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This
day
too
the
unlucky
boy
's
modesty
had
likewise
forsaken
him
.
He
was
lively
and
facetious
at
dinner
.
During
the
repast
he
levelled
one
or
two
jokes
against
Pitt
Crawley
:
he
drank
as
much
wine
as
upon
the
previous
day
;
and
going
quite
unsuspiciously
to
the
drawing-room
,
began
to
entertain
the
ladies
there
with
some
choice
Oxford
stories
.
He
described
the
different
pugilistic
qualities
of
Molyneux
and
Dutch
Sam
,
offered
playfully
to
give
Lady
Jane
the
odds
upon
the
Tutbury
Pet
against
the
Rottingdean
man
,
or
take
them
,
as
her
Ladyship
chose
:
and
crowned
the
pleasantry
by
proposing
to
back
himself
against
his
cousin
Pitt
Crawley
,
either
with
or
without
the
gloves
.
"
And
that
's
a
fair
offer
,
my
buck
,
"
he
said
,
with
a
loud
laugh
,
slapping
Pitt
on
the
shoulder
,
"
and
my
father
told
me
to
make
it
too
,
and
he
'll
go
halves
in
the
bet
,
ha
,
ha
!
"
So
saying
,
the
engaging
youth
nodded
knowingly
at
poor
Miss
Briggs
,
and
pointed
his
thumb
over
his
shoulder
at
Pitt
Crawley
in
a
jocular
and
exulting
manner
.
Pitt
was
not
pleased
altogether
perhaps
,
but
still
not
unhappy
in
the
main
.
Poor
Jim
had
his
laugh
out
:
and
staggered
across
the
room
with
his
aunt
's
candle
,
when
the
old
lady
moved
to
retire
,
and
offered
to
salute
her
with
the
blandest
tipsy
smile
:
and
he
took
his
own
leave
and
went
upstairs
to
his
bedroom
perfectly
satisfied
with
himself
,
and
with
a
pleased
notion
that
his
aunt
's
money
would
be
left
to
him
in
preference
to
his
father
and
all
the
rest
of
the
family
.
Once
up
in
the
bedroom
,
one
would
have
thought
he
could
not
make
matters
worse
;
and
yet
this
unlucky
boy
did
.
The
moon
was
shining
very
pleasantly
out
on
the
sea
,
and
Jim
,
attracted
to
the
window
by
the
romantic
appearance
of
the
ocean
and
the
heavens
,
thought
he
would
further
enjoy
them
while
smoking
.
Nobody
would
smell
the
tobacco
,
he
thought
,
if
he
cunningly
opened
the
window
and
kept
his
head
and
pipe
in
the
fresh
air
.
This
he
did
:
but
being
in
an
excited
state
,
poor
Jim
had
forgotten
that
his
door
was
open
all
this
time
,
so
that
the
breeze
blowing
inwards
and
a
fine
thorough
draught
being
established
,
the
clouds
of
tobacco
were
carried
downstairs
,
and
arrived
with
quite
undiminished
fragrance
to
Miss
Crawley
and
Miss
Briggs
.
The
pipe
of
tobacco
finished
the
business
:
and
the
Bute-Crawleys
never
knew
how
many
thousand
pounds
it
cost
them
.
Firkin
rushed
downstairs
to
Bowls
who
was
reading
out
the
"
Fire
and
the
Frying
Pan
"
to
his
aide-de-camp
in
a
loud
and
ghostly
voice
.
The
dreadful
secret
was
told
to
him
by
Firkin
with
so
frightened
a
look
,
that
for
the
first
moment
Mr.
Bowls
and
his
young
man
thought
that
robbers
were
in
the
house
,
the
legs
of
whom
had
probably
been
discovered
by
the
woman
under
Miss
Crawley
's
bed
.
When
made
aware
of
the
fact
,
however
--
to
rush
upstairs
at
three
steps
at
a
time
to
enter
the
unconscious
James
's
apartment
,
calling
out
,
"
Mr.
James
,
"
in
a
voice
stifled
with
alarm
,
and
to
cry
,
"
For
Gawd
's
sake
,
sir
,
stop
that
'
ere
pipe
,
"
was
the
work
of
a
minute
with
Mr.
Bowls
.
"
O
,
Mr.
James
,
what
'
AVE
you
done
!
"
he
said
in
a
voice
of
the
deepest
pathos
,
as
he
threw
the
implement
out
of
the
window
.
"
What
'
ave
you
done
,
sir
!
Missis
ca
n't
abide
'em
.
"
"
Missis
need
n't
smoke
,
"
said
James
with
a
frantic
misplaced
laugh
,
and
thought
the
whole
matter
an
excellent
joke
.
But
his
feelings
were
very
different
in
the
morning
,
when
Mr.
Bowls
's
young
man
,
who
operated
upon
Mr.
James
's
boots
,
and
brought
him
his
hot
water
to
shave
that
beard
which
he
was
so
anxiously
expecting
,
handed
a
note
in
to
Mr.
James
in
bed
,
in
the
handwriting
of
Miss
Briggs
.
"
Dear
sir
,
"
it
said
,
"
Miss
Crawley
has
passed
an
exceedingly
disturbed
night
,
owing
to
the
shocking
manner
in
which
the
house
has
been
polluted
by
tobacco
;
Miss
Crawley
bids
me
say
she
regrets
that
she
is
too
unwell
to
see
you
before
you
go
--
and
above
all
that
she
ever
induced
you
to
remove
from
the
ale-house
,
where
she
is
sure
you
will
be
much
more
comfortable
during
the
rest
of
your
stay
at
Brighton
.
"
And
herewith
honest
James
's
career
as
a
candidate
for
his
aunt
's
favour
ended
.
He
had
in
fact
,
and
without
knowing
it
,
done
what
he
menaced
to
do
.
He
had
fought
his
cousin
Pitt
with
the
gloves
.
Where
meanwhile
was
he
who
had
been
once
first
favourite
for
this
race
for
money
?
Becky
and
Rawdon
,
as
we
have
seen
,
were
come
together
after
Waterloo
,
and
were
passing
the
winter
of
1815
at
Paris
in
great
splendour
and
gaiety
.
Rebecca
was
a
good
economist
,
and
the
price
poor
Jos
Sedley
had
paid
for
her
two
horses
was
in
itself
sufficient
to
keep
their
little
establishment
afloat
for
a
year
,
at
the
least
;
there
was
no
occasion
to
turn
into
money
"
my
pistols
,
the
same
which
I
shot
Captain
Marker
,
"
or
the
gold
dressing-case
,
or
the
cloak
lined
with
sable
.
Becky
had
it
made
into
a
pelisse
for
herself
,
in
which
she
rode
in
the
Bois
de
Boulogne
to
the
admiration
of
all
:
and
you
should
have
seen
the
scene
between
her
and
her
delighted
husband
,
whom
she
rejoined
after
the
army
had
entered
Cambray
,
and
when
she
unsewed
herself
,
and
let
out
of
her
dress
all
those
watches
,
knick-knacks
,
bank-notes
,
cheques
,
and
valuables
,
which
she
had
secreted
in
the
wadding
,
previous
to
her
meditated
flight
from
Brussels
!
Tufto
was
charmed
,
and
Rawdon
roared
with
delighted
laughter
,
and
swore
that
she
was
better
than
any
play
he
ever
saw
,
by
Jove
.
And
the
way
in
which
she
jockeyed
Jos
,
and
which
she
described
with
infinite
fun
,
carried
up
his
delight
to
a
pitch
of
quite
insane
enthusiasm
.
He
believed
in
his
wife
as
much
as
the
French
soldiers
in
Napoleon
.
