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Lady
O'Dowd
is
one
of
the
greatest
ladies
in
the
Presidency
of
Madras
--
her
quarrel
with
Lady
Smith
,
wife
of
Sir
Minos
Smith
the
puisne
judge
,
is
still
remembered
by
some
at
Madras
,
when
the
Colonel
's
lady
snapped
her
fingers
in
the
Judge
's
lady
's
face
and
said
SHE
'D
never
walk
behind
ever
a
beggarly
civilian
.
Even
now
,
though
it
is
five-and-twenty
years
ago
,
people
remember
Lady
O'Dowd
performing
a
jig
at
Government
House
,
where
she
danced
down
two
Aides-de-Camp
,
a
Major
of
Madras
cavalry
,
and
two
gentlemen
of
the
Civil
Service
;
and
,
persuaded
by
Major
Dobbin
,
C.B.
,
second
in
command
of
the
--
th
,
to
retire
to
the
supper-room
,
lassata
nondum
satiata
recessit
.
Peggy
O'Dowd
is
indeed
the
same
as
ever
,
kind
in
act
and
thought
;
impetuous
in
temper
;
eager
to
command
;
a
tyrant
over
her
Michael
;
a
dragon
amongst
all
the
ladies
of
the
regiment
;
a
mother
to
all
the
young
men
,
whom
she
tends
in
their
sickness
,
defends
in
all
their
scrapes
,
and
with
whom
Lady
Peggy
is
immensely
popular
.
But
the
Subalterns
'
and
Captains
'
ladies
(
the
Major
is
unmarried
)
cabal
against
her
a
good
deal
.
They
say
that
Glorvina
gives
herself
airs
and
that
Peggy
herself
is
ill
tolerably
domineering
.
She
interfered
with
a
little
congregation
which
Mrs.
Kirk
had
got
up
and
laughed
the
young
men
away
from
her
sermons
,
stating
that
a
soldier
's
wife
had
no
business
to
be
a
parson
--
that
Mrs.
Kirk
would
be
much
better
mending
her
husband
's
clothes
;
and
,
if
the
regiment
wanted
sermons
,
that
she
had
the
finest
in
the
world
,
those
of
her
uncle
,
the
Dean
.
She
abruptly
put
a
termination
to
a
flirtation
which
Lieutenant
Stubble
of
the
regiment
had
commenced
with
the
Surgeon
's
wife
,
threatening
to
come
down
upon
Stubble
for
the
money
which
he
had
borrowed
from
her
(
for
the
young
fellow
was
still
of
an
extravagant
turn
)
unless
he
broke
off
at
once
and
went
to
the
Cape
on
sick
leave
.
On
the
other
hand
,
she
housed
and
sheltered
Mrs.
Posky
,
who
fled
from
her
bungalow
one
night
,
pursued
by
her
infuriate
husband
,
wielding
his
second
brandy
bottle
,
and
actually
carried
Posky
through
the
delirium
tremens
and
broke
him
of
the
habit
of
drinking
,
which
had
grown
upon
that
officer
,
as
all
evil
habits
will
grow
upon
men
.
In
a
word
,
in
adversity
she
was
the
best
of
comforters
,
in
good
fortune
the
most
troublesome
of
friends
,
having
a
perfectly
good
opinion
of
herself
always
and
an
indomitable
resolution
to
have
her
own
way
.
Among
other
points
,
she
had
made
up
her
mind
that
Glorvina
should
marry
our
old
friend
Dobbin
.
Mrs.
O'Dowd
knew
the
Major
's
expectations
and
appreciated
his
good
qualities
and
the
high
character
which
he
enjoyed
in
his
profession
.
Glorvina
,
a
very
handsome
,
fresh-coloured
,
black-haired
,
blue-eyed
young
lady
,
who
could
ride
a
horse
,
or
play
a
sonata
with
any
girl
out
of
the
County
Cork
,
seemed
to
be
the
very
person
destined
to
insure
Dobbin
's
happiness
--
much
more
than
that
poor
good
little
weak-spur
'
ted
Amelia
,
about
whom
he
used
to
take
on
so
.
--
"
Look
at
Glorvina
enter
a
room
,
"
Mrs.
O'Dowd
would
say
,
"
and
compare
her
with
that
poor
Mrs.
Osborne
,
who
could
n't
say
boo
to
a
goose
.
She
'd
be
worthy
of
you
,
Major
--
you
're
a
quiet
man
yourself
,
and
want
some
one
to
talk
for
ye
.
And
though
she
does
not
come
of
such
good
blood
as
the
Malonys
or
Molloys
,
let
me
tell
ye
,
she
's
of
an
ancient
family
that
any
nobleman
might
be
proud
to
marry
into
.
"
But
before
she
had
come
to
such
a
resolution
and
determined
to
subjugate
Major
Dobbin
by
her
endearments
,
it
must
be
owned
that
Glorvina
had
practised
them
a
good
deal
elsewhere
.
She
had
had
a
season
in
Dublin
,
and
who
knows
how
many
in
Cork
,
Killarney
,
and
Mallow
?
She
had
flirted
with
all
the
marriageable
officers
whom
the
depots
of
her
country
afforded
,
and
all
the
bachelor
squires
who
seemed
eligible
.
She
had
been
engaged
to
be
married
a
half-score
times
in
Ireland
,
besides
the
clergyman
at
Bath
who
used
her
so
ill
.
She
had
flirted
all
the
way
to
Madras
with
the
Captain
and
chief
mate
of
the
Ramchunder
East
Indiaman
,
and
had
a
season
at
the
Presidency
with
her
brother
and
Mrs.
O'Dowd
,
who
was
staying
there
,
while
the
Major
of
the
regiment
was
in
command
at
the
station
.
Everybody
admired
her
there
;
everybody
danced
with
her
;
but
no
one
proposed
who
was
worth
the
marrying
--
one
or
two
exceedingly
young
subalterns
sighed
after
her
,
and
a
beardless
civilian
or
two
,
but
she
rejected
these
as
beneath
her
pretensions
--
and
other
and
younger
virgins
than
Glorvina
were
married
before
her
.
There
are
women
,
and
handsome
women
too
,
who
have
this
fortune
in
life
.
They
fall
in
love
with
the
utmost
generosity
;
they
ride
and
walk
with
half
the
Army-list
,
though
they
draw
near
to
forty
,
and
yet
the
Misses
O'Grady
are
the
Misses
O'Grady
still
:
Glorvina
persisted
that
but
for
Lady
O'Dowd
's
unlucky
quarrel
with
the
Judge
's
lady
,
she
would
have
made
a
good
match
at
Madras
,
where
old
Mr.
Chutney
,
who
was
at
the
head
of
the
civil
service
(
and
who
afterwards
married
Miss
Dolby
,
a
young
lady
only
thirteen
years
of
age
who
had
just
arrived
from
school
in
Europe
)
,
was
just
at
the
point
of
proposing
to
her
.
Well
,
although
Lady
O'Dowd
and
Glorvina
quarrelled
a
great
number
of
times
every
day
,
and
upon
almost
every
conceivable
subject
--
indeed
,
if
Mick
O'Dowd
had
not
possessed
the
temper
of
an
angel
two
such
women
constantly
about
his
ears
would
have
driven
him
out
of
his
senses
--
yet
they
agreed
between
themselves
on
this
point
,
that
Glorvina
should
marry
Major
Dobbin
,
and
were
determined
that
the
Major
should
have
no
rest
until
the
arrangement
was
brought
about
.
Undismayed
by
forty
or
fifty
previous
defeats
,
Glorvina
laid
siege
to
him
.
She
sang
Irish
melodies
at
him
unceasingly
.
She
asked
him
so
frequently
and
pathetically
,
Will
ye
come
to
the
bower
?
that
it
is
a
wonder
how
any
man
of
feeling
could
have
resisted
the
invitation
.
She
was
never
tired
of
inquiring
,
if
Sorrow
had
his
young
days
faded
,
and
was
ready
to
listen
and
weep
like
Desdemona
at
the
stories
of
his
dangers
and
his
campaigns
.
It
has
been
said
that
our
honest
and
dear
old
friend
used
to
perform
on
the
flute
in
private
;
Glorvina
insisted
upon
having
duets
with
him
,
and
Lady
O'Dowd
would
rise
and
artlessly
quit
the
room
when
the
young
couple
were
so
engaged
.
Glorvina
forced
the
Major
to
ride
with
her
of
mornings
.
The
whole
cantonment
saw
them
set
out
and
return
.
She
was
constantly
writing
notes
over
to
him
at
his
house
,
borrowing
his
books
,
and
scoring
with
her
great
pencil-marks
such
passages
of
sentiment
or
humour
as
awakened
her
sympathy
.
She
borrowed
his
horses
,
his
servants
,
his
spoons
,
and
palanquin
--
no
wonder
that
public
rumour
assigned
her
to
him
,
and
that
the
Major
's
sisters
in
England
should
fancy
they
were
about
to
have
a
sister-in-law
.
Dobbin
,
who
was
thus
vigorously
besieged
,
was
in
the
meanwhile
in
a
state
of
the
most
odious
tranquillity
.
He
used
to
laugh
when
the
young
fellows
of
the
regiment
joked
him
about
Glorvina
's
manifest
attentions
to
him
.
"
Bah
!
"
said
he
,
"
she
is
only
keeping
her
hand
in
--
she
practises
upon
me
as
she
does
upon
Mrs.
Tozer
's
piano
,
because
it
's
the
most
handy
instrument
in
the
station
.
I
am
much
too
battered
and
old
for
such
a
fine
young
lady
as
Glorvina
.
