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The
artful
diplomatist
and
disciple
of
the
Machiavellian
Binkie
!
It
was
he
who
had
given
Lady
Jane
that
copy
of
poor
Briggs
's
early
poems
,
which
he
remembered
to
have
seen
at
Queen
's
Crawley
,
with
a
dedication
from
the
poetess
to
his
father
's
late
wife
;
and
he
brought
the
volume
with
him
to
Brighton
,
reading
it
in
the
Southampton
coach
and
marking
it
with
his
own
pencil
,
before
he
presented
it
to
the
gentle
Lady
Jane
.
It
was
he
,
too
,
who
laid
before
Lady
Southdown
the
great
advantages
which
might
occur
from
an
intimacy
between
her
family
and
Miss
Crawley
--
advantages
both
worldly
and
spiritual
,
he
said
:
for
Miss
Crawley
was
now
quite
alone
;
the
monstrous
dissipation
and
alliance
of
his
brother
Rawdon
had
estranged
her
affections
from
that
reprobate
young
man
;
the
greedy
tyranny
and
avarice
of
Mrs.
Bute
Crawley
had
caused
the
old
lady
to
revolt
against
the
exorbitant
pretensions
of
that
part
of
the
family
;
and
though
he
himself
had
held
off
all
his
life
from
cultivating
Miss
Crawley
's
friendship
,
with
perhaps
an
improper
pride
,
he
thought
now
that
every
becoming
means
should
be
taken
,
both
to
save
her
soul
from
perdition
,
and
to
secure
her
fortune
to
himself
as
the
head
of
the
house
of
Crawley
.
The
strong-minded
Lady
Southdown
quite
agreed
in
both
proposals
of
her
son-in-law
,
and
was
for
converting
Miss
Crawley
off-hand
.
At
her
own
home
,
both
at
Southdown
and
at
Trottermore
Castle
,
this
tall
and
awful
missionary
of
the
truth
rode
about
the
country
in
her
barouche
with
outriders
,
launched
packets
of
tracts
among
the
cottagers
and
tenants
,
and
would
order
Gaffer
Jones
to
be
converted
,
as
she
would
order
Goody
Hicks
to
take
a
James
's
powder
,
without
appeal
,
resistance
,
or
benefit
of
clergy
.
My
Lord
Southdown
,
her
late
husband
,
an
epileptic
and
simple-minded
nobleman
,
was
in
the
habit
of
approving
of
everything
which
his
Matilda
did
and
thought
.
So
that
whatever
changes
her
own
belief
might
undergo
(
and
it
accommodated
itself
to
a
prodigious
variety
of
opinion
,
taken
from
all
sorts
of
doctors
among
the
Dissenters
)
she
had
not
the
least
scruple
in
ordering
all
her
tenants
and
inferiors
to
follow
and
believe
after
her
.
Thus
whether
she
received
the
Reverend
Saunders
McNitre
,
the
Scotch
divine
;
or
the
Reverend
Luke
Waters
,
the
mild
Wesleyan
;
or
the
Reverend
Giles
Jowls
,
the
illuminated
Cobbler
,
who
dubbed
himself
Reverend
as
Napoleon
crowned
himself
Emperor
--
the
household
,
children
,
tenantry
of
my
Lady
Southdown
were
expected
to
go
down
on
their
knees
with
her
Ladyship
,
and
say
Amen
to
the
prayers
of
either
Doctor
.
During
these
exercises
old
Southdown
,
on
account
of
his
invalid
condition
,
was
allowed
to
sit
in
his
own
room
,
and
have
negus
and
the
paper
read
to
him
.
Lady
Jane
was
the
old
Earl
's
favourite
daughter
,
and
tended
him
and
loved
him
sincerely
:
as
for
Lady
Emily
,
the
authoress
of
the
"
Washerwoman
of
Finchley
Common
,
"
her
denunciations
of
future
punishment
(
at
this
period
,
for
her
opinions
modified
afterwards
)
were
so
awful
that
they
used
to
frighten
the
timid
old
gentleman
her
father
,
and
the
physicians
declared
his
fits
always
occurred
after
one
of
her
Ladyship
's
sermons
.
"
I
will
certainly
call
,
"
said
Lady
Southdown
then
,
in
reply
to
the
exhortation
of
her
daughter
's
pretendu
,
Mr.
Pitt
Crawley
--
"
Who
is
Miss
Crawley
's
medical
man
?
"
Mr.
Crawley
mentioned
the
name
of
Mr.
Creamer
.
"
A
most
dangerous
and
ignorant
practitioner
,
my
dear
Pitt
.
I
have
providentially
been
the
means
of
removing
him
from
several
houses
:
though
in
one
or
two
instances
I
did
not
arrive
in
time
.
I
could
not
save
poor
dear
General
Glanders
,
who
was
dying
under
the
hands
of
that
ignorant
man
--
dying
.
He
rallied
a
little
under
the
Podgers
'
pills
which
I
administered
to
him
;
but
alas
!
it
was
too
late
.
His
death
was
delightful
,
however
;
and
his
change
was
only
for
the
better
;
Creamer
,
my
dear
Pitt
,
must
leave
your
aunt
.
"
Pitt
expressed
his
perfect
acquiescence
.
He
,
too
,
had
been
carried
along
by
the
energy
of
his
noble
kinswoman
,
and
future
mother-in-law
.
He
had
been
made
to
accept
Saunders
McNitre
,
Luke
Waters
,
Giles
Jowls
,
Podgers
'
Pills
,
Rodgers
'
Pills
,
Pokey
's
Elixir
,
every
one
of
her
Ladyship
's
remedies
spiritual
or
temporal
.
He
never
left
her
house
without
carrying
respectfully
away
with
him
piles
of
her
quack
theology
and
medicine
.
O
,
my
dear
brethren
and
fellow-sojourners
in
Vanity
Fair
,
which
among
you
does
not
know
and
suffer
under
such
benevolent
despots
?
It
is
in
vain
you
say
to
them
,
"
Dear
Madam
,
I
took
Podgers
'
specific
at
your
orders
last
year
,
and
believe
in
it
.
Why
,
why
am
I
to
recant
and
accept
the
Rodgers
'
articles
now
?
"
There
is
no
help
for
it
;
the
faithful
proselytizer
,
if
she
can
not
convince
by
argument
,
bursts
into
tears
,
and
the
refusant
finds
himself
,
at
the
end
of
the
contest
,
taking
down
the
bolus
,
and
saying
,
"
Well
,
well
,
Rodgers
'
be
it
.
"
