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Substance of two letters from Lovelace to Belford; in which he tells him who Mennell is, and gives an account of many new contrivances and precautions. Women's pockets ballast-bags. Mrs. Sinclair's wardrobe. Good order observed in her house. The lady's caution, he says, warrants his contrivances. LETTER XXI. Lovelace to Belford. Will write a play. The title of it, The Quarrelsome Lovers.
Mennell, so handsomely expressed her concern upon it, and her wishes that it could suit us to bear with the unavoidable delay, I hoped, that going down to The Lawn for two or three of the summer- months, when I was made the happiest of men, would be favourable to all round.
REFERENCES: Hogan: The Irish in Australia , The Gladstone Colony ; Mennell: Dictionary of Australian Biography ; Duffy: Life in Two Hemispheres ; Kenny: The Catholic Church in Australia to the Year 1840; Moran: History of the Catholic Church in Australasia ; Davitt: Life and Progress in Australasia ; Bonwick: The First Twenty Years of Australia ; Flanagan: History of New South Wales ; Byrne: Australian Writers ; Wilson: The Church in New Zealand ; Hocken: A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to New Zealand .
She calls him a young officer of sense and politeness, who gave her an account of the house and furniture, to the same effect that Mr. Lovelace had done before;* as also of the melancholy way Mrs. Fretchville is in. * See Letter IV. of this volume. She tells Miss Howe how extremely urgent Mr. Mennell undertook that very afternoon to show her all of it, except the apartment Mrs.
Mennell, that might lead to points out of my power to determine upon, until I heard from my uncle Harlowe; whom, I confess, I have caused to be sounded, whether I might be favoured with his interest to obtain for me a reconciliation with my friends, upon terms which I had caused to be proposed. I know not, said he, and suppose must not presume to ask, what those terms were.
I was ready to leap for joy, and instantly resolved to bring forward an expedient which I had held in petto; and entering the dining-room with an air of transport, I boldly clasped my arms about her, as she sat; she huddling up her papers in her handkerchief all the time; the dropped paper unseen. O my dearest life, a lucky expedient have Mr. Mennell and I hit upon just now.
He presses her to go abroad with him; yet mentions not the ceremony that should give propriety to his urgency. Cannot bear the life she lives. Wishes her uncle Harlowe to be sounded by Mr. Hickman, as to a reconciliation. Mennell introduced to her. Will not take another step with Lovelace till she know the success of the proposed application to her uncle.
Lovelace's bold attempt and freedom, as I told you I would, to keep him ever since at a distance, that I may have an opportunity to see the success of the application to my uncle, and to be at liberty to embrace any favourable overtures that may arise from it. Yet he has been very importunate, and twice brought Mr. Mennell from Mrs. Fretchvill to talk about the house.
Mennell? methinks thou askest: I never heard of such a man as Captain Mennell. Very likely. But knowest thou not young Newcomb, honest Doleman's newphew? O-ho! Is it he? It is. And I have changed his name by virtue of my own single authority. Knowest thou not, that I am a great name-father? Preferment I bestow, both military and civil. I give estates, and take them away at my pleasure.
And now, Belford, according to my new system, I think this house of Mrs. Fretchville an embarrass upon me. I will get rid of it; for some time at least. Mennell, when I am out, shall come to her, inquiring for me. What for? thou'lt ask. What for hast thou not heard what has befallen poor Mrs. Fretchville? Then I'll tell thee. One of her maids, about a week ago, was taken with the small-pox.
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