The ancient clan-feeling is good in this,
that it opens a channel whose very existence is a justification for
the flow of simply human feelings along all possible levels of
social position. And I would there were more of it. Only something
better is coming instead of it--a recognition of the infinite
brotherhood in Christ. All other relations, all attempts by
churches, by associations, by secret societies--of Freemasons and
others, are good merely as they tend to destroy themselves in the
wider truth; as they teach men to be dissatisfied with their
limitations. But I wander; for I mentioned Lady Janet now, merely
to account for some of the information I possess concerning Lady
Georgina Betterton.
I met her once at my so-called cousin's, whom she patronized as a
dear old thing. To my mind, she was worth twenty of her, though she
was wrinkled and Scottishly sententious. 'A sweet old bat,' was
another epithet of Lady Georgina's. But she came to see her,
notwithstanding, and did not refuse to share in her nice little
dinners, and least of all, when Falconer was of the party, who had
been so much taken with Lady Janet's behaviour to the Marquis of
Boarshead, just recorded, that he positively cultivated her
acquaintance thereafter.
Lady Georgina was of an old family--an aged family, indeed; so old,
in fact, that some envious people professed to think it decrepit
with age. This, however, may well be questioned if any argument
bearing on the point may be drawn from the person of Lady Georgina.
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