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And
he
began
a
long
speech
,
explaining
how
straitened
he
himself
was
in
money
matters
;
how
the
tenants
would
not
pay
;
how
his
father
's
affairs
,
and
the
expenses
attendant
upon
the
demise
of
the
old
gentleman
,
had
involved
him
;
how
he
wanted
to
pay
off
incumbrances
;
and
how
the
bankers
and
agents
were
overdrawn
;
and
Pitt
Crawley
ended
by
making
a
compromise
with
his
sister-in-law
and
giving
her
a
very
small
sum
for
the
benefit
of
her
little
boy
.
Pitt
knew
how
poor
his
brother
and
his
brother
's
family
must
be
.
It
could
not
have
escaped
the
notice
of
such
a
cool
and
experienced
old
diplomatist
that
Rawdon
's
family
had
nothing
to
live
upon
,
and
that
houses
and
carriages
are
not
to
be
kept
for
nothing
.
He
knew
very
well
that
he
was
the
proprietor
or
appropriator
of
the
money
,
which
,
according
to
all
proper
calculation
,
ought
to
have
fallen
to
his
younger
brother
,
and
he
had
,
we
may
be
sure
,
some
secret
pangs
of
remorse
within
him
,
which
warned
him
that
he
ought
to
perform
some
act
of
justice
,
or
,
let
us
say
,
compensation
,
towards
these
disappointed
relations
.
A
just
,
decent
man
,
not
without
brains
,
who
said
his
prayers
,
and
knew
his
catechism
,
and
did
his
duty
outwardly
through
life
,
he
could
not
be
otherwise
than
aware
that
something
was
due
to
his
brother
at
his
hands
,
and
that
morally
he
was
Rawdon
's
debtor
.
But
,
as
one
reads
in
the
columns
of
the
Times
newspaper
every
now
and
then
,
queer
announcements
from
the
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer
,
acknowledging
the
receipt
of
50
pounds
from
A.
B.
,
or
10
pounds
from
W.
T.
,
as
conscience-money
,
on
account
of
taxes
due
by
the
said
A.
B.
or
W.
T.
,
which
payments
the
penitents
beg
the
Right
Honourable
gentleman
to
acknowledge
through
the
medium
of
the
public
press
--
so
is
the
Chancellor
no
doubt
,
and
the
reader
likewise
,
always
perfectly
sure
that
the
above-named
A.
B.
and
W.
T.
are
only
paying
a
very
small
instalment
of
what
they
really
owe
,
and
that
the
man
who
sends
up
a
twenty-pound
note
has
very
likely
hundreds
or
thousands
more
for
which
he
ought
to
account
.
Such
,
at
least
,
are
my
feelings
,
when
I
see
A.
B.
or
W.
T.
'
s
insufficient
acts
of
repentance
.
And
I
have
no
doubt
that
Pitt
Crawley
's
contrition
,
or
kindness
if
you
will
,
towards
his
younger
brother
,
by
whom
he
had
so
much
profited
,
was
only
a
very
small
dividend
upon
the
capital
sum
in
which
he
was
indebted
to
Rawdon
.
Not
everybody
is
willing
to
pay
even
so
much
.
To
part
with
money
is
a
sacrifice
beyond
almost
all
men
endowed
with
a
sense
of
order
.
There
is
scarcely
any
man
alive
who
does
not
think
himself
meritorious
for
giving
his
neighbour
five
pounds
.
Thriftless
gives
,
not
from
a
beneficent
pleasure
in
giving
,
but
from
a
lazy
delight
in
spending
.
He
would
not
deny
himself
one
enjoyment
;
not
his
opera-stall
,
not
his
horse
,
not
his
dinner
,
not
even
the
pleasure
of
giving
Lazarus
the
five
pounds
.
Thrifty
,
who
is
good
,
wise
,
just
,
and
owes
no
man
a
penny
,
turns
from
a
beggar
,
haggles
with
a
hackney-coachman
,
or
denies
a
poor
relation
,
and
I
doubt
which
is
the
most
selfish
of
the
two
.
Money
has
only
a
different
value
in
the
eyes
of
each
.
So
,
in
a
word
,
Pitt
Crawley
thought
he
would
do
something
for
his
brother
,
and
then
thought
that
he
would
think
about
it
some
other
time
.
And
with
regard
to
Becky
,
she
was
not
a
woman
who
expected
too
much
from
the
generosity
of
her
neighbours
,
and
so
was
quite
content
with
all
that
Pitt
Crawley
had
done
for
her
.
She
was
acknowledged
by
the
head
of
the
family
.
If
Pitt
would
not
give
her
anything
,
he
would
get
something
for
her
some
day
.
If
she
got
no
money
from
her
brother-in-law
,
she
got
what
was
as
good
as
money
--
credit
.
Raggles
was
made
rather
easy
in
his
mind
by
the
spectacle
of
the
union
between
the
brothers
,
by
a
small
payment
on
the
spot
,
and
by
the
promise
of
a
much
larger
sum
speedily
to
be
assigned
to
him
.
And
Rebecca
told
Miss
Briggs
,
whose
Christmas
dividend
upon
the
little
sum
lent
by
her
Becky
paid
with
an
air
of
candid
joy
,
and
as
if
her
exchequer
was
brimming
over
with
gold
--
Rebecca
,
we
say
,
told
Miss
Briggs
,
in
strict
confidence
that
she
had
conferred
with
Sir
Pitt
,
who
was
famous
as
a
financier
,
on
Briggs
's
special
behalf
,
as
to
the
most
profitable
investment
of
Miss
B.
'
s
remaining
capital
;
that
Sir
Pitt
,
after
much
consideration
,
had
thought
of
a
most
safe
and
advantageous
way
in
which
Briggs
could
lay
out
her
money
;
that
,
being
especially
interested
in
her
as
an
attached
friend
of
the
late
Miss
Crawley
,
and
of
the
whole
family
,
and
that
long
before
he
left
town
,
he
had
recommended
that
she
should
be
ready
with
the
money
at
a
moment
's
notice
,
so
as
to
purchase
at
the
most
favourable
opportunity
the
shares
which
Sir
Pitt
had
in
his
eye
.
Poor
Miss
Briggs
was
very
grateful
for
this
mark
of
Sir
Pitt
's
attention
--
it
came
so
unsolicited
,
she
said
,
for
she
never
should
have
thought
of
removing
the
money
from
the
funds
--
and
the
delicacy
enhanced
the
kindness
of
the
office
;
and
she
promised
to
see
her
man
of
business
immediately
and
be
ready
with
her
little
cash
at
the
proper
hour
.
And
this
worthy
woman
was
so
grateful
for
the
kindness
of
Rebecca
in
the
matter
,
and
for
that
of
her
generous
benefactor
,
the
Colonel
,
that
she
went
out
and
spent
a
great
part
of
her
half-year
's
dividend
in
the
purchase
of
a
black
velvet
coat
for
little
Rawdon
,
who
,
by
the
way
,
was
grown
almost
too
big
for
black
velvet
now
,
and
was
of
a
size
and
age
befitting
him
for
the
assumption
of
the
virile
jacket
and
pantaloons
.
He
was
a
fine
open-faced
boy
,
with
blue
eyes
and
waving
flaxen
hair
,
sturdy
in
limb
,
but
generous
and
soft
in
heart
,
fondly
attaching
himself
to
all
who
were
good
to
him
--
to
the
pony
--
to
Lord
Southdown
,
who
gave
him
the
horse
(
he
used
to
blush
and
glow
all
over
when
he
saw
that
kind
young
nobleman
)
--
to
the
groom
who
had
charge
of
the
pony
--
to
Molly
,
the
cook
,
who
crammed
him
with
ghost
stories
at
night
,
and
with
good
things
from
the
dinner
--
to
Briggs
,
whom
he
plagued
and
laughed
at
--
and
to
his
father
especially
,
whose
attachment
towards
the
lad
was
curious
too
to
witness
.
Here
,
as
he
grew
to
be
about
eight
years
old
,
his
attachments
may
be
said
to
have
ended
.
The
beautiful
mother-vision
had
faded
away
after
a
while
.
During
near
two
years
she
had
scarcely
spoken
to
the
child
.
She
disliked
him
.
He
had
the
measles
and
the
hooping-cough
.
He
bored
her
.
One
day
when
he
was
standing
at
the
landing-place
,
having
crept
down
from
the
upper
regions
,
attracted
by
the
sound
of
his
mother
's
voice
,
who
was
singing
to
Lord
Steyne
,
the
drawing
room
door
opening
suddenly
,
discovered
the
little
spy
,
who
but
a
moment
before
had
been
rapt
in
delight
,
and
listening
to
the
music
.
His
mother
came
out
and
struck
him
violently
a
couple
of
boxes
on
the
ear
.
He
heard
a
laugh
from
the
Marquis
in
the
inner
room
(
who
was
amused
by
this
free
and
artless
exhibition
of
Becky
's
temper
)
and
fled
down
below
to
his
friends
of
the
kitchen
,
bursting
in
an
agony
of
grief
.
