st and most authentic account of the young
folks to their parents in India; spent a week at Marble Hill, and shot
partridges there, but for which entertainment, Clive said, the place
would have been intolerable; and thence proceeded to Brighton to pass
a little time with good Miss Honeyman. As for Sir Brian's family, when
Parliament broke up, of course, they did not stay in town. Barnes, of
course, had part of a moor in Scotland, whither his uncle and cousin
did not follow him. The rest went abroad. Sir Brian wanted the waters of
Aix-la-Chapelle. The brothers parted very good friends; Lady Anne, and
all the young people, heartily wished him farewell. I believe Sir Brian
even accompanied the Colonel downstairs from the drawing-room, in Park
Lane, and actually came out and saw his brother into his cab (just as he
would accompany old Lady Bagges when she came to look at her account at
the bank, from the parlour to her carriage). But as for Ethel, she was
not going to be put off with this sort of parting and the next morning a
cab dashed up to Fitzroy Square, and a veiled lady came out thence, and
was closeted with Colonel Newcome for five minutes, and when he led her
back to the carriage there were tears in his eyes.

Mrs. Mackenzie joked about the transaction (having watched it from the
dining-room windows), and asked the Colonel who his sweetheart was?
Newcome replied very sternly, that he hoped no one would ever speak
lightly of that young lady, whom he loved as his own daughter; and I
thought Rosey looked vexed at the praises thus bestowed. This was the
day before we all went down to Brighton. Miss Honeyman's lodgings were
taken for Mr. Binnie and his ladies. Clive and her dearest Colonel had
apartments next door. Charles Honeyman came dawn and preached one of his
very best sermons. Fred Bayham was there, and looked particularly grand
and noble on the pier and the cliff. I am inclined to think he had had
some explanation with Thomas Newcome, which had placed F. B. in a state
of at least temporary prosperity. Whom did he not benefit whom he knew,
and what eye that saw him did not bless him? F. B. was greatly affected
at Charles's sermon, of which our party of course could see the
allusions. Tears actually rolled down his brown cheeks; for Fred was a
man very easily moved, and, as it were, a softened sinner. Little Rosey
and her mother sobbed audibly, greatly to the surprise of stout old
Miss Honeyman, who had no idea of