I can no longer endure the place.

The remembrance of your kindness only, sweetens the bitterness of my regret, and that I shall bear with me so long, Madam, as life remains.' And saying this, as Mr.Richardson writes, 'he bowed upon her passive hand,' and Miss Rebecca made him a grand and gracious courtesy.
As he retreated, whom should Dominick announce but Captain Cluffe and Lieutenant Puddock.

And there was an odd smile on Mr.Dangerfield's visage, as he slightly acknowledged them in passing, which Aunt Rebecca somehow did not like.
So Aunt Becky's levee went on; and as Homer, in our school-boy ear, sang the mournful truth, that 'as are the generations of the forest leaves so are the succession of men,' the Dangerfield efflorescence had no sooner disappeared, and that dry leaf whisked away down the stairs, than Cluffe and Puddock budded forth and bloomed in his place, in the sunshine of Aunt Rebecca's splendid presence.
Cluffe, in virtue of his rank and pretensions, marched in the van, and, as Aunt Becky received him, little Puddock's round eyes swept the room in search, perhaps, of some absent object.
'The general's not here,' said Aunt Becky loftily and severely, interpreting Puddock's wandering glance in that way.

'Your visit, perhaps, is for him--you'll find him in his study, with the orderly.' 'My visit, Madam,' said Puddock, with a slight blush, 'was intended for you, Madam--not for the general, whom I had the honour of seeing this morning on parade.' 'Oh! for me?
I thank you,' said Aunt Rebecca, with a rather dry acknowledgment.

And so she turned and chatted with Cluffe, who, not being at liberty to talk upon his usual theme--his poor, unhappy friend, Puddock, and his disgraces--was eloquent upon the monkey, and sweet upon the lap-dogs, and laughed till he grew purple at the humours of the parrot, and swore, as gentlemen then swore, 'twas a conjuror, a wonder, and as good as a play.