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"
"
Will
my
dear
Miss
Crawley
not
cast
an
eye
of
compassion
upon
the
heroic
soldier
,
whose
name
is
inscribed
in
the
annals
of
his
country
's
glory
?
"
said
Miss
Briggs
,
who
was
greatly
excited
by
the
Waterloo
proceedings
,
and
loved
speaking
romantically
when
there
was
an
occasion
.
"
Has
not
the
Captain
--
or
the
Colonel
as
I
may
now
style
him
--
done
deeds
which
make
the
name
of
Crawley
illustrious
?
"
"
Briggs
,
you
are
a
fool
,
"
said
Miss
Crawley
:
"
Colonel
Crawley
has
dragged
the
name
of
Crawley
through
the
mud
,
Miss
Briggs
.
Marry
a
drawing-master
's
daughter
,
indeed
!
--
marry
a
dame
de
compagnie
--
for
she
was
no
better
,
Briggs
;
no
,
she
was
just
what
you
are
--
only
younger
,
and
a
great
deal
prettier
and
cleverer
.
Were
you
an
accomplice
of
that
abandoned
wretch
,
I
wonder
,
of
whose
vile
arts
he
became
a
victim
,
and
of
whom
you
used
to
be
such
an
admirer
?
Yes
,
I
daresay
you
were
an
accomplice
.
But
you
will
find
yourself
disappointed
in
my
will
,
I
can
tell
you
:
and
you
will
have
the
goodness
to
write
to
Mr.
Waxy
,
and
say
that
I
desire
to
see
him
immediately
.
"
Miss
Crawley
was
now
in
the
habit
of
writing
to
Mr.
Waxy
her
solicitor
almost
every
day
in
the
week
,
for
her
arrangements
respecting
her
property
were
all
revoked
,
and
her
perplexity
was
great
as
to
the
future
disposition
of
her
money
.
The
spinster
had
,
however
,
rallied
considerably
;
as
was
proved
by
the
increased
vigour
and
frequency
of
her
sarcasms
upon
Miss
Briggs
,
all
which
attacks
the
poor
companion
bore
with
meekness
,
with
cowardice
,
with
a
resignation
that
was
half
generous
and
half
hypocritical
--
with
the
slavish
submission
,
in
a
word
,
that
women
of
her
disposition
and
station
are
compelled
to
show
.
Who
has
not
seen
how
women
bully
women
?
What
tortures
have
men
to
endure
,
comparable
to
those
daily
repeated
shafts
of
scorn
and
cruelty
with
which
poor
women
are
riddled
by
the
tyrants
of
their
sex
?
Poor
victims
!
But
we
are
starting
from
our
proposition
,
which
is
,
that
Miss
Crawley
was
always
particularly
annoying
and
savage
when
she
was
rallying
from
illness
--
as
they
say
wounds
tingle
most
when
they
are
about
to
heal
.
While
thus
approaching
,
as
all
hoped
,
to
convalescence
,
Miss
Briggs
was
the
only
victim
admitted
into
the
presence
of
the
invalid
;
yet
Miss
Crawley
's
relatives
afar
off
did
not
forget
their
beloved
kinswoman
,
and
by
a
number
of
tokens
,
presents
,
and
kind
affectionate
messages
,
strove
to
keep
themselves
alive
in
her
recollection
.
In
the
first
place
,
let
us
mention
her
nephew
,
Rawdon
Crawley
.
A
few
weeks
after
the
famous
fight
of
Waterloo
,
and
after
the
Gazette
had
made
known
to
her
the
promotion
and
gallantry
of
that
distinguished
officer
,
the
Dieppe
packet
brought
over
to
Miss
Crawley
at
Brighton
,
a
box
containing
presents
,
and
a
dutiful
letter
,
from
the
Colonel
her
nephew
.
In
the
box
were
a
pair
of
French
epaulets
,
a
Cross
of
the
Legion
of
Honour
,
and
the
hilt
of
a
sword
--
relics
from
the
field
of
battle
:
and
the
letter
described
with
a
good
deal
of
humour
how
the
latter
belonged
to
a
commanding
officer
of
the
Guard
,
who
having
sworn
that
"
the
Guard
died
,
but
never
surrendered
,
"
was
taken
prisoner
the
next
minute
by
a
private
soldier
,
who
broke
the
Frenchman
's
sword
with
the
butt
of
his
musket
,
when
Rawdon
made
himself
master
of
the
shattered
weapon
.
As
for
the
cross
and
epaulets
,
they
came
from
a
Colonel
of
French
cavalry
,
who
had
fallen
under
the
aide-de-camp
's
arm
in
the
battle
:
and
Rawdon
Crawley
did
not
know
what
better
to
do
with
the
spoils
than
to
send
them
to
his
kindest
and
most
affectionate
old
friend
.
Should
he
continue
to
write
to
her
from
Paris
,
whither
the
army
was
marching
?
He
might
be
able
to
give
her
interesting
news
from
that
capital
,
and
of
some
of
Miss
Crawley
's
old
friends
of
the
emigration
,
to
whom
she
had
shown
so
much
kindness
during
their
distress
.
The
spinster
caused
Briggs
to
write
back
to
the
Colonel
a
gracious
and
complimentary
letter
,
encouraging
him
to
continue
his
correspondence
.
His
first
letter
was
so
excessively
lively
and
amusing
that
she
should
look
with
pleasure
for
its
successors
.
--
"
Of
course
,
I
know
,
"
she
explained
to
Miss
Briggs
,
"
that
Rawdon
could
not
write
such
a
good
letter
any
more
than
you
could
,
my
poor
Briggs
,
and
that
it
is
that
clever
little
wretch
of
a
Rebecca
,
who
dictates
every
word
to
him
;
but
that
is
no
reason
why
my
nephew
should
not
amuse
me
;
and
so
I
wish
to
let
him
understand
that
I
am
in
high
good
humour
.
"
I
wonder
whether
she
knew
that
it
was
not
only
Becky
who
wrote
the
letters
,
but
that
Mrs.
Rawdon
actually
took
and
sent
home
the
trophies
which
she
bought
for
a
few
francs
,
from
one
of
the
innumerable
pedlars
who
immediately
began
to
deal
in
relics
of
the
war
.
The
novelist
,
who
knows
everything
,
knows
this
also
.
Be
this
,
however
,
as
it
may
,
Miss
Crawley
's
gracious
reply
greatly
encouraged
our
young
friends
,
Rawdon
and
his
lady
,
who
hoped
for
the
best
from
their
aunt
's
evidently
pacified
humour
:
and
they
took
care
to
entertain
her
with
many
delightful
letters
from
Paris
,
whither
,
as
Rawdon
said
,
they
had
the
good
luck
to
go
in
the
track
of
the
conquering
army
.
