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With
regard
to
the
world
of
female
fashion
and
its
customs
,
the
present
writer
of
course
can
only
speak
at
second
hand
.
A
man
can
no
more
penetrate
or
under-stand
those
mysteries
than
he
can
know
what
the
ladies
talk
about
when
they
go
upstairs
after
dinner
.
It
is
only
by
inquiry
and
perseverance
that
one
sometimes
gets
hints
of
those
secrets
;
and
by
a
similar
diligence
every
person
who
treads
the
Pall
Mall
pavement
and
frequents
the
clubs
of
this
metropolis
knows
,
either
through
his
own
experience
or
through
some
acquaintance
with
whom
he
plays
at
billiards
or
shares
the
joint
,
something
about
the
genteel
world
of
London
,
and
how
,
as
there
are
men
(
such
as
Rawdon
Crawley
,
whose
position
we
mentioned
before
)
who
cut
a
good
figure
to
the
eyes
of
the
ignorant
world
and
to
the
apprentices
in
the
park
,
who
behold
them
consorting
with
the
most
notorious
dandies
there
,
so
there
are
ladies
,
who
may
be
called
men
's
women
,
being
welcomed
entirely
by
all
the
gentlemen
and
cut
or
slighted
by
all
their
wives
.
Mrs.
Firebrace
is
of
this
sort
;
the
lady
with
the
beautiful
fair
ringlets
whom
you
see
every
day
in
Hyde
Park
,
surrounded
by
the
greatest
and
most
famous
dandies
of
this
empire
.
Mrs.
Rockwood
is
another
,
whose
parties
are
announced
laboriously
in
the
fashionable
newspapers
and
with
whom
you
see
that
all
sorts
of
ambassadors
and
great
noblemen
dine
;
and
many
more
might
be
mentioned
had
they
to
do
with
the
history
at
present
in
hand
.
But
while
simple
folks
who
are
out
of
the
world
,
or
country
people
with
a
taste
for
the
genteel
,
behold
these
ladies
in
their
seeming
glory
in
public
places
,
or
envy
them
from
afar
off
,
persons
who
are
better
instructed
could
inform
them
that
these
envied
ladies
have
no
more
chance
of
establishing
themselves
in
"
society
,
"
than
the
benighted
squire
's
wife
in
Somersetshire
who
reads
of
their
doings
in
the
Morning
Post
.
Men
living
about
London
are
aware
of
these
awful
truths
.
You
hear
how
pitilessly
many
ladies
of
seeming
rank
and
wealth
are
excluded
from
this
"
society
.
"
The
frantic
efforts
which
they
make
to
enter
this
circle
,
the
meannesses
to
which
they
submit
,
the
insults
which
they
undergo
,
are
matters
of
wonder
to
those
who
take
human
or
womankind
for
a
study
;
and
the
pursuit
of
fashion
under
difficulties
would
be
a
fine
theme
for
any
very
great
person
who
had
the
wit
,
the
leisure
,
and
the
knowledge
of
the
English
language
necessary
for
the
compiling
of
such
a
history
.
Now
the
few
female
acquaintances
whom
Mrs.
Crawley
had
known
abroad
not
only
declined
to
visit
her
when
she
came
to
this
side
of
the
Channel
,
but
cut
her
severely
when
they
met
in
public
places
.
It
was
curious
to
see
how
the
great
ladies
forgot
her
,
and
no
doubt
not
altogether
a
pleasant
study
to
Rebecca
.
When
Lady
Bareacres
met
her
in
the
waiting-room
at
the
opera
,
she
gathered
her
daughters
about
her
as
if
they
would
be
contaminated
by
a
touch
of
Becky
,
and
retreating
a
step
or
two
,
placed
herself
in
front
of
them
,
and
stared
at
her
little
enemy
.
To
stare
Becky
out
of
countenance
required
a
severer
glance
than
even
the
frigid
old
Bareacres
could
shoot
out
of
her
dismal
eyes
.
When
Lady
de
la
Mole
,
who
had
ridden
a
score
of
times
by
Becky
's
side
at
Brussels
,
met
Mrs.
Crawley
's
open
carriage
in
Hyde
Park
,
her
Ladyship
was
quite
blind
,
and
could
not
in
the
least
recognize
her
former
friend
.
Even
Mrs.
Blenkinsop
,
the
banker
's
wife
,
cut
her
at
church
.
Becky
went
regularly
to
church
now
;
it
was
edifying
to
see
her
enter
there
with
Rawdon
by
her
side
,
carrying
a
couple
of
large
gilt
prayer-books
,
and
afterwards
going
through
the
ceremony
with
the
gravest
resignation
.
Rawdon
at
first
felt
very
acutely
the
slights
which
were
passed
upon
his
wife
,
and
was
inclined
to
be
gloomy
and
savage
.
He
talked
of
calling
out
the
husbands
or
brothers
of
every
one
of
the
insolent
women
who
did
not
pay
a
proper
respect
to
his
wife
;
and
it
was
only
by
the
strongest
commands
and
entreaties
on
her
part
that
he
was
brought
into
keeping
a
decent
behaviour
.
"
You
ca
n't
shoot
me
into
society
,
"
she
said
good-naturedly
.
"
Remember
,
my
dear
,
that
I
was
but
a
governess
,
and
you
,
you
poor
silly
old
man
,
have
the
worst
reputation
for
debt
,
and
dice
,
and
all
sorts
of
wickedness
.
We
shall
get
quite
as
many
friends
as
we
want
by
and
by
,
and
in
the
meanwhile
you
must
be
a
good
boy
and
obey
your
schoolmistress
in
everything
she
tells
you
to
do
.
When
we
heard
that
your
aunt
had
left
almost
everything
to
Pitt
and
his
wife
,
do
you
remember
what
a
rage
you
were
in
?
You
would
have
told
all
Paris
,
if
I
had
not
made
you
keep
your
temper
,
and
where
would
you
have
been
now
?
--
in
prison
at
Ste.
Pelagie
for
debt
,
and
not
established
in
London
in
a
handsome
house
,
with
every
comfort
about
you
--
you
were
in
such
a
fury
you
were
ready
to
murder
your
brother
,
you
wicked
Cain
you
,
and
what
good
would
have
come
of
remaining
angry
?
All
the
rage
in
the
world
wo
n't
get
us
your
aunt
's
money
;
and
it
is
much
better
that
we
should
be
friends
with
your
brother
's
family
than
enemies
,
as
those
foolish
Butes
are
.
When
your
father
dies
,
Queen
's
Crawley
will
be
a
pleasant
house
for
you
and
me
to
pass
the
winter
in
.
If
we
are
ruined
,
you
can
carve
and
take
charge
of
the
stable
,
and
I
can
be
a
governess
to
Lady
Jane
's
children
.
Ruined
!
fiddlede-dee
!
I
will
get
you
a
good
place
before
that
;
or
Pitt
and
his
little
boy
will
die
,
and
we
will
be
Sir
Rawdon
and
my
lady
.
While
there
is
life
,
there
is
hope
,
my
dear
,
and
I
intend
to
make
a
man
of
you
yet
.
Who
sold
your
horses
for
you
?
Who
paid
your
debts
for
you
?
"
Rawdon
was
obliged
to
confess
that
he
owed
all
these
benefits
to
his
wife
,
and
to
trust
himself
to
her
guidance
for
the
future
.
Indeed
,
when
Miss
Crawley
quitted
the
world
,
and
that
money
for
which
all
her
relatives
had
been
fighting
so
eagerly
was
finally
left
to
Pitt
,
Bute
Crawley
,
who
found
that
only
five
thousand
pounds
had
been
left
to
him
instead
of
the
twenty
upon
which
he
calculated
,
was
in
such
a
fury
at
his
disappointment
that
he
vented
it
in
savage
abuse
upon
his
nephew
;
and
the
quarrel
always
rankling
between
them
ended
in
an
utter
breach
of
intercourse
.
Rawdon
Crawley
's
conduct
,
on
the
other
hand
,
who
got
but
a
hundred
pounds
,
was
such
as
to
astonish
his
brother
and
delight
his
sister-in-law
,
who
was
disposed
to
look
kindly
upon
all
the
members
of
her
husband
's
family
.
He
wrote
to
his
brother
a
very
frank
,
manly
,
good-humoured
letter
from
Paris
.
He
was
aware
,
he
said
,
that
by
his
own
marriage
he
had
forfeited
his
aunt
's
favour
;
and
though
he
did
not
disguise
his
disappointment
that
she
should
have
been
so
entirely
relentless
towards
him
,
he
was
glad
that
the
money
was
still
kept
in
their
branch
of
the
family
,
and
heartily
congratulated
his
brother
on
his
good
fortune
.
He
sent
his
affectionate
remembrances
to
his
sister
,
and
hoped
to
have
her
good-will
for
Mrs.
Rawdon
;
and
the
letter
concluded
with
a
postscript
to
Pitt
in
the
latter
lady
's
own
handwriting
.
She
,
too
,
begged
to
join
in
her
husband
's
congratulations
.
She
should
ever
remember
Mr.
Crawley
's
kindness
to
her
in
early
days
when
she
was
a
friendless
orphan
,
the
instructress
of
his
little
sisters
,
in
whose
welfare
she
still
took
the
tenderest
interest
.
She
wished
him
every
happiness
in
his
married
life
,
and
,
asking
his
permission
to
offer
her
remembrances
to
Lady
Jane
(
of
whose
goodness
all
the
world
informed
her
)
,
she
hoped
that
one
day
she
might
be
allowed
to
present
her
little
boy
to
his
uncle
and
aunt
,
and
begged
to
bespeak
for
him
their
good-will
and
protection
.
Pitt
Crawley
received
this
communication
very
graciously
--
more
graciously
than
Miss
Crawley
had
received
some
of
Rebecca
's
previous
compositions
in
Rawdon
's
handwriting
;
and
as
for
Lady
Jane
,
she
was
so
charmed
with
the
letter
that
she
expected
her
husband
would
instantly
divide
his
aunt
's
legacy
into
two
equal
portions
and
send
off
one-half
to
his
brother
at
Paris
.
