Newcome will go into Parliament, and then he will
resume the old barony which has been in abeyance in the family since the reign
of Richard the Third. They had fallen quite, quite low. Mr. Newcome's
grandfather came to London with a satchel on his back, like Whittington. Isn't
it romantic?
    This process has been going on for months. It is not in one day that poor
Lady Clara has been made to forget the past, and to lay aside her mourning. Day
after day, very likely, the undeniable faults and many peccadilloes of - of that
other person have been exposed to her. People around the young lady may desire
to spare her feelings, but can have no interest in screening poor Jack from
condign reprobation. A wild prodigal - a disgrace to his order - a son of old
Highgate's leading such a life, and making such a scandal! Lord Dorking believes
Mr. Belsize to be an abandoned monster and fiend in human shape; gathers and
relates all the stories that ever have been told to the young man's disadvantage
- and of these be sure there are enough - and speaks of him with transports of
indignation. At the end of months of unwearied courtship, Mr. Barnes Newcome is
honestly accepted, and Lady Clara is waiting for him at Baden, not unhappy to
receive him; when, walking on the promenade with her father, the ghost of her
dead love suddenly rises before her, and the young lady faints to the ground.
    When Barnes Newcome thinks fit, he can be perfectly placable in his
demeanour and delicate in his conduct. What he said upon this painful subject
was delivered with the greatest propriety. He did not for one moment consider
that Lady Clara's agitation arose from any present feeling in Mr. Belsize's
favour, but that she was naturally moved by the remembrance of the past, and the
sudden appearance which recalled it. »And but that a lady's name should never be
made the subject of dispute between men,« Newcome said to Lord Dorking with
great dignity, »and that Captain Belsize has opportunely quitted the place, I
should certainly have chastised him. He and another adventurer, against whom I
have had to warn my own family, have quitted Baden this afternoon. I am glad
that both are gone, Captain Belsize especially; for my temper, my lord, is hot,
and I do not think I should have commanded it.«
    Lord Kew, when the elder lord informed him of this admirable speech of
Barnes Newcome's, upon whose character,