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What
could
Miss
Jane
say
to
such
a
question
,
and
with
her
own
peculiar
views
?
She
could
not
answer
it
,
so
she
parried
it
by
saying
,
"
Well
,
if
you
are
not
a
deceiver
,
at
least
you
are
very
romantic
"
;
and
Captain
William
let
this
observation
pass
without
challenge
.
At
length
when
,
by
the
help
of
farther
polite
speeches
,
he
deemed
that
Miss
Osborne
was
sufficiently
prepared
to
receive
the
whole
news
,
he
poured
it
into
her
ear
.
"
George
could
not
give
up
Amelia
--
George
was
married
to
her
"
--
and
then
he
related
the
circumstances
of
the
marriage
as
we
know
them
already
:
how
the
poor
girl
would
have
died
had
not
her
lover
kept
his
faith
:
how
Old
Sedley
had
refused
all
consent
to
the
match
,
and
a
licence
had
been
got
:
and
Jos
Sedley
had
come
from
Cheltenham
to
give
away
the
bride
:
how
they
had
gone
to
Brighton
in
Jos
's
chariot-and-four
to
pass
the
honeymoon
:
and
how
George
counted
on
his
dear
kind
sisters
to
befriend
him
with
their
father
,
as
women
--
so
true
and
tender
as
they
were
--
assuredly
would
do
.
And
so
,
asking
permission
(
readily
granted
)
to
see
her
again
,
and
rightly
conjecturing
that
the
news
he
had
brought
would
be
told
in
the
next
five
minutes
to
the
other
ladies
,
Captain
Dobbin
made
his
bow
and
took
his
leave
.
He
was
scarcely
out
of
the
house
,
when
Miss
Maria
and
Miss
Wirt
rushed
in
to
Miss
Osborne
,
and
the
whole
wonderful
secret
was
imparted
to
them
by
that
lady
.
To
do
them
justice
,
neither
of
the
sisters
was
very
much
displeased
.
There
is
something
about
a
runaway
match
with
which
few
ladies
can
be
seriously
angry
,
and
Amelia
rather
rose
in
their
estimation
,
from
the
spirit
which
she
had
displayed
in
consenting
to
the
union
.
As
they
debated
the
story
,
and
prattled
about
it
,
and
wondered
what
Papa
would
do
and
say
,
came
a
loud
knock
,
as
of
an
avenging
thunder-clap
,
at
the
door
,
which
made
these
conspirators
start
.
It
must
be
Papa
,
they
thought
.
But
it
was
not
he
.
It
was
only
Mr.
Frederick
Bullock
,
who
had
come
from
the
City
according
to
appointment
,
to
conduct
the
ladies
to
a
flower-show
.
This
gentleman
,
as
may
be
imagined
,
was
not
kept
long
in
ignorance
of
the
secret
.
But
his
face
,
when
he
heard
it
,
showed
an
amazement
which
was
very
different
to
that
look
of
sentimental
wonder
which
the
countenances
of
the
sisters
wore
.
Mr.
Bullock
was
a
man
of
the
world
,
and
a
junior
partner
of
a
wealthy
firm
.
He
knew
what
money
was
,
and
the
value
of
it
:
and
a
delightful
throb
of
expectation
lighted
up
his
little
eyes
,
and
caused
him
to
smile
on
his
Maria
,
as
he
thought
that
by
this
piece
of
folly
of
Mr
George
's
she
might
be
worth
thirty
thousand
pounds
more
than
he
had
ever
hoped
to
get
with
her
.
"
Gad
!
Jane
,
"
said
he
,
surveying
even
the
elder
sister
with
some
interest
,
"
Eels
will
be
sorry
he
cried
off
.
You
may
be
a
fifty
thousand
pounder
yet
.
"
The
sisters
had
never
thought
of
the
money
question
up
to
that
moment
,
but
Fred
Bullock
bantered
them
with
graceful
gaiety
about
it
during
their
forenoon
's
excursion
;
and
they
had
risen
not
a
little
in
their
own
esteem
by
the
time
when
,
the
morning
amusement
over
,
they
drove
back
to
dinner
.
And
do
not
let
my
respected
reader
exclaim
against
this
selfishness
as
unnatural
.
It
was
but
this
present
morning
,
as
he
rode
on
the
omnibus
from
Richmond
;
while
it
changed
horses
,
this
present
chronicler
,
being
on
the
roof
,
marked
three
little
children
playing
in
a
puddle
below
,
very
dirty
,
and
friendly
,
and
happy
.
To
these
three
presently
came
another
little
one
.
"
POLLY
,
"
says
she
,
"
YOUR
SISTER
'S
GOT
A
PENNY
.
"
At
which
the
children
got
up
from
the
puddle
instantly
,
and
ran
off
to
pay
their
court
to
Peggy
.
And
as
the
omnibus
drove
off
I
saw
Peggy
with
the
infantine
procession
at
her
tail
,
marching
with
great
dignity
towards
the
stall
of
a
neighbouring
lollipop-woman
.
So
having
prepared
the
sisters
,
Dobbin
hastened
away
to
the
City
to
perform
the
rest
and
more
difficult
part
of
the
task
which
he
had
undertaken
.
The
idea
of
facing
old
Osborne
rendered
him
not
a
little
nervous
,
and
more
than
once
he
thought
of
leaving
the
young
ladies
to
communicate
the
secret
,
which
,
as
he
was
aware
,
they
could
not
long
retain
.
But
he
had
promised
to
report
to
George
upon
the
manner
in
which
the
elder
Osborne
bore
the
intelligence
;
so
going
into
the
City
to
the
paternal
counting-house
in
Thames
Street
,
he
despatched
thence
a
note
to
Mr.
Osborne
begging
for
a
half-hour
's
conversation
relative
to
the
affairs
of
his
son
George
.
Dobbin
's
messenger
returned
from
Mr.
Osborne
's
house
of
business
,
with
the
compliments
of
the
latter
,
who
would
be
very
happy
to
see
the
Captain
immediately
,
and
away
accordingly
Dobbin
went
to
confront
him
.
The
Captain
,
with
a
half-guilty
secret
to
confess
,
and
with
the
prospect
of
a
painful
and
stormy
interview
before
him
,
entered
Mr.
Osborne
's
offices
with
a
most
dismal
countenance
and
abashed
gait
,
and
,
passing
through
the
outer
room
where
Mr.
Chopper
presided
,
was
greeted
by
that
functionary
from
his
desk
with
a
waggish
air
which
farther
discomfited
him
.
Mr.
Chopper
winked
and
nodded
and
pointed
his
pen
towards
his
patron
's
door
,
and
said
,
"
You
'll
find
the
governor
all
right
,
"
with
the
most
provoking
good
humour
.
