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Updated: June 14, 2025
And thus it happened that when Miss Ethel came to pay her visit, and sate with Madame de Florac and her grandchildren in the garden, Mr. Newcome would sometimes walk up the avenue there, and salute the ladies. If Ethel had not wanted to see him, would she have come?
"I never heard the story about the deserted children." "How should you, O you guileless man!" cries Warrington. "I am not in the ways of scandal-hearing myself much: but this tale I had from Sir Barnes Newcome's own country. Mr. Batters of the Newcome Independent is my esteemed client.
Miss Carr looked very contented and comfortable as she lay back against the cushions of her easy chair, so comfortable that she groaned with annoyance as the servant came forward to announce a visitor, and the frown did not diminish when she heard the name. "Oh, ask Mr Newcome to come up, Baker! I will see him here."
The reader has already been made acquainted with this lady by the letters of hers, which came into my possession some time after the events which I am at present narrating: my wife, through our kind friend, Colonel Newcome, had also had the honour of an introduction to Madame de Florac at Paris; and, on coming to Rosebury for the Christmas holidays, I found Laura and the children greatly in favour with the good Countess.
The solitary wretch who takes charge of London houses, and the two servants specially affected to Lady Kew's person, were the only people in attendance. In fact, her ladyship was not in town. And that is why, no doubt, Barnes Newcome said nothing about her being there. The figure cowering over the furtive teapot glowered grimly at Barnes as he entered; and an old voice said "Ho, it's you!"
Newcome extinguished the lamps, took a bedchamber candle to return to her room, and must have fallen on the landing, where she was discovered by the maids, sitting with her head reclining against the balustrades, and endeavouring to staunch a wound in her forehead, which was bleeding profusely, having struck in a fall against the stone step of the stair. "When Mrs.
Suddenly, at the corner of a street, a man's figure in a long black robe stopped him and laid a hand on his arm. 'Newcome! cried Robert, standing still. 'I was there, said the other, bending forward and looking close into his eyes. 'I heard almost all. I went to confront, to denounce you!
He professed to think that she was ruining herself for her younger brothers, whose expenses the young lady was defraying, this one at college, that in the army, and whose maintenance he thought might be amply defrayed out of their own little fortunes and his mother's jointure: and, by ingeniously proving that a vast number of his household expenses were personal to Miss Newcome and would never have been incurred but for her residence in his house, he subtracted for his own benefit no inconsiderable portion of her income.
Clive when that unfortunate subject was introduced again. My lord was going back to London to-morrow. Was Miss Newcome going back? Wouldn't he like to go back in the train with her! another unlucky observation.
In half an hour after Florac spoke, that meeting between Barnes and Highgate actually had taken place in the open square of Newcome, within four doors of the King's Arms inn, close to which lives Sir Barnes Newcome's man of business; and before which, Mr. Harris, as he was called, was walking, and waiting till a carriage which he had ordered came round from the inn yard.
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