ht; and as I had run away from
Waterloo it followed me to England.

"I cannot come to Newcome just now to shake my dear old friend and nurse
by the hand. I have business in London; and there are those of my name
living in Newcome who would not be very happy to see me and mine.

"But I promise you a visit before very long, and Clive will come with
me; and when we come I shall introduce a new friend to you, a very
pretty little daughter-in-law, whom you must promise to love very
much. She is a Scotch lassie, niece of my oldest friend, James Binnie,
Esquire, of the Bengal Civil Service, who will give her a pretty bit of
siller, and her present name is Miss Rosa Mackenzie.

"We shall send you a wedding cake soon, and a new gown for Keziah (to
whom remember me), and when I am gone, my grandchildren after me will
hear what a dear friend you were to your affectionate Thomas Newcome."

Keziah must have thought that there was something between Clive and my
wife, for when Laura had read the letter she laid it down on the table,
and sitting down by it, and hiding her face in her hands, burst into
tears.

Ethel looked steadily at the two pictures of Clive and his father. Then
she put her hand on her friend's shoulder. "Come, my dear," she said,
"it is growing late, and I must go back to my children." And she saluted
Mrs. Mason and her maid in a very stately manner, and left them, leading
my wife away, who was still exceedingly overcome.

We could not stay long at Rosebury after that. When Madame de Moncontour
heard the news, the good lady cried too. Mrs. Pendennis's emotion
was renewed as we passed the gates of Newcome Park on our way to the
railroad.

CHAPTER LXII. Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome

The friendship between Ethel and Laura, which the last narrated
sentimental occurrences had so much increased, subsists very little
impaired up to the present day. A lady with many domestic interests and
increasing family, etc. etc., cannot be supposed to cultivate female
intimacies out of doors with that ardour and eagerness which young
spinsters exhibit in their intercourse; but Laura, whose kind heart
first led her to sympathise with her young friend in the latter's days
of distress and misfortune, has professed ever since a growing esteem
for Ethel Newcome, and says, that the trials and perhaps grief which the
young lady now had to undergo have brought out the noblest qualities
of her disposition. She is a very differen