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All
the
party
cried
out
with
laughing
at
this
description
;
even
Briggs
and
Lady
Jane
,
who
was
sitting
mute
during
the
interview
between
Miss
Crawley
and
her
nephew
:
and
Bowls
,
without
a
word
,
quitted
the
room
.
Still
,
by
way
of
punishing
her
elder
nephew
,
Miss
Crawley
persisted
in
being
gracious
to
the
young
Oxonian
.
There
were
no
limits
to
her
kindness
or
her
compliments
when
they
once
began
.
She
told
Pitt
he
might
come
to
dinner
,
and
insisted
that
James
should
accompany
her
in
her
drive
,
and
paraded
him
solemnly
up
and
down
the
cliff
,
on
the
back
seat
of
the
barouche
.
During
all
this
excursion
,
she
condescended
to
say
civil
things
to
him
:
she
quoted
Italian
and
French
poetry
to
the
poor
bewildered
lad
,
and
persisted
that
he
was
a
fine
scholar
,
and
was
perfectly
sure
he
would
gain
a
gold
medal
,
and
be
a
Senior
Wrangler
.
"
Haw
,
haw
,
"
laughed
James
,
encouraged
by
these
compliments
;
"
Senior
Wrangler
,
indeed
;
that
's
at
the
other
shop
.
"
"
What
is
the
other
shop
,
my
dear
child
?
"
said
the
lady
.
"
Senior
Wranglers
at
Cambridge
,
not
Oxford
,
"
said
the
scholar
,
with
a
knowing
air
;
and
would
probably
have
been
more
confidential
,
but
that
suddenly
there
appeared
on
the
cliff
in
a
tax-cart
,
drawn
by
a
bang-up
pony
,
dressed
in
white
flannel
coats
,
with
mother-of-pearl
buttons
,
his
friends
the
Tutbury
Pet
and
the
Rottingdean
Fibber
,
with
three
other
gentlemen
of
their
acquaintance
,
who
all
saluted
poor
James
there
in
the
carriage
as
he
sate
.
This
incident
damped
the
ingenuous
youth
's
spirits
,
and
no
word
of
yea
or
nay
could
he
be
induced
to
utter
during
the
rest
of
the
drive
.
On
his
return
he
found
his
room
prepared
,
and
his
portmanteau
ready
,
and
might
have
remarked
that
Mr.
Bowls
's
countenance
,
when
the
latter
conducted
him
to
his
apartments
,
wore
a
look
of
gravity
,
wonder
,
and
compassion
.
But
the
thought
of
Mr.
Bowls
did
not
enter
his
head
.
He
was
deploring
the
dreadful
predicament
in
which
he
found
himself
,
in
a
house
full
of
old
women
,
jabbering
French
and
Italian
,
and
talking
poetry
to
him
.
"
Reglarly
up
a
tree
,
by
jingo
!
"
exclaimed
the
modest
boy
,
who
could
not
face
the
gentlest
of
her
sex
--
not
even
Briggs
--
when
she
began
to
talk
to
him
;
whereas
,
put
him
at
Iffley
Lock
,
and
he
could
out-slang
the
boldest
bargeman
.
At
dinner
,
James
appeared
choking
in
a
white
neckcloth
,
and
had
the
honour
of
handing
my
Lady
Jane
downstairs
,
while
Briggs
and
Mr.
Crawley
followed
afterwards
,
conducting
the
old
lady
,
with
her
apparatus
of
bundles
,
and
shawls
,
and
cushions
.
Half
of
Briggs
's
time
at
dinner
was
spent
in
superintending
the
invalid
's
comfort
,
and
in
cutting
up
chicken
for
her
fat
spaniel
.
James
did
not
talk
much
,
but
he
made
a
point
of
asking
all
the
ladies
to
drink
wine
,
and
accepted
Mr.
Crawley
's
challenge
,
and
consumed
the
greater
part
of
a
bottle
of
champagne
which
Mr.
Bowls
was
ordered
to
produce
in
his
honour
.
The
ladies
having
withdrawn
,
and
the
two
cousins
being
left
together
,
Pitt
,
the
ex-diplomatist
,
be
came
very
communicative
and
friendly
.
He
asked
after
James
's
career
at
college
--
what
his
prospects
in
life
were
--
hoped
heartily
he
would
get
on
;
and
,
in
a
word
,
was
frank
and
amiable
.
James
's
tongue
unloosed
with
the
port
,
and
he
told
his
cousin
his
life
,
his
prospects
,
his
debts
,
his
troubles
at
the
little-go
,
and
his
rows
with
the
proctors
,
filling
rapidly
from
the
bottles
before
him
,
and
flying
from
Port
to
Madeira
with
joyous
activity
.
"
The
chief
pleasure
which
my
aunt
has
,
"
said
Mr.
Crawley
,
filling
his
glass
,
"
is
that
people
should
do
as
they
like
in
her
house
.
This
is
Liberty
Hall
,
James
,
and
you
ca
n't
do
Miss
Crawley
a
greater
kindness
than
to
do
as
you
please
,
and
ask
for
what
you
will
.
I
know
you
have
all
sneered
at
me
in
the
country
for
being
a
Tory
.
Miss
Crawley
is
liberal
enough
to
suit
any
fancy
.
She
is
a
Republican
in
principle
,
and
despises
everything
like
rank
or
title
.
"
