"Etre soul au monde est bien ouneeyoung," she would say, glancing up at a print of a French carbineer in a green coat and brass cuirass which decorated her apartment--"Depend upon it when Master Pendennis goes to College, his Ma will find herself very lonely.

She is quite young yet .-- You wouldn't suppose her to be five-and-twenty.

Monsieur le Cury, song cure est touchy--j'ang suis sure--Je conny cela biang--Ally Monsieur Smirke." He softly blushed; he sighed; he hoped; he feared; he doubted; he sometimes yielded to the delightful idea--his pleasure was to sit in Madame Fribsby's apartment, and talk upon the subject, where, as the greater part of the conversation was carried on in French by the Milliner, and her old mother was deaf, that retired old individual (who had once been a housekeeper, wife and widow of a butler in the Clavering family) could understand scarce one syllable of their talk.
Thus it was, that when Major Pendennis announced to his nephew's tutor that the young fellow would go to College in October, and that Mr.
Smirke's valuable services would no longer be needful to his pupil, for which services the Major, who spoke as grandly as a lord, professed himself exceedingly grateful, and besought Mr.Smirke to command his interests in any way--thus it was, that the Curate felt that the critical moment was come for him, and was racked and tortured by those severe pangs which the occasion warranted.
Madame Fribsby had, of course, taken the strongest interest in the progress of Mr.Pen's love affair with Miss Fotheringay.

She had been over to Chatteris, and having seen that actress perform, had pronounced that she was old and overrated: and had talked over Master Pen's passion in her shop many and many a time to the half-dozen old maids, and old women in male clothes, who are to be found in little country towns, and who formed the genteel population of Clavering.

Captain Glanders, H.P., had pronounced that Pen was going to be a devil of a fellow, and had begun early: Mrs.Glanders had told him to check his horrid observations, and to respect his own wife, if he pleased.