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Her
success
in
Paris
was
remarkable
.
All
the
French
ladies
voted
her
charming
.
She
spoke
their
language
admirably
.
She
adopted
at
once
their
grace
,
their
liveliness
,
their
manner
.
Her
husband
was
stupid
certainly
--
all
English
are
stupid
--
and
,
besides
,
a
dull
husband
at
Paris
is
always
a
point
in
a
lady
's
favour
.
He
was
the
heir
of
the
rich
and
spirituelle
Miss
Crawley
,
whose
house
had
been
open
to
so
many
of
the
French
noblesse
during
the
emigration
.
They
received
the
colonel
's
wife
in
their
own
hotels
--
"
Why
,
"
wrote
a
great
lady
to
Miss
Crawley
,
who
had
bought
her
lace
and
trinkets
at
the
Duchess
's
own
price
,
and
given
her
many
a
dinner
during
the
pinching
times
after
the
Revolution
--
"
Why
does
not
our
dear
Miss
come
to
her
nephew
and
niece
,
and
her
attached
friends
in
Paris
?
All
the
world
raffoles
of
the
charming
Mistress
and
her
espiegle
beauty
.
Yes
,
we
see
in
her
the
grace
,
the
charm
,
the
wit
of
our
dear
friend
Miss
Crawley
!
The
King
took
notice
of
her
yesterday
at
the
Tuileries
,
and
we
are
all
jealous
of
the
attention
which
Monsieur
pays
her
.
If
you
could
have
seen
the
spite
of
a
certain
stupid
Miladi
Bareacres
(
whose
eagle-beak
and
toque
and
feathers
may
be
seen
peering
over
the
heads
of
all
assemblies
)
when
Madame
,
the
Duchess
of
Angouleme
,
the
august
daughter
and
companion
of
kings
,
desired
especially
to
be
presented
to
Mrs.
Crawley
,
as
your
dear
daughter
and
protegee
,
and
thanked
her
in
the
name
of
France
,
for
all
your
benevolence
towards
our
unfortunates
during
their
exile
!
She
is
of
all
the
societies
,
of
all
the
balls
--
of
the
balls
--
yes
--
of
the
dances
,
no
;
and
yet
how
interesting
and
pretty
this
fair
creature
looks
surrounded
by
the
homage
of
the
men
,
and
so
soon
to
be
a
mother
!
To
hear
her
speak
of
you
,
her
protectress
,
her
mother
,
would
bring
tears
to
the
eyes
of
ogres
.
How
she
loves
you
!
how
we
all
love
our
admirable
,
our
respectable
Miss
Crawley
!
"
It
is
to
be
feared
that
this
letter
of
the
Parisian
great
lady
did
not
by
any
means
advance
Mrs.
Becky
's
interest
with
her
admirable
,
her
respectable
,
relative
.
On
the
contrary
,
the
fury
of
the
old
spinster
was
beyond
bounds
,
when
she
found
what
was
Rebecca
's
situation
,
and
how
audaciously
she
had
made
use
of
Miss
Crawley
's
name
,
to
get
an
entree
into
Parisian
society
.
Too
much
shaken
in
mind
and
body
to
compose
a
letter
in
the
French
language
in
reply
to
that
of
her
correspondent
,
she
dictated
to
Briggs
a
furious
answer
in
her
own
native
tongue
,
repudiating
Mrs.
Rawdon
Crawley
altogether
,
and
warning
the
public
to
beware
of
her
as
a
most
artful
and
dangerous
person
.
But
as
Madame
the
Duchess
of
X
--
had
only
been
twenty
years
in
England
,
she
did
not
understand
a
single
word
of
the
language
,
and
contented
herself
by
informing
Mrs.
Rawdon
Crawley
at
their
next
meeting
,
that
she
had
received
a
charming
letter
from
that
chere
Mees
,
and
that
it
was
full
of
benevolent
things
for
Mrs.
Crawley
,
who
began
seriously
to
have
hopes
that
the
spinster
would
relent
.
Meanwhile
,
she
was
the
gayest
and
most
admired
of
Englishwomen
:
and
had
a
little
European
congress
on
her
reception-night
.
Prussians
and
Cossacks
,
Spanish
and
English
--
all
the
world
was
at
Paris
during
this
famous
winter
:
to
have
seen
the
stars
and
cordons
in
Rebecca
's
humble
saloon
would
have
made
all
Baker
Street
pale
with
envy
.
Famous
warriors
rode
by
her
carriage
in
the
Bois
,
or
crowded
her
modest
little
box
at
the
Opera
.
Rawdon
was
in
the
highest
spirits
.
There
were
no
duns
in
Paris
as
yet
:
there
were
parties
every
day
at
Very
's
or
Beauvilliers
'
;
play
was
plentiful
and
his
luck
good
.
Tufto
perhaps
was
sulky
.
Mrs.
Tufto
had
come
over
to
Paris
at
her
own
invitation
,
and
besides
this
contretemps
,
there
were
a
score
of
generals
now
round
Becky
's
chair
,
and
she
might
take
her
choice
of
a
dozen
bouquets
when
she
went
to
the
play
.
Lady
Bareacres
and
the
chiefs
of
the
English
society
,
stupid
and
irreproachable
females
,
writhed
with
anguish
at
the
success
of
the
little
upstart
Becky
,
whose
poisoned
jokes
quivered
and
rankled
in
their
chaste
breasts
.
But
she
had
all
the
men
on
her
side
.
She
fought
the
women
with
indomitable
courage
,
and
they
could
not
talk
scandal
in
any
tongue
but
their
own
.
So
in
fetes
,
pleasures
,
and
prosperity
,
the
winter
of
1815-16
passed
away
with
Mrs.
Rawdon
Crawley
,
who
accommodated
herself
to
polite
life
as
if
her
ancestors
had
been
people
of
fashion
for
centuries
past
--
and
who
from
her
wit
,
talent
,
and
energy
,
indeed
merited
a
place
of
honour
in
Vanity
Fair
.
In
the
early
spring
of
1816
,
Galignani
's
Journal
contained
the
following
announcement
in
an
interesting
corner
of
the
paper
:
"
On
the
26th
of
March
--
the
Lady
of
Lieutenant-Colonel
Crawley
,
of
the
Life
Guards
Green
--
of
a
son
and
heir
.
"
This
event
was
copied
into
the
London
papers
,
out
of
which
Miss
Briggs
read
the
statement
to
Miss
Crawley
,
at
breakfast
,
at
Brighton
.
The
intelligence
,
expected
as
it
might
have
been
,
caused
a
crisis
in
the
affairs
of
the
Crawley
family
.
The
spinster
's
rage
rose
to
its
height
,
and
sending
instantly
for
Pitt
,
her
nephew
,
and
for
the
Lady
Southdown
,
from
Brunswick
Square
,
she
requested
an
immediate
celebration
of
the
marriage
which
had
been
so
long
pending
between
the
two
families
.
And
she
announced
that
it
was
her
intention
to
allow
the
young
couple
a
thousand
a
year
during
her
lifetime
,
at
the
expiration
of
which
the
bulk
of
her
property
would
be
settled
upon
her
nephew
and
her
dear
niece
,
Lady
Jane
Crawley
.
Waxy
came
down
to
ratify
the
deeds
--
Lord
Southdown
gave
away
his
sister
--
she
was
married
by
a
Bishop
,
and
not
by
the
Rev.
Bartholomew
Irons
--
to
the
disappointment
of
the
irregular
prelate
.
When
they
were
married
,
Pitt
would
have
liked
to
take
a
hymeneal
tour
with
his
bride
,
as
became
people
of
their
condition
.
But
the
affection
of
the
old
lady
towards
Lady
Jane
had
grown
so
strong
,
that
she
fairly
owned
she
could
not
part
with
her
favourite
.
Pitt
and
his
wife
came
therefore
and
lived
with
Miss
Crawley
:
and
(
greatly
to
the
annoyance
of
poor
Pitt
,
who
conceived
himself
a
most
injured
character
--
being
subject
to
the
humours
of
his
aunt
on
one
side
,
and
of
his
mother-in-law
on
the
other
)
Lady
Southdown
,
from
her
neighbouring
house
,
reigned
over
the
whole
family
--
Pitt
,
Lady
Jane
,
Miss
Crawley
,
Briggs
,
Bowls
,
Firkin
,
and
all
.
She
pitilessly
dosed
them
with
her
tracts
and
her
medicine
,
she
dismissed
Creamer
,
she
installed
Rodgers
,
and
soon
stripped
Miss
Crawley
of
even
the
semblance
of
authority
