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--
his
letters
from
the
West
Indies
--
his
agent
's
letters
,
and
the
newspapers
containing
his
commissions
:
here
was
a
whip
he
had
when
a
boy
,
and
in
a
paper
a
locket
containing
his
hair
,
which
his
mother
used
to
wear
.
Turning
one
over
after
another
,
and
musing
over
these
memorials
,
the
unhappy
man
passed
many
hours
.
His
dearest
vanities
,
ambitious
hopes
,
had
all
been
here
.
What
pride
he
had
in
his
boy
!
He
was
the
handsomest
child
ever
seen
.
Everybody
said
he
was
like
a
nobleman
's
son
.
A
royal
princess
had
remarked
him
,
and
kissed
him
,
and
asked
his
name
in
Kew
Gardens
.
What
City
man
could
show
such
another
?
Could
a
prince
have
been
better
cared
for
?
Anything
that
money
could
buy
had
been
his
son
's
.
He
used
to
go
down
on
speech-days
with
four
horses
and
new
liveries
,
and
scatter
new
shillings
among
the
boys
at
the
school
where
George
was
:
when
he
went
with
George
to
the
depot
of
his
regiment
,
before
the
boy
embarked
for
Canada
,
he
gave
the
officers
such
a
dinner
as
the
Duke
of
York
might
have
sat
down
to
.
Had
he
ever
refused
a
bill
when
George
drew
one
?
There
they
were
--
paid
without
a
word
.
Many
a
general
in
the
army
could
n't
ride
the
horses
he
had
!
He
had
the
child
before
his
eyes
,
on
a
hundred
different
days
when
he
remembered
George
after
dinner
,
when
he
used
to
come
in
as
bold
as
a
lord
and
drink
off
his
glass
by
his
father
's
side
,
at
the
head
of
the
table
--
on
the
pony
at
Brighton
,
when
he
cleared
the
hedge
and
kept
up
with
the
huntsman
--
on
the
day
when
he
was
presented
to
the
Prince
Regent
at
the
levee
,
when
all
Saint
James
's
could
n't
produce
a
finer
young
fellow
.
And
this
,
this
was
the
end
of
all
!
--
to
marry
a
bankrupt
and
fly
in
the
face
of
duty
and
fortune
!
What
humiliation
and
fury
:
what
pangs
of
sickening
rage
,
balked
ambition
and
love
;
what
wounds
of
outraged
vanity
,
tenderness
even
,
had
this
old
worldling
now
to
suffer
under
!
Having
examined
these
papers
,
and
pondered
over
this
one
and
the
other
,
in
that
bitterest
of
all
helpless
woe
,
with
which
miserable
men
think
of
happy
past
times
--
George
's
father
took
the
whole
of
the
documents
out
of
the
drawer
in
which
he
had
kept
them
so
long
,
and
locked
them
into
a
writing-box
,
which
he
tied
,
and
sealed
with
his
seal
.
Then
he
opened
the
book-case
,
and
took
down
the
great
red
Bible
we
have
spoken
of
a
pompous
book
,
seldom
looked
at
,
and
shining
all
over
with
gold
.
There
was
a
frontispiece
to
the
volume
,
representing
Abraham
sacrificing
Isaac
.
Here
,
according
to
custom
,
Osborne
had
recorded
on
the
fly-leaf
,
and
in
his
large
clerk-like
hand
,
the
dates
of
his
marriage
and
his
wife
's
death
,
and
the
births
and
Christian
names
of
his
children
.
Jane
came
first
,
then
George
Sedley
Osborne
,
then
Maria
Frances
,
and
the
days
of
the
christening
of
each
.
Taking
a
pen
,
he
carefully
obliterated
George
's
names
from
the
page
;
and
when
the
leaf
was
quite
dry
,
restored
the
volume
to
the
place
from
which
he
had
moved
it
.
Then
he
took
a
document
out
of
another
drawer
,
where
his
own
private
papers
were
kept
;
and
having
read
it
,
crumpled
it
up
and
lighted
it
at
one
of
the
candles
,
and
saw
it
burn
entirely
away
in
the
grate
.
It
was
his
will
;
which
being
burned
,
he
sate
down
and
wrote
off
a
letter
,
and
rang
for
his
servant
,
whom
he
charged
to
deliver
it
in
the
morning
.
It
was
morning
already
:
as
he
went
up
to
bed
,
the
whole
house
was
alight
with
the
sunshine
;
and
the
birds
were
singing
among
the
fresh
green
leaves
in
Russell
Square
.
Anxious
to
keep
all
Mr.
Osborne
's
family
and
dependants
in
good
humour
,
and
to
make
as
many
friends
as
possible
for
George
in
his
hour
of
adversity
,
William
Dobbin
,
who
knew
the
effect
which
good
dinners
and
good
wines
have
upon
the
soul
of
man
,
wrote
off
immediately
on
his
return
to
his
inn
the
most
hospitable
of
invitations
to
Thomas
Chopper
,
Esquire
,
begging
that
gentleman
to
dine
with
him
at
the
Slaughters
'
next
day
.
The
note
reached
Mr.
Chopper
before
he
left
the
City
,
and
the
instant
reply
was
,
that
"
Mr.
Chopper
presents
his
respectful
compliments
,
and
will
have
the
honour
and
pleasure
of
waiting
on
Captain
D.
"
The
invitation
and
the
rough
draft
of
the
answer
were
shown
to
Mrs.
Chopper
and
her
daughters
on
his
return
to
Somers
'
Town
that
evening
,
and
they
talked
about
military
gents
and
West
End
men
with
great
exultation
as
the
family
sate
and
partook
of
tea
.
When
the
girls
had
gone
to
rest
,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
C.
discoursed
upon
the
strange
events
which
were
occurring
in
the
governor
's
family
.
Never
had
the
clerk
seen
his
principal
so
moved
.
When
he
went
in
to
Mr.
Osborne
,
after
Captain
Dobbin
's
departure
,
Mr.
Chopper
found
his
chief
black
in
the
face
,
and
all
but
in
a
fit
:
some
dreadful
quarrel
,
he
was
certain
,
had
occurred
between
Mr.
O.
and
the
young
Captain
.
Chopper
had
been
instructed
to
make
out
an
account
of
all
sums
paid
to
Captain
Osborne
within
the
last
three
years
.
"
And
a
precious
lot
of
money
he
has
had
too
,
"
the
chief
clerk
said
,
and
respected
his
old
and
young
master
the
more
,
for
the
liberal
way
in
which
the
guineas
had
been
flung
about
.
The
dispute
was
something
about
Miss
Sedley
.
Mrs.
Chopper
vowed
and
declared
she
pitied
that
poor
young
lady
to
lose
such
a
handsome
young
fellow
as
the
Capting
.
As
the
daughter
of
an
unlucky
speculator
,
who
had
paid
a
very
shabby
dividend
,
Mr.
Chopper
had
no
great
regard
for
Miss
Sedley
.
He
respected
the
house
of
Osborne
before
all
others
in
the
City
of
London
:
and
his
hope
and
wish
was
that
Captain
George
should
marry
a
nobleman
's
daughter
.
The
clerk
slept
a
great
deal
sounder
than
his
principal
that
night
;
and
,
cuddling
his
children
after
breakfast
(
of
which
he
partook
with
a
very
hearty
appetite
,
though
his
modest
cup
of
life
was
only
sweetened
with
brown
sugar
)
,
he
set
off
in
his
best
Sunday
suit
and
frilled
shirt
for
business
,
promising
his
admiring
wife
not
to
punish
Captain
D.
'
s
port
too
severely
that
evening
.
Mr.
Osborne
's
countenance
,
when
he
arrived
in
the
City
at
his
usual
time
,
struck
those
dependants
who
were
accustomed
,
for
good
reasons
,
to
watch
its
expression
,
as
peculiarly
ghastly
and
worn
.
At
twelve
o'clock
Mr.
Higgs
(
of
the
firm
of
Higgs
&
Blatherwick
,
solicitors
,
Bedford
Row
)
called
by
appointment
,
and
was
ushered
into
the
governor
's
private
room
,
and
closeted
there
for
more
than
an
hour
.
At
about
one
Mr.
Chopper
received
a
note
brought
by
Captain
Dobbin
's
man
,
and
containing
an
inclosure
for
Mr.
Osborne
,
which
the
clerk
went
in
and
delivered
.
A
short
time
afterwards
Mr.
Chopper
and
Mr.
Birch
,
the
next
clerk
,
were
summoned
,
and
requested
to
witness
a
paper
.
"
I
've
been
making
a
new
will
,
"
Mr.
Osborne
said
,
to
which
these
gentlemen
appended
their
names
accordingly
.
No
conversation
passed
.
Mr.
Higgs
looked
exceedingly
grave
as
he
came
into
the
outer
rooms
,
and
very
hard
in
Mr.
Chopper
's
face
;
but
there
were
not
any
explanations
.
It
was
remarked
that
Mr.
Osborne
was
particularly
quiet
and
gentle
all
day
,
to
the
surprise
of
those
who
had
augured
ill
from
his
darkling
demeanour
.
He
called
no
man
names
that
day
,
and
was
not
heard
to
swear
once
.
He
left
business
early
;
and
before
going
away
,
summoned
his
chief
clerk
once
more
,
and
having
given
him
general
instructions
,
asked
him
,
after
some
seeming
hesitation
and
reluctance
to
speak
,
if
he
knew
whether
Captain
Dobbin
was
in
town
?
