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Sedley
has
,
in
the
depths
of
her
kind
heart
,
already
arranged
a
score
of
little
schemes
for
the
settlement
of
her
Amelia
,
so
also
had
our
beloved
but
unprotected
Rebecca
determined
to
do
her
very
best
to
secure
the
husband
,
who
was
even
more
necessary
for
her
than
for
her
friend
.
She
had
a
vivid
imagination
;
she
had
,
besides
,
read
the
Arabian
Nights
and
Guthrie
's
Geography
;
and
it
is
a
fact
that
while
she
was
dressing
for
dinner
,
and
after
she
had
asked
Amelia
whether
her
brother
was
very
rich
,
she
had
built
for
herself
a
most
magnificent
castle
in
the
air
,
of
which
she
was
mistress
,
with
a
husband
somewhere
in
the
background
(
she
had
not
seen
him
as
yet
,
and
his
figure
would
not
therefore
be
very
distinct
)
;
she
had
arrayed
herself
in
an
infinity
of
shawls
,
turbans
,
and
diamond
necklaces
,
and
had
mounted
upon
an
elephant
to
the
sound
of
the
march
in
Bluebeard
,
in
order
to
pay
a
visit
of
ceremony
to
the
Grand
Mogul
.
Charming
Alnaschar
visions
!
it
is
the
happy
privilege
of
youth
to
construct
you
,
and
many
a
fanciful
young
creature
besides
Rebecca
Sharp
has
indulged
in
these
delightful
day-dreams
ere
now
!
Joseph
Sedley
was
twelve
years
older
than
his
sister
Amelia
.
He
was
in
the
East
India
Company
's
Civil
Service
,
and
his
name
appeared
,
at
the
period
of
which
we
write
,
in
the
Bengal
division
of
the
East
India
Register
,
as
collector
of
Boggley
Wollah
,
an
honourable
and
lucrative
post
,
as
everybody
knows
:
in
order
to
know
to
what
higher
posts
Joseph
rose
in
the
service
,
the
reader
is
referred
to
the
same
periodical
.
Boggley
Wollah
is
situated
in
a
fine
,
lonely
,
marshy
,
jungly
district
,
famous
for
snipe-shooting
,
and
where
not
unfrequently
you
may
flush
a
tiger
.
Ramgunge
,
where
there
is
a
magistrate
,
is
only
forty
miles
off
,
and
there
is
a
cavalry
station
about
thirty
miles
farther
;
so
Joseph
wrote
home
to
his
parents
,
when
he
took
possession
of
his
collectorship
.
He
had
lived
for
about
eight
years
of
his
life
,
quite
alone
,
at
this
charming
place
,
scarcely
seeing
a
Christian
face
except
twice
a
year
,
when
the
detachment
arrived
to
carry
off
the
revenues
which
he
had
collected
,
to
Calcutta
.
Luckily
,
at
this
time
he
caught
a
liver
complaint
,
for
the
cure
of
which
he
returned
to
Europe
,
and
which
was
the
source
of
great
comfort
and
amusement
to
him
in
his
native
country
.
He
did
not
live
with
his
family
while
in
London
,
but
had
lodgings
of
his
own
,
like
a
gay
young
bachelor
.
Before
he
went
to
India
he
was
too
young
to
partake
of
the
delightful
pleasures
of
a
man
about
town
,
and
plunged
into
them
on
his
return
with
considerable
assiduity
.
He
drove
his
horses
in
the
Park
;
he
dined
at
the
fashionable
taverns
(
for
the
Oriental
Club
was
not
as
yet
invented
)
;
he
frequented
the
theatres
,
as
the
mode
was
in
those
days
,
or
made
his
appearance
at
the
opera
,
laboriously
attired
in
tights
and
a
cocked
hat
.
On
returning
to
India
,
and
ever
after
,
he
used
to
talk
of
the
pleasure
of
this
period
of
his
existence
with
great
enthusiasm
,
and
give
you
to
understand
that
he
and
Brummel
were
the
leading
bucks
of
the
day
.
But
he
was
as
lonely
here
as
in
his
jungle
at
Boggley
Wollah
.
He
scarcely
knew
a
single
soul
in
the
metropolis
:
and
were
it
not
for
his
doctor
,
and
the
society
of
his
blue-pill
,
and
his
liver
complaint
,
he
must
have
died
of
loneliness
.
He
was
lazy
,
peevish
,
and
a
bon-vivant
;
the
appearance
of
a
lady
frightened
him
beyond
measure
;
hence
it
was
but
seldom
that
he
joined
the
paternal
circle
in
Russell
Square
,
where
there
was
plenty
of
gaiety
,
and
where
the
jokes
of
his
good-natured
old
father
frightened
his
amour-propre
.
His
bulk
caused
Joseph
much
anxious
thought
and
alarm
;
now
and
then
he
would
make
a
desperate
attempt
to
get
rid
of
his
superabundant
fat
;
but
his
indolence
and
love
of
good
living
speedily
got
the
better
of
these
endeavours
at
reform
,
and
he
found
himself
again
at
his
three
meals
a
day
.
He
never
was
well
dressed
;
but
he
took
the
hugest
pains
to
adorn
his
big
person
,
and
passed
many
hours
daily
in
that
occupation
.
His
valet
made
a
fortune
out
of
his
wardrobe
:
his
toilet-table
was
covered
with
as
many
pomatums
and
essences
as
ever
were
employed
by
an
old
beauty
:
he
had
tried
,
in
order
to
give
himself
a
waist
,
every
girth
,
stay
,
and
waistband
then
invented
.
Like
most
fat
men
,
he
would
have
his
clothes
made
too
tight
,
and
took
care
they
should
be
of
the
most
brilliant
colours
and
youthful
cut
.
When
dressed
at
length
,
in
the
afternoon
,
he
would
issue
forth
to
take
a
drive
with
nobody
in
the
Park
;
and
then
would
come
back
in
order
to
dress
again
and
go
and
dine
with
nobody
at
the
Piazza
Coffee-House
.
He
was
as
vain
as
a
girl
;
and
perhaps
his
extreme
shyness
was
one
of
the
results
of
his
extreme
vanity
.
If
Miss
Rebecca
can
get
the
better
of
him
,
and
at
her
first
entrance
into
life
,
she
is
a
young
person
of
no
ordinary
cleverness
.
The
first
move
showed
considerable
skill
.
When
she
called
Sedley
a
very
handsome
man
,
she
knew
that
Amelia
would
tell
her
mother
,
who
would
probably
tell
Joseph
,
or
who
,
at
any
rate
,
would
be
pleased
by
the
compliment
paid
to
her
son
.
All
mothers
are
.
If
you
had
told
Sycorax
that
her
son
Caliban
was
as
handsome
as
Apollo
,
she
would
have
been
pleased
,
witch
as
she
was
.
Perhaps
,
too
,
Joseph
Sedley
would
overhear
the
compliment
--
Rebecca
spoke
loud
enough
--
and
he
did
hear
,
and
(
thinking
in
his
heart
that
he
was
a
very
fine
man
)
the
praise
thrilled
through
every
fibre
of
his
big
body
,
and
made
it
tingle
with
pleasure
.
Then
,
however
,
came
a
recoil
.
"
Is
the
girl
making
fun
of
me
?
"
he
thought
,
and
straightway
he
bounced
towards
the
bell
,
and
was
for
retreating
,
as
we
have
seen
,
when
his
father
's
jokes
and
his
mother
's
entreaties
caused
him
to
pause
and
stay
where
he
was
.
He
conducted
the
young
lady
down
to
dinner
in
a
dubious
and
agitated
frame
of
mind
.
"
Does
she
really
think
I
am
handsome
?
"
thought
he
,
"
or
is
she
only
making
game
of
me
?
"
We
have
talked
of
Joseph
Sedley
being
as
vain
as
a
girl
.
Heaven
help
us
!
the
girls
have
only
to
turn
the
tables
,
and
say
of
one
of
their
own
sex
,
"
She
is
as
vain
as
a
man
,
"
and
they
will
have
perfect
reason
.
The
bearded
creatures
are
quite
as
eager
for
praise
,
quite
as
finikin
over
their
toilettes
,
quite
as
proud
of
their
personal
advantages
,
quite
as
conscious
of
their
powers
of
fascination
,
as
any
coquette
in
the
world
.
Downstairs
,
then
,
they
went
,
Joseph
very
red
and
blushing
,
Rebecca
very
modest
,
and
holding
her
green
eyes
downwards
.
She
was
dressed
in
white
,
with
bare
shoulders
as
white
as
snow
--
the
picture
of
youth
,
unprotected
innocence
,
and
humble
virgin
simplicity
.
"
I
must
be
very
quiet
,
"
thought
Rebecca
,
"
and
very
much
interested
about
India
.
"
