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Mrs.
Crawley
employed
no
lawyer
in
the
transaction
.
The
matter
was
so
simple
,
to
have
or
to
leave
,
as
she
justly
observed
,
that
she
made
the
lawyers
of
the
creditors
themselves
do
the
business
.
And
Mr.
Lewis
representing
Mr.
Davids
,
of
Red
Lion
Square
,
and
Mr.
Moss
acting
for
Mr.
Manasseh
of
Cursitor
Street
(
chief
creditors
of
the
Colonel
's
)
,
complimented
his
lady
upon
the
brilliant
way
in
which
she
did
business
,
and
declared
that
there
was
no
professional
man
who
could
beat
her
Rebecca
received
their
congratulations
with
perfect
modesty
;
ordered
a
bottle
of
sherry
and
a
bread
cake
to
the
little
dingy
lodgings
where
she
dwelt
,
while
conducting
the
business
,
to
treat
the
enemy
's
lawyers
:
shook
hands
with
them
at
parting
,
in
excellent
good
humour
,
and
returned
straightway
to
the
Continent
,
to
rejoin
her
husband
and
son
and
acquaint
the
former
with
the
glad
news
of
his
entire
liberation
.
As
for
the
latter
,
he
had
been
considerably
neglected
during
his
mother
's
absence
by
Mademoiselle
Genevieve
,
her
French
maid
;
for
that
young
woman
,
contracting
an
attachment
for
a
soldier
in
the
garrison
of
Calais
,
forgot
her
charge
in
the
society
of
this
militaire
,
and
little
Rawdon
very
narrowly
escaped
drowning
on
Calais
sands
at
this
period
,
where
the
absent
Genevieve
had
left
and
lost
him
.
And
so
,
Colonel
and
Mrs.
Crawley
came
to
London
:
and
it
is
at
their
house
in
Curzon
Street
,
May
Fair
,
that
they
really
showed
the
skill
which
must
be
possessed
by
those
who
would
live
on
the
resources
above
named
.
In
the
first
place
,
and
as
a
matter
of
the
greatest
necessity
,
we
are
bound
to
describe
how
a
house
may
be
got
for
nothing
a
year
.
These
mansions
are
to
be
had
either
unfurnished
,
where
,
if
you
have
credit
with
Messrs.
Gillows
or
Bantings
,
you
can
get
them
splendidly
montees
and
decorated
entirely
according
to
your
own
fancy
;
or
they
are
to
be
let
furnished
,
a
less
troublesome
and
complicated
arrangement
to
most
parties
.
It
was
so
that
Crawley
and
his
wife
preferred
to
hire
their
house
.
Before
Mr.
Bowls
came
to
preside
over
Miss
Crawley
's
house
and
cellar
in
Park
Lane
,
that
lady
had
had
for
a
butler
a
Mr.
Raggles
,
who
was
born
on
the
family
estate
of
Queen
's
Crawley
,
and
indeed
was
a
younger
son
of
a
gardener
there
.
By
good
conduct
,
a
handsome
person
and
calves
,
and
a
grave
demeanour
,
Raggles
rose
from
the
knife-board
to
the
footboard
of
the
carriage
;
from
the
footboard
to
the
butler
's
pantry
.
When
he
had
been
a
certain
number
of
years
at
the
head
of
Miss
Crawley
's
establishment
,
where
he
had
had
good
wages
,
fat
perquisites
,
and
plenty
of
opportunities
of
saving
,
he
announced
that
he
was
about
to
contract
a
matrimonial
alliance
with
a
late
cook
of
Miss
Crawley
's
,
who
had
subsisted
in
an
honourable
manner
by
the
exercise
of
a
mangle
,
and
the
keeping
of
a
small
greengrocer
's
shop
in
the
neighbourhood
.
The
truth
is
,
that
the
ceremony
had
been
clandestinely
performed
some
years
back
;
although
the
news
of
Mr.
Raggles
'
marriage
was
first
brought
to
Miss
Crawley
by
a
little
boy
and
girl
of
seven
and
eight
years
of
age
,
whose
continual
presence
in
the
kitchen
had
attracted
the
attention
of
Miss
Briggs
.
Mr.
Raggles
then
retired
and
personally
undertook
the
superintendence
of
the
small
shop
and
the
greens
.
He
added
milk
and
cream
,
eggs
and
country-fed
pork
to
his
stores
,
contenting
himself
whilst
other
retired
butlers
were
vending
spirits
in
public
houses
,
by
dealing
in
the
simplest
country
produce
.
And
having
a
good
connection
amongst
the
butlers
in
the
neighbourhood
,
and
a
snug
back
parlour
where
he
and
Mrs.
Raggles
received
them
,
his
milk
,
cream
,
and
eggs
got
to
be
adopted
by
many
of
the
fraternity
,
and
his
profits
increased
every
year
.
Year
after
year
he
quietly
and
modestly
amassed
money
,
and
when
at
length
that
snug
and
complete
bachelor
's
residence
at
No.
201
,
Curzon
Street
,
May
Fair
,
lately
the
residence
of
the
Honourable
Frederick
Deuceace
,
gone
abroad
,
with
its
rich
and
appropriate
furniture
by
the
first
makers
,
was
brought
to
the
hammer
,
who
should
go
in
and
purchase
the
lease
and
furniture
of
the
house
but
Charles
Raggles
?
A
part
of
the
money
he
borrowed
,
it
is
true
,
and
at
rather
a
high
interest
,
from
a
brother
butler
,
but
the
chief
part
he
paid
down
,
and
it
was
with
no
small
pride
that
Mrs.
Raggles
found
herself
sleeping
in
a
bed
of
carved
mahogany
,
with
silk
curtains
,
with
a
prodigious
cheval
glass
opposite
to
her
,
and
a
wardrobe
which
would
contain
her
,
and
Raggles
,
and
all
the
family
.
Of
course
,
they
did
not
intend
to
occupy
permanently
an
apartment
so
splendid
.
It
was
in
order
to
let
the
house
again
that
Raggles
purchased
it
.
As
soon
as
a
tenant
was
found
,
he
subsided
into
the
greengrocer
's
shop
once
more
;
but
a
happy
thing
it
was
for
him
to
walk
out
of
that
tenement
and
into
Curzon
Street
,
and
there
survey
his
house
--
his
own
house
--
with
geraniums
in
the
window
and
a
carved
bronze
knocker
.
The
footman
occasionally
lounging
at
the
area
railing
,
treated
him
with
respect
;
the
cook
took
her
green
stuff
at
his
house
and
called
him
Mr.
Landlord
,
and
there
was
not
one
thing
the
tenants
did
,
or
one
dish
which
they
had
for
dinner
,
that
Raggles
might
not
know
of
,
if
he
liked
.
He
was
a
good
man
;
good
and
happy
.
The
house
brought
him
in
so
handsome
a
yearly
income
that
he
was
determined
to
send
his
children
to
good
schools
,
and
accordingly
,
regardless
of
expense
,
Charles
was
sent
to
boarding
at
Dr.
Swishtail
's
,
Sugar-cane
Lodge
,
and
little
Matilda
to
Miss
Peckover
's
,
Laurentinum
House
,
Clapham
.
Raggles
loved
and
adored
the
Crawley
family
as
the
author
of
all
his
prosperity
in
life
.
