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"
We
do
n't
turn
you
out
of
our
house
,
Mamma
,
"
said
the
timid
Lady
Jane
imploringly
.
"
You
invite
such
company
to
it
as
no
Christian
lady
should
meet
,
and
I
will
have
my
horses
to-morrow
morning
.
"
"
Have
the
goodness
to
write
,
Jane
,
under
my
dictation
,
"
said
Sir
Pitt
,
rising
and
throwing
himself
into
an
attitude
of
command
,
like
the
portrait
of
a
Gentleman
in
the
Exhibition
,
"
and
begin
.
'
Queen
's
Crawley
,
September
14
,
1822
.
--
My
dear
brother
--
'
"
Hearing
these
decisive
and
terrible
words
,
Lady
Macbeth
,
who
had
been
waiting
for
a
sign
of
weakness
or
vacillation
on
the
part
of
her
son-in-law
,
rose
and
,
with
a
scared
look
,
left
the
library
.
Lady
Jane
looked
up
to
her
husband
as
if
she
would
fain
follow
and
soothe
her
mamma
,
but
Pitt
forbade
his
wife
to
move
.
"
She
wo
n't
go
away
,
"
he
said
.
"
She
has
let
her
house
at
Brighton
and
has
spent
her
last
half-year
's
dividends
.
A
Countess
living
at
an
inn
is
a
ruined
woman
.
I
have
been
waiting
long
for
an
opportunity
--
to
take
this
--
this
decisive
step
,
my
love
;
for
,
as
you
must
perceive
,
it
is
impossible
that
there
should
be
two
chiefs
in
a
family
:
and
now
,
if
you
please
,
we
will
resume
the
dictation
.
'
My
dear
brother
,
the
melancholy
intelligence
which
it
is
my
duty
to
convey
to
my
family
must
have
been
long
anticipated
by
,
'
"
&
c.
In
a
word
,
Pitt
having
come
to
his
kingdom
,
and
having
by
good
luck
,
or
desert
rather
,
as
he
considered
,
assumed
almost
all
the
fortune
which
his
other
relatives
had
expected
,
was
determined
to
treat
his
family
kindly
and
respectably
and
make
a
house
of
Queen
's
Crawley
once
more
.
It
pleased
him
to
think
that
he
should
be
its
chief
.
He
proposed
to
use
the
vast
influence
that
his
commanding
talents
and
position
must
speedily
acquire
for
him
in
the
county
to
get
his
brother
placed
and
his
cousins
decently
provided
for
,
and
perhaps
had
a
little
sting
of
repentance
as
he
thought
that
he
was
the
proprietor
of
all
that
they
had
hoped
for
.
In
the
course
of
three
or
four
days
'
reign
his
bearing
was
changed
and
his
plans
quite
fixed
:
he
determined
to
rule
justly
and
honestly
,
to
depose
Lady
Southdown
,
and
to
be
on
the
friendliest
possible
terms
with
all
the
relations
of
his
blood
.
So
he
dictated
a
letter
to
his
brother
Rawdon
--
a
solemn
and
elaborate
letter
,
containing
the
profoundest
observations
,
couched
in
the
longest
words
,
and
filling
with
wonder
the
simple
little
secretary
,
who
wrote
under
her
husband
's
order
.
"
What
an
orator
this
will
be
,
"
thought
she
,
"
when
he
enters
the
House
of
Commons
"
(
on
which
point
,
and
on
the
tyranny
of
Lady
Southdown
,
Pitt
had
sometimes
dropped
hints
to
his
wife
in
bed
)
;
"
how
wise
and
good
,
and
what
a
genius
my
husband
is
!
I
fancied
him
a
little
cold
;
but
how
good
,
and
what
a
genius
!
"
The
fact
is
,
Pitt
Crawley
had
got
every
word
of
the
letter
by
heart
and
had
studied
it
,
with
diplomatic
secrecy
,
deeply
and
perfectly
,
long
before
he
thought
fit
to
communicate
it
to
his
astonished
wife
.
