family, that second Lady Henrietta
Pulleyn, whom we described as frisking about at Baden, and not in the
least afraid of him. How little the reader knew, to whom we introduced
the girl in that chatty offhand way, that one day the young creature
would be a countess! But we knew it all the while--and, when she was
walking about with the governess, or romping with her sisters; and
when she had dinner at one o'clock; and when she wore a pinafore very
likely--we secretly respected her as the future Countess of Kew, and
mother of the Viscount Walham.

Lord Kew was very happy with his bride, and very good to her. He took
Lady Kew to Paris, for a marriage trip; but they lived almost altogether
at Kewbury afterwards, where his lordship sowed tame oats now after his
wild ones, and became one of the most active farmers of his county. He
and the Newcomes were not very intimate friends; for Lord Kew was heard
to say that he disliked Barnes more after his marriage than before. And
the two sisters, Lady Clara and Lady Kew, had a quarrel on one occasion,
when the latter visited London just before the dinner at which we have
just assisted--nay, at which we are just assisting, took place,--a
quarrel about Highgate's attentions to Ethel, very likely. Kew was
dragged into it, and hot words passed between him and Jack Belsize; and
Jack did not go down to Kewbury afterwards, though Kew's little boy was
christened after him. All these interesting details about people of the
very highest rank, we are supposed to whisper in the reader's ear as
we are sitting at a Belgravian dinner-table. My dear Barmecide friend,
isn't it pleasant to be in such fine company?

And now we must tell how it is that Clive Newcome, Esq., whose eyes are
flashing fire across the flowers of the table at Lord Highgate, who is
making himself so agreeable to Miss Ethel--now we must tell how it is
that Clive and his cousin Barnes have grown to be friends again.

The Bundelcund Bank, which had been established for four years, had
now grown to be one of the most flourishing commercial institutions in
Bengal. Founded, as the prospectus announced, at a time when all private
credit was shaken by the failure of the great Agency Houses, of which
the downfall had carried dismay and ruin throughout the Presidency, the
B. B. had been established on the only sound principle of commercial
prosperity--that is association. The native capitalists, headed by the
great firm of Rummun Loll