present
position of Mr. James Binnie's soul; and that Heaven may have some
regions yet accessible to James, which Mr. M'Craw's intellect has not
yet explored. Look, gentlemen! Does a week pass without the announcement
of the discovery of a new comet in the sky, a new star in the heaven,
twinkling dimly out of a yet farther distance, and only now becoming
visible to human ken though existent for ever and ever? So let us hope
divine truths may be shining, and regions of light and love extant,
which Geneva glasses cannot yet perceive, and are beyond the focus of
Roman telescopes.

I think Clive and the Colonel were more affected by the news of James's
death than Rosey, concerning whose wonderful strength of mind good
Thomas Newcome discoursed to my Laura and me, when, fancying that my
friend's wife needed comfort and consolation, Mrs. Pendennis went to
visit her. "Of course we shall have no more parties this year," sighed
Rosey. She looked very pretty in her black dress. Clive, in his hearty
way, said a hundred kind feeling things about the departed friend.
Thomas Newcome's recollections of him, and regret, were no less tender
and sincere. "See," says he, "how that dear child's sense of duty makes
her hide her feelings! Her grief is most deep, but she wears a calm
countenance. I see her looking sad in private, but I no sooner speak
than she smiles." "I think," said Laura, as we came away, "that Colonel
Newcome performs all the courtship part in the marriage, and Clive, poor
Clive, though he spoke very nobly and generously about Mr. Binnie, I
am sure it is not his old friend's death merely, which makes him so
unhappy."

Poor Clive, by right of his wife, was now rich Clive; the little lady
having inherited from her kind relative no inconsiderable sum of money.
In a very early part of this story, mention has been made of a small sum
producing one hundred pounds a year, which Clive's father had made over
to the lad when he sent him from India. This little sum Mr. Clive had
settled upon his wife before his marriage, being indeed all he had of
his own; for the famous bank shares which his father presented to him,
were only made over formally when the young man came to London after
his marriage, and at the paternal request and order appeared as a
most inefficient director of the B. B. C. Now Mrs. Newcome, of her
inheritance, possessed not only B. B. C. shares, but moneys in bank, and
shares in East India Stock, so that Clive in