little Josey. The Colonel and his
son and daughter-in-law came to London, not to the bachelor quarters,
where we have seen them, but to an hotel, which they occupied until
their new house could be provided for them, a sumptuous mansion in the
Tyburnian district, and one which became people of their station.

We have been informed already what the Colonel's income was, and have
the gratification of knowing that it was very considerable. The simple
gentleman who would dine off a crust, and wear a coat for ten years,
desired that his children should have the best of everything: ordered
about upholsterers, painters, carriage-makers, in his splendid Indian
way; presented pretty Rosey with brilliant jewels for her introduction
at Court, and was made happy by the sight of the blooming young creature
decked in these magnificences, and admired by all his little circle. The
old boys, the old generals, the old colonels, the old qui-his from the
club, came and paid her their homage; the directors' ladies, and the
generals' ladies, called upon her, and feasted her at vast banquets
served on sumptuous plate. Newcome purchased plate and gave banquets in
return for these hospitalities. Mrs. Clive had a neat close carriage for
evenings, and a splendid barouche to drive in the Park. It was pleasant
to see this equipage at four o'clock of an afternoon, driving up to
Bays's, with Rosey most gorgeously attired reclining within; and to
behold the stately grace of the old gentleman as he stepped out to
welcome his daughter-in-law, and the bow he made before he entered her
carriage. Then they would drive round the Park; round and round and
round; and the old generals, and the old colonels, and old fogies, and
their ladies and daughters, would nod and smile out of their carriages
as they crossed each other upon this charming career of pleasure.

I confess that a dinner at the Colonel's, now he appeared in all his
magnificence, was awfully slow. No peaches could look fresher than
Rosey's cheeks,--no damask was fairer than her pretty little shoulders.
No one, I am sure, could be happier than she, but she did not impart
her happiness to her friends; and replied chiefly by smiles to the
conversation of the gentlemen at her side. It is true that these were
for the most part elderly dignitaries, distinguished military officers
with blue-black whiskers, retired old Indian judges, and the like,
occupied with their victuals, and generally careless to p