who is dancing with the Major--replies in an animated manner to the
Captain's delightful remarks--takes a little supper--and looks quite
kindly at him before she pulls up the carriage windows.

Clive may not like his cousin Barnes Newcome, and many other men share
in that antipathy, but all ladies do not. It is a fact that Barnes,
when he likes, can make himself a very pleasant fellow. He is dreadfully
satirical, that is certain; but many persons are amused by those
dreadful satirical young men: and to hear fun made of our neighbours,
even of some of our friends, does not make us very angry. Barnes is one
of the very best waltzers in all society, that is the truth; whereas it
must be confessed Some One Else was very heavy and slow, his great foot
always crushing you, and he always begging your pardon. Barnes whirls a
partner round a room ages after she is ready to faint. What wicked fun
he makes of other people when he stops! He is not handsome, but in his
face there is something odd-looking and distinguished. It is certain he
has beautiful small feet and hands.

He comes every day from the City, drops in, in his quiet unobtrusive
way, and drinks tea at five o'clock; always brings a budget of the
funniest stories with him, makes mamma laugh, Clara laugh, Henrietta,
who is in the schoolroom still, die of laughing. Papa has the highest
opinion of Mr. Newcome as a man of business: if he had had such a friend
in early life his affairs would not be where they now are, poor dear
kind papa! Do they want to go anywhere, is not Mr. Newcome always ready?
Did he not procure that delightful room for them to witness the Lord
Mayor's show; and make Clara die of laughing at those odd City people at
the Mansion House ball? He is at every party, and never tired though he
gets up so early: he waltzes with nobody else: he is always there to put
Lady Clara in the carriage: at the drawing-room he looked quite handsome
in his uniform of the Newcome Hussars, bottle-green and silver lace:
he speaks Politics so exceedingly well with papa and gentlemen after
dinner: he is a sound conservative, full of practical good sense and
information, with no dangerous new-fangled ideas, such as young men
have. When poor dear Sir Brian Newcome's health gives way quite, Mr.
Newcome will go into Parliament, and then he will resume the old barony
which has been in abeyance in the family since the reign of Richard the
Third. They had fallen quite, quite low. M