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Whenever
this
powdered
and
courteous
old
man
,
who
never
missed
a
Sunday
at
the
convent
chapel
at
Hammersmith
,
and
who
was
in
all
respects
,
thoughts
,
conduct
,
and
bearing
utterly
unlike
the
bearded
savages
of
his
nation
,
who
curse
perfidious
Albion
,
and
scowl
at
you
from
over
their
cigars
,
in
the
Quadrant
arcades
at
the
present
day
--
whenever
the
old
Chevalier
de
Talonrouge
spoke
of
Mistress
Osborne
,
he
would
first
finish
his
pinch
of
snuff
,
flick
away
the
remaining
particles
of
dust
with
a
graceful
wave
of
his
hand
,
gather
up
his
fingers
again
into
a
bunch
,
and
,
bringing
them
up
to
his
mouth
,
blow
them
open
with
a
kiss
,
exclaiming
,
Ah
!
la
divine
creature
!
He
vowed
and
protested
that
when
Amelia
walked
in
the
Brompton
Lanes
flowers
grew
in
profusion
under
her
feet
.
He
called
little
Georgy
Cupid
,
and
asked
him
news
of
Venus
,
his
mamma
;
and
told
the
astonished
Betty
Flanagan
that
she
was
one
of
the
Graces
,
and
the
favourite
attendant
of
the
Reine
des
Amours
.
Instances
might
be
multiplied
of
this
easily
gained
and
unconscious
popularity
.
Did
not
Mr.
Binny
,
the
mild
and
genteel
curate
of
the
district
chapel
,
which
the
family
attended
,
call
assiduously
upon
the
widow
,
dandle
the
little
boy
on
his
knee
,
and
offer
to
teach
him
Latin
,
to
the
anger
of
the
elderly
virgin
,
his
sister
,
who
kept
house
for
him
?
"
There
is
nothing
in
her
,
Beilby
,
"
the
latter
lady
would
say
.
"
When
she
comes
to
tea
here
she
does
not
speak
a
word
during
the
whole
evening
.
She
is
but
a
poor
lackadaisical
creature
,
and
it
is
my
belief
has
no
heart
at
all
.
It
is
only
her
pretty
face
which
all
you
gentlemen
admire
so
.
Miss
Grits
,
who
has
five
thousand
pounds
,
and
expectations
besides
,
has
twice
as
much
character
,
and
is
a
thousand
times
more
agreeable
to
my
taste
;
and
if
she
were
good-looking
I
know
that
you
would
think
her
perfection
.
"
Very
likely
Miss
Binny
was
right
to
a
great
extent
.
It
IS
the
pretty
face
which
creates
sympathy
in
the
hearts
of
men
,
those
wicked
rogues
.
A
woman
may
possess
the
wisdom
and
chastity
of
Minerva
,
and
we
give
no
heed
to
her
,
if
she
has
a
plain
face
.
What
folly
will
not
a
pair
of
bright
eyes
make
pardonable
?
What
dulness
may
not
red
lips
and
sweet
accents
render
pleasant
?
And
so
,
with
their
usual
sense
of
justice
,
ladies
argue
that
because
a
woman
is
handsome
,
therefore
she
is
a
fool
.
O
ladies
,
ladies
!
there
are
some
of
you
who
are
neither
handsome
nor
wise
.
These
are
but
trivial
incidents
to
recount
in
the
life
of
our
heroine
.
Her
tale
does
not
deal
in
wonders
,
as
the
gentle
reader
has
already
no
doubt
perceived
;
and
if
a
journal
had
been
kept
of
her
proceedings
during
the
seven
years
after
the
birth
of
her
son
,
there
would
be
found
few
incidents
more
remarkable
in
it
than
that
of
the
measles
,
recorded
in
the
foregoing
page
.
Yes
,
one
day
,
and
greatly
to
her
wonder
,
the
Reverend
Mr.
Binny
,
just
mentioned
,
asked
her
to
change
her
name
of
Osborne
for
his
own
;
when
,
with
deep
blushes
and
tears
in
her
eyes
and
voice
,
she
thanked
him
for
his
regard
for
her
,
expressed
gratitude
for
his
attentions
to
her
and
to
her
poor
little
boy
,
but
said
that
she
never
,
never
could
think
of
any
but
--
but
the
husband
whom
she
had
lost
.
On
the
twenty-fifth
of
April
,
and
the
eighteenth
of
June
,
the
days
of
marriage
and
widowhood
,
she
kept
her
room
entirely
,
consecrating
them
(
and
we
do
not
know
how
many
hours
of
solitary
night-thought
,
her
little
boy
sleeping
in
his
crib
by
her
bedside
)
to
the
memory
of
that
departed
friend
.
During
the
day
she
was
more
active
.
She
had
to
teach
George
to
read
and
to
write
and
a
little
to
draw
.
She
read
books
,
in
order
that
she
might
tell
him
stories
from
them
.
As
his
eyes
opened
and
his
mind
expanded
under
the
influence
of
the
outward
nature
round
about
him
,
she
taught
the
child
,
to
the
best
of
her
humble
power
,
to
acknowledge
the
Maker
of
all
,
and
every
night
and
every
morning
he
and
she
--
(
in
that
awful
and
touching
communion
which
I
think
must
bring
a
thrill
to
the
heart
of
every
man
who
witnesses
or
who
remembers
it
)
--
the
mother
and
the
little
boy
--
prayed
to
Our
Father
together
,
the
mother
pleading
with
all
her
gentle
heart
,
the
child
lisping
after
her
as
she
spoke
.
And
each
time
they
prayed
to
God
to
bless
dear
Papa
,
as
if
he
were
alive
and
in
the
room
with
them
.
To
wash
and
dress
this
young
gentleman
--
to
take
him
for
a
run
of
the
mornings
,
before
breakfast
,
and
the
retreat
of
grandpapa
for
"
business
"
--
to
make
for
him
the
most
wonderful
and
ingenious
dresses
,
for
which
end
the
thrifty
widow
cut
up
and
altered
every
available
little
bit
of
finery
which
she
possessed
out
of
her
wardrobe
during
her
marriage
--
for
Mrs.
Osborne
herself
(
greatly
to
her
mother
's
vexation
,
who
preferred
fine
clothes
,
especially
since
her
misfortunes
)
always
wore
a
black
gown
and
a
straw
bonnet
with
a
black
ribbon
--
occupied
her
many
hours
of
the
day
.
Others
she
had
to
spare
,
at
the
service
of
her
mother
and
her
old
father
.
She
had
taken
the
pains
to
learn
,
and
used
to
play
cribbage
with
this
gentleman
on
the
nights
when
he
did
not
go
to
his
club
.
She
sang
for
him
when
he
was
so
minded
,
and
it
was
a
good
sign
,
for
he
invariably
fell
into
a
comfortable
sleep
during
the
music
.
She
wrote
out
his
numerous
memorials
,
letters
,
prospectuses
,
and
projects
.
It
was
in
her
handwriting
that
most
of
the
old
gentleman
's
former
acquaintances
were
informed
that
he
had
become
an
agent
for
the
Black
Diamond
and
Anti-Cinder
Coal
Company
and
could
supply
his
friends
and
the
public
with
the
best
coals
at
--
s.
per
chaldron
.
All
he
did
was
to
sign
the
circulars
with
his
flourish
and
signature
,
and
direct
them
in
a
shaky
,
clerklike
hand
.
One
of
these
papers
was
sent
to
Major
Dobbin
--
Regt.
,
care
of
Messrs.
Cox
and
Greenwood
;
but
the
Major
being
in
Madras
at
the
time
,
had
no
particular
call
for
coals
.
He
knew
,
though
,
the
hand
which
had
written
the
prospectus
.
Good
God
!
what
would
he
not
have
given
to
hold
it
in
his
own
!
A
second
prospectus
came
out
,
informing
the
Major
that
J.
Sedley
and
Company
,
having
established
agencies
at
Oporto
,
Bordeaux
,
and
St.
Mary
's
,
were
enabled
to
offer
to
their
friends
and
the
public
generally
the
finest
and
most
celebrated
growths
of
ports
,
sherries
,
and
claret
wines
at
reasonable
prices
and
under
extraordinary
advantages
.
Acting
upon
this
hint
,
Dobbin
furiously
canvassed
the
governor
,
the
commander-in-chief
,
the
judges
,
the
regiments
,
and
everybody
whom
he
knew
in
the
Presidency
,
and
sent
home
to
Sedley
and
Co.
orders
for
wine
which
perfectly
astonished
Mr.
Sedley
and
Mr.
Clapp
,
who
was
the
Co.
in
the
business
.
But
no
more
orders
came
after
that
first
burst
of
good
fortune
,
on
which
poor
old
Sedley
was
about
to
build
a
house
in
the
City
,
a
regiment
of
clerks
,
a
dock
to
himself
,
and
correspondents
all
over
the
world
.
The
old
gentleman
's
former
taste
in
wine
had
gone
:
the
curses
of
the
mess-room
assailed
Major
Dobbin
for
the
vile
drinks
he
had
been
the
means
of
introducing
there
;
and
he
bought
back
a
great
quantity
of
the
wine
and
sold
it
at
public
outcry
,
at
an
enormous
loss
to
himself
.
As
for
Jos
,
who
was
by
this
time
promoted
to
a
seat
at
the
Revenue
Board
at
Calcutta
,
he
was
wild
with
rage
when
the
post
brought
him
out
a
bundle
of
these
Bacchanalian
prospectuses
,
with
a
private
note
from
his
father
,
telling
Jos
that
his
senior
counted
upon
him
in
this
enterprise
,
and
had
consigned
a
quantity
of
select
wines
to
him
,
as
per
invoice
,
drawing
bills
upon
him
for
the
amount
of
the
same
.
Jos
,
who
would
no
more
have
it
supposed
that
his
father
,
Jos
Sedley
's
father
,
of
the
Board
of
Revenue
,
was
a
wine
merchant
asking
for
orders
,
than
that
he
was
Jack
Ketch
,
refused
the
bills
with
scorn
,
wrote
back
contumeliously
to
the
old
gentleman
,
bidding
him
to
mind
his
own
affairs
;
and
the
protested
paper
coming
back
,
Sedley
and
Co.
had
to
take
it
up
,
with
the
profits
which
they
had
made
out
of
the
Madras
venture
,
and
with
a
little
portion
of
Emmy
's
savings
.
