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Besides
her
pension
of
fifty
pounds
a
year
,
there
had
been
five
hundred
pounds
,
as
her
husband
's
executor
stated
,
left
in
the
agent
's
hands
at
the
time
of
Osborne
's
demise
,
which
sum
,
as
George
's
guardian
,
Dobbin
proposed
to
put
out
at
8
per
cent
in
an
Indian
house
of
agency
.
Mr.
Sedley
,
who
thought
the
Major
had
some
roguish
intentions
of
his
own
about
the
money
,
was
strongly
against
this
plan
;
and
he
went
to
the
agents
to
protest
personally
against
the
employment
of
the
money
in
question
,
when
he
learned
,
to
his
surprise
,
that
there
had
been
no
such
sum
in
their
hands
,
that
all
the
late
Captain
's
assets
did
not
amount
to
a
hundred
pounds
,
and
that
the
five
hundred
pounds
in
question
must
be
a
separate
sum
,
of
which
Major
Dobbin
knew
the
particulars
.
More
than
ever
convinced
that
there
was
some
roguery
,
old
Sedley
pursued
the
Major
.
As
his
daughter
's
nearest
friend
,
he
demanded
with
a
high
hand
a
statement
of
the
late
Captain
's
accounts
.
Dobbin
's
stammering
,
blushing
,
and
awkwardness
added
to
the
other
's
convictions
that
he
had
a
rogue
to
deal
with
,
and
in
a
majestic
tone
he
told
that
officer
a
piece
of
his
mind
,
as
he
called
it
,
simply
stating
his
belief
that
the
Major
was
unlawfully
detaining
his
late
son-in-law
's
money
.
Dobbin
at
this
lost
all
patience
,
and
if
his
accuser
had
not
been
so
old
and
so
broken
,
a
quarrel
might
have
ensued
between
them
at
the
Slaughters
'
Coffee-house
,
in
a
box
of
which
place
of
entertainment
the
gentlemen
had
their
colloquy
.
"
Come
upstairs
,
sir
,
"
lisped
out
the
Major
.
"
I
insist
on
your
coming
up
the
stairs
,
and
I
will
show
which
is
the
injured
party
,
poor
George
or
I
"
;
and
,
dragging
the
old
gentleman
up
to
his
bedroom
,
he
produced
from
his
desk
Osborne
's
accounts
,
and
a
bundle
of
IOU
's
which
the
latter
had
given
,
who
,
to
do
him
justice
,
was
always
ready
to
give
an
IOU
.
"
He
paid
his
bills
in
England
,
"
Dobbin
added
,
"
but
he
had
not
a
hundred
pounds
in
the
world
when
he
fell
.
I
and
one
or
two
of
his
brother
officers
made
up
the
little
sum
,
which
was
all
that
we
could
spare
,
and
you
dare
tell
us
that
we
are
trying
to
cheat
the
widow
and
the
orphan
.
"
Sedley
was
very
contrite
and
humbled
,
though
the
fact
is
that
William
Dobbin
had
told
a
great
falsehood
to
the
old
gentleman
;
having
himself
given
every
shilling
of
the
money
,
having
buried
his
friend
,
and
paid
all
the
fees
and
charges
incident
upon
the
calamity
and
removal
of
poor
Amelia
.
About
these
expenses
old
Osborne
had
never
given
himself
any
trouble
to
think
,
nor
any
other
relative
of
Amelia
,
nor
Amelia
herself
,
indeed
.
She
trusted
to
Major
Dobbin
as
an
accountant
,
took
his
somewhat
confused
calculations
for
granted
,
and
never
once
suspected
how
much
she
was
in
his
debt
.
Twice
or
thrice
in
the
year
,
according
to
her
promise
,
she
wrote
him
letters
to
Madras
,
letters
all
about
little
Georgy
.
How
he
treasured
these
papers
!
Whenever
Amelia
wrote
he
answered
,
and
not
until
then
.
But
he
sent
over
endless
remembrances
of
himself
to
his
godson
and
to
her
.
He
ordered
and
sent
a
box
of
scarfs
and
a
grand
ivory
set
of
chess-men
from
China
.
The
pawns
were
little
green
and
white
men
,
with
real
swords
and
shields
;
the
knights
were
on
horseback
,
the
castles
were
on
the
backs
of
elephants
.
"
Mrs.
Mango
's
own
set
at
the
Pineries
was
not
so
fine
,
"
Mr.
Pestler
remarked
.
These
chess-men
were
the
delight
of
Georgy
's
life
,
who
printed
his
first
letter
in
acknowledgement
of
this
gift
of
his
godpapa
.
He
sent
over
preserves
and
pickles
,
which
latter
the
young
gentleman
tried
surreptitiously
in
the
sideboard
and
half-killed
himself
with
eating
.
He
thought
it
was
a
judgement
upon
him
for
stealing
,
they
were
so
hot
.
Emmy
wrote
a
comical
little
account
of
this
mishap
to
the
Major
:
it
pleased
him
to
think
that
her
spirits
were
rallying
and
that
she
could
be
merry
sometimes
now
.
He
sent
over
a
pair
of
shawls
,
a
white
one
for
her
and
a
black
one
with
palm-leaves
for
her
mother
,
and
a
pair
of
red
scarfs
,
as
winter
wrappers
,
for
old
Mr.
Sedley
and
George
.
The
shawls
were
worth
fifty
guineas
apiece
at
the
very
least
,
as
Mrs.
Sedley
knew
.
She
wore
hers
in
state
at
church
at
Brompton
,
and
was
congratulated
by
her
female
friends
upon
the
splendid
acquisition
.
Emmy
's
,
too
,
became
prettily
her
modest
black
gown
.
"
What
a
pity
it
is
she
wo
n't
think
of
him
!
"
Mrs.
Sedley
remarked
to
Mrs.
Clapp
and
to
all
her
friends
of
Brompton
.
"
Jos
never
sent
us
such
presents
,
I
am
sure
,
and
grudges
us
everything
.
It
is
evident
that
the
Major
is
over
head
and
ears
in
love
with
her
;
and
yet
,
whenever
I
so
much
as
hint
it
,
she
turns
red
and
begins
to
cry
and
goes
and
sits
upstairs
with
her
miniature
.
I
'm
sick
of
that
miniature
.
I
wish
we
had
never
seen
those
odious
purse-proud
Osbornes
.
"
Amidst
such
humble
scenes
and
associates
George
's
early
youth
was
passed
,
and
the
boy
grew
up
delicate
,
sensitive
,
imperious
,
woman-bred
--
domineering
the
gentle
mother
whom
he
loved
with
passionate
affection
.
He
ruled
all
the
rest
of
the
little
world
round
about
him
.
As
he
grew
,
the
elders
were
amazed
at
his
haughty
manner
and
his
constant
likeness
to
his
father
.
He
asked
questions
about
everything
,
as
inquiring
youth
will
do
.
The
profundity
of
his
remarks
and
interrogatories
astonished
his
old
grandfather
,
who
perfectly
bored
the
club
at
the
tavern
with
stories
about
the
little
lad
's
learning
and
genius
.
He
suffered
his
grandmother
with
a
good-humoured
indifference
.
The
small
circle
round
about
him
believed
that
the
equal
of
the
boy
did
not
exist
upon
the
earth
.
Georgy
inherited
his
father
's
pride
,
and
perhaps
thought
they
were
not
wrong
.
When
he
grew
to
be
about
six
years
old
,
Dobbin
began
to
write
to
him
very
much
.
The
Major
wanted
to
hear
that
Georgy
was
going
to
a
school
and
hoped
he
would
acquit
himself
with
credit
there
:
or
would
he
have
a
good
tutor
at
home
?
It
was
time
that
he
should
begin
to
learn
;
and
his
godfather
and
guardian
hinted
that
he
hoped
to
be
allowed
to
defray
the
charges
of
the
boy
's
education
,
which
would
fall
heavily
upon
his
mother
's
straitened
income
.
The
Major
,
in
a
word
,
was
always
thinking
about
Amelia
and
her
little
boy
,
and
by
orders
to
his
agents
kept
the
latter
provided
with
picture-books
,
paint-boxes
,
desks
,
and
all
conceivable
implements
of
amusement
and
instruction
.
Three
days
before
George
's
sixth
birthday
a
gentleman
in
a
gig
,
accompanied
by
a
servant
,
drove
up
to
Mr.
Sedley
's
house
and
asked
to
see
Master
George
Osborne
:
it
was
Mr.
Woolsey
,
military
tailor
,
of
Conduit
Street
,
who
came
at
the
Major
's
order
to
measure
the
young
gentleman
for
a
suit
of
clothes
.
He
had
had
the
honour
of
making
for
the
Captain
,
the
young
gentleman
's
father
.
Sometimes
,
too
,
and
by
the
Major
's
desire
no
doubt
,
his
sisters
,
the
Misses
Dobbin
,
would
call
in
the
family
carriage
to
take
Amelia
and
the
little
boy
to
drive
if
they
were
so
inclined
.
The
patronage
and
kindness
of
these
ladies
was
very
uncomfortable
to
Amelia
,
but
she
bore
it
meekly
enough
,
for
her
nature
was
to
yield
;
and
,
besides
,
the
carriage
and
its
splendours
gave
little
Georgy
immense
pleasure
The
ladies
begged
occasionally
that
the
child
might
pass
a
day
with
them
,
and
he
was
always
glad
to
go
to
that
fine
garden-house
at
Denmark
Hill
,
where
they
lived
,
and
where
there
were
such
fine
grapes
in
the
hot-houses
and
peaches
on
the
walls
.
