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As
for
one
dozen
well-manufactured
silver
spoons
and
forks
at
per
oz.
,
and
one
dozen
dessert
ditto
ditto
,
there
were
three
young
stockbrokers
(
Messrs.
Dale
,
Spiggot
,
and
Dale
,
of
Threadneedle
Street
,
indeed
)
,
who
,
having
had
dealings
with
the
old
man
,
and
kindnesses
from
him
in
days
when
he
was
kind
to
everybody
with
whom
he
dealt
,
sent
this
little
spar
out
of
the
wreck
with
their
love
to
good
Mrs.
Sedley
;
and
with
respect
to
the
piano
,
as
it
had
been
Amelia
's
,
and
as
she
might
miss
it
and
want
one
now
,
and
as
Captain
William
Dobbin
could
no
more
play
upon
it
than
he
could
dance
on
the
tight
rope
,
it
is
probable
that
he
did
not
purchase
the
instrument
for
his
own
use
.
In
a
word
,
it
arrived
that
evening
at
a
wonderful
small
cottage
in
a
street
leading
from
the
Fulham
Road
--
one
of
those
streets
which
have
the
finest
romantic
names
--
(
this
was
called
St.
Adelaide
Villas
,
Anna-Maria
Road
West
)
,
where
the
houses
look
like
baby-houses
;
where
the
people
,
looking
out
of
the
first-floor
windows
,
must
infallibly
,
as
you
think
,
sit
with
their
feet
in
the
parlours
;
where
the
shrubs
in
the
little
gardens
in
front
bloom
with
a
perennial
display
of
little
children
's
pinafores
,
little
red
socks
,
caps
,
&
c.
(
polyandria
polygynia
)
;
whence
you
hear
the
sound
of
jingling
spinets
and
women
singing
;
where
little
porter
pots
hang
on
the
railings
sunning
themselves
;
whither
of
evenings
you
see
City
clerks
padding
wearily
:
here
it
was
that
Mr.
Clapp
,
the
clerk
of
Mr.
Sedley
,
had
his
domicile
,
and
in
this
asylum
the
good
old
gentleman
hid
his
head
with
his
wife
and
daughter
when
the
crash
came
.
Jos
Sedley
had
acted
as
a
man
of
his
disposition
would
,
when
the
announcement
of
the
family
misfortune
reached
him
.
He
did
not
come
to
London
,
but
he
wrote
to
his
mother
to
draw
upon
his
agents
for
whatever
money
was
wanted
,
so
that
his
kind
broken-spirited
old
parents
had
no
present
poverty
to
fear
.
This
done
,
Jos
went
on
at
the
boarding-house
at
Cheltenham
pretty
much
as
before
.
He
drove
his
curricle
;
he
drank
his
claret
;
he
played
his
rubber
;
he
told
his
Indian
stories
,
and
the
Irish
widow
consoled
and
flattered
him
as
usual
.
His
present
of
money
,
needful
as
it
was
,
made
little
impression
on
his
parents
;
and
I
have
heard
Amelia
say
that
the
first
day
on
which
she
saw
her
father
lift
up
his
head
after
the
failure
was
on
the
receipt
of
the
packet
of
forks
and
spoons
with
the
young
stockbrokers
'
love
,
over
which
he
burst
out
crying
like
a
child
,
being
greatly
more
affected
than
even
his
wife
,
to
whom
the
present
was
addressed
.
Edward
Dale
,
the
junior
of
the
house
,
who
purchased
the
spoons
for
the
firm
,
was
,
in
fact
,
very
sweet
upon
Amelia
,
and
offered
for
her
in
spite
of
all
.
He
married
Miss
Louisa
Cutts
(
daughter
of
Higham
and
Cutts
,
the
eminent
cornfactors
)
with
a
handsome
fortune
in
1820
;
and
is
now
living
in
splendour
,
and
with
a
numerous
family
,
at
his
elegant
villa
,
Muswell
Hill
.
But
we
must
not
let
the
recollections
of
this
good
fellow
cause
us
to
diverge
from
the
principal
history
.
I
hope
the
reader
has
much
too
good
an
opinion
of
Captain
and
Mrs.
Crawley
to
suppose
that
they
ever
would
have
dreamed
of
paying
a
visit
to
so
remote
a
district
as
Bloomsbury
,
if
they
thought
the
family
whom
they
proposed
to
honour
with
a
visit
were
not
merely
out
of
fashion
,
but
out
of
money
,
and
could
be
serviceable
to
them
in
no
possible
manner
.
Rebecca
was
entirely
surprised
at
the
sight
of
the
comfortable
old
house
where
she
had
met
with
no
small
kindness
,
ransacked
by
brokers
and
bargainers
,
and
its
quiet
family
treasures
given
up
to
public
desecration
and
plunder
.
A
month
after
her
flight
,
she
had
bethought
her
of
Amelia
,
and
Rawdon
,
with
a
horse-laugh
,
had
expressed
a
perfect
willingness
to
see
young
George
Osborne
again
.
"
He
's
a
very
agreeable
acquaintance
,
Beck
,
"
the
wag
added
.
"
I
'd
like
to
sell
him
another
horse
,
Beck
.
I
'd
like
to
play
a
few
more
games
at
billiards
with
him
.
He
'd
be
what
I
call
useful
just
now
,
Mrs.
C.
--
ha
,
ha
!
"
by
which
sort
of
speech
it
is
not
to
be
supposed
that
Rawdon
Crawley
had
a
deliberate
desire
to
cheat
Mr.
Osborne
at
play
,
but
only
wished
to
take
that
fair
advantage
of
him
which
almost
every
sporting
gentleman
in
Vanity
Fair
considers
to
be
his
due
from
his
neighbour
.
The
old
aunt
was
long
in
"
coming-to
.
"
A
month
had
elapsed
.
Rawdon
was
denied
the
door
by
Mr.
Bowls
;
his
servants
could
not
get
a
lodgment
in
the
house
at
Park
Lane
;
his
letters
were
sent
back
unopened
.
Miss
Crawley
never
stirred
out
--
she
was
unwell
--
and
Mrs.
Bute
remained
still
and
never
left
her
.
Crawley
and
his
wife
both
of
them
augured
evil
from
the
continued
presence
of
Mrs.
Bute
.
"
Gad
,
I
begin
to
perceive
now
why
she
was
always
bringing
us
together
at
Queen
's
Crawley
,
"
Rawdon
said
.
"
What
an
artful
little
woman
!
"
ejaculated
Rebecca
.
"
Well
,
I
do
n't
regret
it
,
if
you
do
n't
,
"
the
Captain
cried
,
still
in
an
amorous
rapture
with
his
wife
,
who
rewarded
him
with
a
kiss
by
way
of
reply
,
and
was
indeed
not
a
little
gratified
by
the
generous
confidence
of
her
husband
.
