord Marquis of Farintosh, with all his acres and titles of nobility. Ethel. Why are you for ever harping about Lord Farintosh and his titles?
You can get 'em at Hudson's for five guineas a pound." bursts out the youthful peer. "I understand why you are out of sorts, old boy," says Henchman, stretching out his manly hand. A tear of compassion twinkled in his eyelid, and coursed down his mottled cheek. "Cut away at old Frank, Farintosh, a fellow who has been attached to you since before you could speak.
Everybody crowded around Monsieur de Borodino thus apostrophized. The Marquis of Alicompayne, young De Boots of the Lifeguards, Tom Protocol of the Foreign Office; the gay young Peers, Farintosh, Poldoody, and the rest; and Bagnigge, for a wonder, not less eager than any one present. "No, he will tell you nothing about her. Don't you see he has gone off in a fury!" Franklin Fox continued.
"That cannot be our fault, though some of us seem think it is, as they hide the truth so. One of my uncles used to tell me that my grandfather's father was a labourer in Newcome: but I was a child then, and liked to believe the prettiest story best." "As if it matters!" cries Lord Farintosh. "As if it matters in your wife? n'est-ce pas? I never thought that it would.
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