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Coutts has got the cadet-ship for Pringle Shortreed, in which he was peculiarly interested. I went to the Court for the first time to-day, and, like the man with the large nose, thought everybody was thinking of me and my mishaps. Many were, undoubtedly, and all rather regrettingly; some obviously affected.
As Miss Mellon she was one of my mother's stage contemporaries; a kind-hearted, good-humored, buxom, rather coarse actress, with good looks, and good spirits of a somewhat unrefined sort, which were not without their admirers; among these the old banker, Mr. Coutts, married her, and dying, left her the sole possessor and disposer of his enormous wealth.
And any one who knows the English upper classes must know more than one illustrious instance besides that of Miss Burdett Coutts, or the late Dowager Lady Londonderry in which a woman has proved herself able to use wealth and power as well, or better, than most men. The woman at least is not likely, by gambling, horseracing, and profligacy, to bring herself and her class to shame.
In midwinter we heard of the approach of a battalion of the Second Dragoons, under Major Lawrence Pike Graham, with Captains Rucker, Coutts, Campbell, and others, along. So exhausted were they by their long march from Upper Mexico that we had to send relief to meet them as they approached.
At which there is a great roar. "No; but really what is it?" "Is it arbutus?" sais Simpkins, "I think they make it at Killarney " "No, no; oh! I have it, asbestos; well, that's what I believe the cigars here are made of they won't go." "There are a good many things here that are no go," sais Gage, "like Perry's bills on Coutts; but, Smith, where did you get that flash waistcoat I saw last night?"
The manager at Messrs. Drummond, Coutts and Barclay's, Limited, received Colonel Kelmscott with distinguished consideration. A courteous, conciliatory sort of man, that manager, with his close-shaven face and his spotless shirt-front. "Five minutes, my dear sir?" he exclaimed, with warmth, motioning his visitor blandly into the leather-covered chair. "Half an hour, if you wish it.
The heir to an inevitable fortune, and already vested with substantially stratified deposits at "Coutts" and Glyn, Carr and Glyn's, he would have been envied by most luckless mortals the heavy balances which he always carried at "Grind-lay's," a fortune for any less fortunate man.
They found her on Sunday morning 'Fred Coutts threatened to break every bone in the woman's body, if she touched the children again, put in the father. 'Anyhow, they frightened her, said Jinny. 'But she was nearly as bad with her own two. And anybody can see that she's driven old Bob till he's gone soft. 'Ah, soft as mush, said Jack Goodall.
That is exactly what we reformers are after. Then I shall get a representative more to my taste than Mr. Burdett Coutts. But let me turn now to the views of other people's representatives. Perhaps the most damning thing ever said against the present system, damning because of its empty absurdity, was uttered by Sir Thomas Whittaker.
Coutts and Co. the sum of £.2000 he had placed against it the amount advanced, the transaction leaving me indebted to the Legation in the sum of £.25!" Though the Legation could not have anything to do with the assumed error arising from transactions at Maranham.
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