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THE
CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
APRIL, 1860.
Lovel the Widower.
CHAPTER IV.
A Black Sheep.
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The being for
whom my
friend Dick
Bedford
seemed to
have a special
contempt
and
aversion,
was Mr.
Bulkeley,
the tall footman
in attendance
upon Lovel's
dear mother-in-law.
One
of the causes
of Bedford's
wrath, the
worthy fellow
explained
to me. In the servants' hall, Bulkeley was in the habit of speaking
in disrespectful and satirical terms of his mistress, enlarging upon her
many foibles, and describing her pecuniary difficulties to the many
habitués of that second social circle at Shrublands. The hold which
Mr. Bulkeley had over his lady lay in a long unsettled account of
