22/29 She stole a glance at Caroline, and was alarmed at her excessive pallor. 'When old Mel was alive, he and I had plenty of sparring, and that--but he's dead, and I'll do him justice. I spoke of Burley Bennet just now. Now, my lady, old Burley was, I think, Mel's half-brother, and he came, I know, somewhere out of Drury Lane-one of the courts near the theatre--I don't know much of London. However, old Mel wouldn't have that. |