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John
Sedley
had
not
the
heart
to
review
the
domestic
establishment
who
have
appeared
now
and
anon
in
our
pages
and
of
whom
he
was
now
forced
by
poverty
to
take
leave
.
The
wages
of
those
worthy
people
were
discharged
with
that
punctuality
which
men
frequently
show
who
only
owe
in
great
sums
--
they
were
sorry
to
leave
good
places
--
but
they
did
not
break
their
hearts
at
parting
from
their
adored
master
and
mistress
.
Amelia
's
maid
was
profuse
in
condolences
,
but
went
off
quite
resigned
to
better
herself
in
a
genteeler
quarter
of
the
town
.
Black
Sambo
,
with
the
infatuation
of
his
profession
,
determined
on
setting
up
a
public-house
.
Honest
old
Mrs.
Blenkinsop
indeed
,
who
had
seen
the
birth
of
Jos
and
Amelia
,
and
the
wooing
of
John
Sedley
and
his
wife
,
was
for
staying
by
them
without
wages
,
having
amassed
a
considerable
sum
in
their
service
:
and
she
accompanied
the
fallen
people
into
their
new
and
humble
place
of
refuge
,
where
she
tended
them
and
grumbled
against
them
for
a
while
.
Of
all
Sedley
's
opponents
in
his
debates
with
his
creditors
which
now
ensued
,
and
harassed
the
feelings
of
the
humiliated
old
gentleman
so
severely
,
that
in
six
weeks
he
oldened
more
than
he
had
done
for
fifteen
years
before
--
the
most
determined
and
obstinate
seemed
to
be
John
Osborne
,
his
old
friend
and
neighbour
--
John
Osborne
,
whom
he
had
set
up
in
life
--
who
was
under
a
hundred
obligations
to
him
--
and
whose
son
was
to
marry
Sedley
's
daughter
.
Any
one
of
these
circumstances
would
account
for
the
bitterness
of
Osborne
's
opposition
.
When
one
man
has
been
under
very
remarkable
obligations
to
another
,
with
whom
he
subsequently
quarrels
,
a
common
sense
of
decency
,
as
it
were
,
makes
of
the
former
a
much
severer
enemy
than
a
mere
stranger
would
be
.
To
account
for
your
own
hard-heartedness
and
ingratitude
in
such
a
case
,
you
are
bound
to
prove
the
other
party
's
crime
.
It
is
not
that
you
are
selfish
,
brutal
,
and
angry
at
the
failure
of
a
speculation
--
no
,
no
--
it
is
that
your
partner
has
led
you
into
it
by
the
basest
treachery
and
with
the
most
sinister
motives
.
From
a
mere
sense
of
consistency
,
a
persecutor
is
bound
to
show
that
the
fallen
man
is
a
villain
--
otherwise
he
,
the
persecutor
,
is
a
wretch
himself
.
And
as
a
general
rule
,
which
may
make
all
creditors
who
are
inclined
to
be
severe
pretty
comfortable
in
their
minds
,
no
men
embarrassed
are
altogether
honest
,
very
likely
.
They
conceal
something
;
they
exaggerate
chances
of
good
luck
;
hide
away
the
real
state
of
affairs
;
say
that
things
are
flourishing
when
they
are
hopeless
,
keep
a
smiling
face
(
a
dreary
smile
it
is
)
upon
the
verge
of
bankruptcy
--
are
ready
to
lay
hold
of
any
pretext
for
delay
or
of
any
money
,
so
as
to
stave
off
the
inevitable
ruin
a
few
days
longer
.
"
Down
with
such
dishonesty
,
"
says
the
creditor
in
triumph
,
and
reviles
his
sinking
enemy
.
"
You
fool
,
why
do
you
catch
at
a
straw
?
"
calm
good
sense
says
to
the
man
that
is
drowning
.
"
You
villain
,
why
do
you
shrink
from
plunging
into
the
irretrievable
Gazette
?
"
says
prosperity
to
the
poor
devil
battling
in
that
black
gulf
.
Who
has
not
remarked
the
readiness
with
which
the
closest
of
friends
and
honestest
of
men
suspect
and
accuse
each
other
of
cheating
when
they
fall
out
on
money
matters
?
Everybody
does
it
.
Everybody
is
right
,
I
suppose
,
and
the
world
is
a
rogue
.
Then
Osborne
had
the
intolerable
sense
of
former
benefits
to
goad
and
irritate
him
:
these
are
always
a
cause
of
hostility
aggravated
.
Finally
,
he
had
to
break
off
the
match
between
Sedley
's
daughter
and
his
son
;
and
as
it
had
gone
very
far
indeed
,
and
as
the
poor
girl
's
happiness
and
perhaps
character
were
compromised
,
it
was
necessary
to
show
the
strongest
reasons
for
the
rupture
,
and
for
John
Osborne
to
prove
John
Sedley
to
be
a
very
bad
character
indeed
.
At
the
meetings
of
creditors
,
then
,
he
comported
himself
with
a
savageness
and
scorn
towards
Sedley
,
which
almost
succeeded
in
breaking
the
heart
of
that
ruined
bankrupt
man
.
On
George
's
intercourse
with
Amelia
he
put
an
instant
veto
--
menacing
the
youth
with
maledictions
if
he
broke
his
commands
,
and
vilipending
the
poor
innocent
girl
as
the
basest
and
most
artful
of
vixens
.
One
of
the
great
conditions
of
anger
and
hatred
is
,
that
you
must
tell
and
believe
lies
against
the
hated
object
,
in
order
,
as
we
said
,
to
be
consistent
.
When
the
great
crash
came
--
the
announcement
of
ruin
,
and
the
departure
from
Russell
Square
,
and
the
declaration
that
all
was
over
between
her
and
George
--
all
over
between
her
and
love
,
her
and
happiness
,
her
and
faith
in
the
world
--
a
brutal
letter
from
John
Osborne
told
her
in
a
few
curt
lines
that
her
father
's
conduct
had
been
of
such
a
nature
that
all
engagements
between
the
families
were
at
an
end
--
when
the
final
award
came
,
it
did
not
shock
her
so
much
as
her
parents
,
as
her
mother
rather
expected
(
for
John
Sedley
himself
was
entirely
prostrate
in
the
ruins
of
his
own
affairs
and
shattered
honour
)
.
Amelia
took
the
news
very
palely
and
calmly
.
