Chapter 49
Contains at least six more Courses and two Desserts The banker's dinner-party over, we returned to our apartments, having dropped Major Pendennis at his lodgings, and there, as the custom is amongst most friendly married couples, talked over the company and the dinner. I thought my wife would naturally have liked Sir Barnes Newcome, who was very attentive to her, took her to dinner as the bride, and talked ceaselessly to her during the whole entertainment. Laura said No--she did not know why--could there be any better reason? There was a tone about Sir Barnes Newcome she did not like--especially in his manner to women. I remarked that he spoke sharply and in a sneering manner to his wife, and treated one or two remarks which she made as if she was an i***t. Mrs. Pendennis flung up her
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