See Collins's Peerage, volume 4, page 242: "Married firstly Sarah, widow of Colonel John Clark, of Exeter, in the county of Devon"-- all a hum, Tommy! If they had said spinster, of Bridewell, in the county of Middlesex, 'twould have been as true! I know what I know.' After that Mr.Thomasson went out of Magdalen, feeling that the world was turning round with him.

If Dunborough were capable of such a step as this--Dunborough, who had seen life and service, and of whose past he knew a good deal--where was he to place dependence?
How was he to trust even the worst of his acquaintances?
The matter shook the pillars of the tutor's house, and filled him with honest disgust.
Moreover, it frightened him.

In certain circumstances he might have found his advantage in fostering such a _mesalliance_.

But here, not only had he reason to think himself distasteful to the young lady whose elevation was in prospect, but he retained too vivid a recollection of Lady Dunborough to hope that that lady would forget or forgive him! Moreover, at the present moment he was much straitened for money; difficulties of long standing were coming to a climax.

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