uch clothes for herself and her baby as are actually necessary, won't
you, dear? the plain things, you know--none of the fineries--they may
be packed in a petara or two, and you will take them with you--but
the pomps and vanities, you know, we will leave behind--the pearls
and bracelets, and the plate, and all that rubbish--and I will make an
inventory of them to-morrow when you are gone, and give them up, every
rupee's worth, sir, every anna, by Jove, to the creditors."

The darkness had fallen by this time, and the obsequious butler entered
to light the dining-room lamps. "You have been a very good and kind
servant to us, Martin," says the Colonel, making him a low bow. "I
should like to shake you by the hand. We must part company now, and I
have no doubt you and your fellow servants will find good places, all of
you, as you merit, Martin--as you merit. Great losses have fallen upon
our family--we are ruined, sir--we are ruined! The great Bundelcund
Banking Company has stopped payment in India, and our branch here must
stop on Monday. Thank my friends downstairs for their kindness to me
and my family." Martin bowed in silence with great respect. He and his
comrades in the servants'-hall had been expecting this catastrophe,
quite as long as the Colonel himself who thought he had kept his affairs
so profoundly secret.

Clive went up into his women's apartments, looking with but little
regret, I dare say, round those cheerless nuptial chambers with all
their gaudy fittings; the fine looking-glasses, in which poor Rosey's
little person had been reflected; the silken curtains under which he
had lain by the poor child's side, wakeful and lonely. Here he found his
child's nurse, and his wife, and wife's mother, busily engaged with a
multiplicity of boxes; with flounces, feathers, fal-lals, and finery,
which they were stowing away in this trunk and that; while the baby lay
on its little pink pillow breathing softly, a little pearly fist placed
close to its mouth. The aspect of the tawdry vanities scattered here and
there chafed and annoyed the young man. He kicked the robes over with
his foot. When Mrs. Mackenzie interposed with loud ejaculations, he
sternly bade her to be silent, and not wake the child. His words were
not to be questioned when he spoke in that manner. "You will take
nothing with you, Rosey, but what is strictly necessary--only two or
three of your plainest dresses, and what is required for the boy. What
is