Chapter 72The honorable John Yates, this new friend, did not recommend much, apart from fashion and cost, and since he was the younger son of a lord with a tolerable independence; and Sir Thomas would probably not have considered his introduction to Mansfield to be desirable at all. Mr. Schmidt's acquaintance with him had begun in Weymouth, where they had spent ten days together in the same company, and the friendship, if you could call it friendship, had been proven and perfected by Mr. Yates' invitation to accept Mansfield into his way whenever he could, and by his promise to come; and he came earlier than expected, as a result of the sudden dissolution of a large group that had gathered to celebrate at another friend's house and to which he had left Weymouth to join. He came on the wing
