"I daresay Mr.Newcome had plenty of poor relations." "I am sure some on your side, Anne, have been good enough to visit me at the bank," said Sir Brian, who thought his wife's ejaculation was a reflection upon his family, whereas it was the statement of a simple fact in natural history.

"This person was no relation of my father's at all.

She was remotely connected with his first wife, I believe.

She acted as servant to him, and has been most handsomely pensioned by the Colonel." "Who went to her, like a kind, dear, good, brave uncle as he is," cried Ethel; "the very day I go to Newcome I'll go to see her." She caught a look of negation in her father's eye--"I will go--that is, if papa will give me leave," says Miss Ethel.
"By Gad, sir," says Barnes, "I think it is the very best thing she could do; and the best way of doing it, Ethel can go with one of the boys and take Mrs.What-do-you-call'em a gown, or a tract, or that sort of thing, and stop that infernal Independent's mouth." "If we had gone sooner," said Miss Ethel, simply, "there would not have been all this abuse of us in the paper." To which statement her worldly father and brother perforce agreeing, we may congratulate good old Mrs.
Mason upon the new and polite acquaintances she is about to make..