I am glad to say that he is now a happy
husband and father too.
The letter from Belle Treherne mentioned having met Clovelly several
times of late, and, with Hungerford's words hot in my mind, I determined,
though I had perfect confidence in her, as in myself, to be married at
Christmas-time. Her account of the courtship of Blackburn and Mrs.
Callendar was as amusing as her description of an evening which the
bookmaker had spent with her father, when he said he was going to marry
an actress whom he had seen at Drury Lane Theatre in a racing drama. This
he subsequently did, and she ran him a break-neck race for many a day,
but never making him unhappy or less resourceful. His verdict, and his
only verdict, upon Mrs. Falchion had been confided to Blackburn, who in
turn confided it to Clovelly, who passed it on to me.
He said: "A woman is like a horse. Make her beautiful, give her a high
temper and a bit of bad luck in her youth, and she'll take her revenge
out of life; even though she runs straight, and wins straight every time;
till she breaks her heart one day over a lost race. After that she is
good to live with for ever.
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