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As
a
guest
,
and
it
being
the
first
night
of
his
arrival
,
Rawdon
the
Second
was
allowed
to
sit
up
until
the
hour
when
tea
being
over
,
and
a
great
gilt
book
being
laid
on
the
table
before
Sir
Pitt
,
all
the
domestics
of
the
family
streamed
in
,
and
Sir
Pitt
read
prayers
.
It
was
the
first
time
the
poor
little
boy
had
ever
witnessed
or
heard
of
such
a
ceremonial
.
The
house
had
been
much
improved
even
since
the
Baronet
's
brief
reign
,
and
was
pronounced
by
Becky
to
be
perfect
,
charming
,
delightful
,
when
she
surveyed
it
in
his
company
.
As
for
little
Rawdon
,
who
examined
it
with
the
children
for
his
guides
,
it
seemed
to
him
a
perfect
palace
of
enchantment
and
wonder
.
There
were
long
galleries
,
and
ancient
state
bedrooms
,
there
were
pictures
and
old
China
,
and
armour
.
There
were
the
rooms
in
which
Grandpapa
died
,
and
by
which
the
children
walked
with
terrified
looks
.
"
Who
was
Grandpapa
?
"
he
asked
;
and
they
told
him
how
he
used
to
be
very
old
,
and
used
to
be
wheeled
about
in
a
garden-chair
,
and
they
showed
him
the
garden-chair
one
day
rotting
in
the
out-house
in
which
it
had
lain
since
the
old
gentleman
had
been
wheeled
away
yonder
to
the
church
,
of
which
the
spire
was
glittering
over
the
park
elms
.
The
brothers
had
good
occupation
for
several
mornings
in
examining
the
improvements
which
had
been
effected
by
Sir
Pitt
's
genius
and
economy
.
And
as
they
walked
or
rode
,
and
looked
at
them
,
they
could
talk
without
too
much
boring
each
other
.
And
Pitt
took
care
to
tell
Rawdon
what
a
heavy
outlay
of
money
these
improvements
had
occasioned
,
and
that
a
man
of
landed
and
funded
property
was
often
very
hard
pressed
for
twenty
pounds
.
"
There
is
that
new
lodge-gate
,
"
said
Pitt
,
pointing
to
it
humbly
with
the
bamboo
cane
,
"
I
can
no
more
pay
for
it
before
the
dividends
in
January
than
I
can
fly
"
"
I
can
lend
you
,
Pitt
,
till
then
,
"
Rawdon
answered
rather
ruefully
;
and
they
went
in
and
looked
at
the
restored
lodge
,
where
the
family
arms
were
just
new
scraped
in
stone
,
and
where
old
Mrs.
Lock
,
for
the
first
time
these
many
long
years
,
had
tight
doors
,
sound
roofs
,
and
whole
windows
.
Sir
Pitt
Crawley
had
done
more
than
repair
fences
and
restore
dilapidated
lodges
on
the
Queen
's
Crawley
estate
.
Like
a
wise
man
he
had
set
to
work
to
rebuild
the
injured
popularity
of
his
house
and
stop
up
the
gaps
and
ruins
in
which
his
name
had
been
left
by
his
disreputable
and
thriftless
old
predecessor
.
He
was
elected
for
the
borough
speedily
after
his
father
's
demise
;
a
magistrate
,
a
member
of
parliament
,
a
county
magnate
and
representative
of
an
ancient
family
,
he
made
it
his
duty
to
show
himself
before
the
Hampshire
public
,
subscribed
handsomely
to
the
county
charities
,
called
assiduously
upon
all
the
county
folk
,
and
laid
himself
out
in
a
word
to
take
that
position
in
Hampshire
,
and
in
the
Empire
afterwards
,
to
which
he
thought
his
prodigious
talents
justly
entitled
him
.
Lady
Jane
was
instructed
to
be
friendly
with
the
Fuddlestones
,
and
the
Wapshots
,
and
the
other
famous
baronets
,
their
neighbours
.
Their
carriages
might
frequently
be
seen
in
the
Queen
's
Crawley
avenue
now
;
they
dined
pretty
frequently
at
the
Hall
(
where
the
cookery
was
so
good
that
it
was
clear
Lady
Jane
very
seldom
had
a
hand
in
it
)
,
and
in
return
Pitt
and
his
wife
most
energetically
dined
out
in
all
sorts
of
weather
and
at
all
sorts
of
distances
.
For
though
Pitt
did
not
care
for
joviality
,
being
a
frigid
man
of
poor
hearth
and
appetite
,
yet
he
considered
that
to
be
hospitable
and
condescending
was
quite
incumbent
on-his
station
,
and
every
time
that
he
got
a
headache
from
too
long
an
after-dinner
sitting
,
he
felt
that
he
was
a
martyr
to
duty
.
He
talked
about
crops
,
corn-laws
,
politics
,
with
the
best
country
gentlemen
.
He
(
who
had
been
formerly
inclined
to
be
a
sad
free-thinker
on
these
points
)
entered
into
poaching
and
game
preserving
with
ardour
.
He
did
n't
hunt
;
he
was
n't
a
hunting
man
;
he
was
a
man
of
books
and
peaceful
habits
;
but
he
thought
that
the
breed
of
horses
must
be
kept
up
in
the
country
,
and
that
the
breed
of
foxes
must
therefore
be
looked
to
,
and
for
his
part
,
if
his
friend
,
Sir
Huddlestone
Fuddlestone
,
liked
to
draw
his
country
and
meet
as
of
old
the
F.
hounds
used
to
do
at
Queen
's
Crawley
,
he
should
be
happy
to
see
him
there
,
and
the
gentlemen
of
the
Fuddlestone
hunt
.
And
to
Lady
Southdown
's
dismay
too
he
became
more
orthodox
in
his
tendencies
every
day
;
gave
up
preaching
in
public
and
attending
meeting-houses
;
went
stoutly
to
church
;
called
on
the
Bishop
and
all
the
Clergy
at
Winchester
;
and
made
no
objection
when
the
Venerable
Archdeacon
Trumper
asked
for
a
game
of
whist
.
What
pangs
must
have
been
those
of
Lady
Southdown
,
and
what
an
utter
castaway
she
must
have
thought
her
son-in-law
for
permitting
such
a
godless
diversion
!
And
when
,
on
the
return
of
the
family
from
an
oratorio
at
Winchester
,
the
Baronet
announced
to
the
young
ladies
that
he
should
next
year
very
probably
take
them
to
the
"
county
balls
,
"
they
worshipped
him
for
his
kindness
.
Lady
Jane
was
only
too
obedient
,
and
perhaps
glad
herself
to
go
.
The
Dowager
wrote
off
the
direst
descriptions
of
her
daughter
's
worldly
behaviour
to
the
authoress
of
the
Washerwoman
of
Finchley
Common
at
the
Cape
;
and
her
house
in
Brighton
being
about
this
time
unoccupied
,
returned
to
that
watering-place
,
her
absence
being
not
very
much
deplored
by
her
children
.
We
may
suppose
,
too
,
that
Rebecca
,
on
paying
a
second
visit
to
Queen
's
Crawley
,
did
not
feel
particularly
grieved
at
the
absence
of
the
lady
of
the
medicine
chest
;
though
she
wrote
a
Christmas
letter
to
her
Ladyship
,
in
which
she
respectfully
recalled
herself
to
Lady
Southdown
's
recollection
,
spoke
with
gratitude
of
the
delight
which
her
Ladyship
's
conversation
had
given
her
on
the
former
visit
,
dilated
on
the
kindness
with
which
her
Ladyship
had
treated
her
in
sickness
,
and
declared
that
everything
at
Queen
's
Crawley
reminded
her
of
her
absent
friend
.
A
great
part
of
the
altered
demeanour
and
popularity
of
Sir
Pitt
Crawley
might
have
been
traced
to
the
counsels
of
that
astute
little
lady
of
Curzon
Street
.
"
You
remain
a
Baronet
--
you
consent
to
be
a
mere
country
gentleman
,
"
she
said
to
him
,
while
he
had
been
her
guest
in
London
.
"
No
,
Sir
Pitt
Crawley
,
I
know
you
better
.
I
know
your
talents
and
your
ambition
.
You
fancy
you
hide
them
both
,
but
you
can
conceal
neither
from
me
.
I
showed
Lord
Steyne
your
pamphlet
on
malt
.
He
was
familiar
with
it
,
and
said
it
was
in
the
opinion
of
the
whole
Cabinet
the
most
masterly
thing
that
had
appeared
on
the
subject
.
The
Ministry
has
its
eye
upon
you
,
and
I
know
what
you
want
.
