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So
there
was
splendour
and
wealth
,
but
no
great
happiness
perchance
,
behind
the
tall
caned
portals
of
Gaunt
House
with
its
smoky
coronets
and
ciphers
.
The
feasts
there
were
of
the
grandest
in
London
,
but
there
was
not
overmuch
content
therewith
,
except
among
the
guests
who
sat
at
my
lord
's
table
.
Had
he
not
been
so
great
a
Prince
very
few
possibly
would
have
visited
him
;
but
in
Vanity
Fair
the
sins
of
very
great
personages
are
looked
at
indulgently
.
"
Nous
regardons
a
deux
fois
"
(
as
the
French
lady
said
)
before
we
condemn
a
person
of
my
lord
's
undoubted
quality
.
Some
notorious
carpers
and
squeamish
moralists
might
be
sulky
with
Lord
Steyne
,
but
they
were
glad
enough
to
come
when
he
asked
them
.
"
Lord
Steyne
is
really
too
bad
,
"
Lady
Slingstone
said
,
"
but
everybody
goes
,
and
of
course
I
shall
see
that
my
girls
come
to
no
harm
.
"
"
His
lordship
is
a
man
to
whom
I
owe
much
,
everything
in
life
,
"
said
the
Right
Reverend
Doctor
Trail
,
thinking
that
the
Archbishop
was
rather
shaky
,
and
Mrs.
Trail
and
the
young
ladies
would
as
soon
have
missed
going
to
church
as
to
one
of
his
lordship
's
parties
.
"
His
morals
are
bad
,
"
said
little
Lord
Southdown
to
his
sister
,
who
meekly
expostulated
,
having
heard
terrific
legends
from
her
mamma
with
respect
to
the
doings
at
Gaunt
House
;
"
but
hang
it
,
he
's
got
the
best
dry
Sillery
in
Europe
!
"
And
as
for
Sir
Pitt
Crawley
,
Bart
.
--
Sir
Pitt
that
pattern
of
decorum
,
Sir
Pitt
who
had
led
off
at
missionary
meetings
--
he
never
for
one
moment
thought
of
not
going
too
.
"
Where
you
see
such
persons
as
the
Bishop
of
Ealing
and
the
Countess
of
Slingstone
,
you
may
be
pretty
sure
,
Jane
,
"
the
Baronet
would
say
,
"
that
we
can
not
be
wrong
.
The
great
rank
and
station
of
Lord
Steyne
put
him
in
a
position
to
command
people
in
our
station
in
life
.
The
Lord
Lieutenant
of
a
County
,
my
dear
,
is
a
respectable
man
.
Besides
,
George
Gaunt
and
I
were
intimate
in
early
life
;
he
was
my
junior
when
we
were
attaches
at
Pumpernickel
together
"
In
a
word
everybody
went
to
wait
upon
this
great
man
--
everybody
who
was
asked
,
as
you
the
reader
(
do
not
say
nay
)
or
I
the
writer
hereof
would
go
if
we
had
an
invitation
.
At
last
Becky
's
kindness
and
attention
to
the
chief
of
her
husband
's
family
were
destined
to
meet
with
an
exceeding
great
reward
,
a
reward
which
,
though
certainly
somewhat
unsubstantial
,
the
little
woman
coveted
with
greater
eagerness
than
more
positive
benefits
.
If
she
did
not
wish
to
lead
a
virtuous
life
,
at
least
she
desired
to
enjoy
a
character
for
virtue
,
and
we
know
that
no
lady
in
the
genteel
world
can
possess
this
desideratum
,
until
she
has
put
on
a
train
and
feathers
and
has
been
presented
to
her
Sovereign
at
Court
.
From
that
august
interview
they
come
out
stamped
as
honest
women
.
The
Lord
Chamberlain
gives
them
a
certificate
of
virtue
.
And
as
dubious
goods
or
letters
are
passed
through
an
oven
at
quarantine
,
sprinkled
with
aromatic
vinegar
,
and
then
pronounced
clean
,
many
a
lady
,
whose
reputation
would
be
doubtful
otherwise
and
liable
to
give
infection
,
passes
through
the
wholesome
ordeal
of
the
Royal
presence
and
issues
from
it
free
from
all
taint
.
It
might
be
very
well
for
my
Lady
Bareacres
,
my
Lady
Tufto
,
Mrs.
Bute
Crawley
in
the
country
,
and
other
ladies
who
had
come
into
contact
with
Mrs.
Rawdon
Crawley
to
cry
fie
at
the
idea
of
the
odious
little
adventuress
making
her
curtsey
before
the
Sovereign
,
and
to
declare
that
,
if
dear
good
Queen
Charlotte
had
been
alive
,
she
never
would
have
admitted
such
an
extremely
ill-regulated
personage
into
her
chaste
drawing-room
.
But
when
we
consider
that
it
was
the
First
Gentleman
in
Europe
in
whose
high
presence
Mrs.
Rawdon
passed
her
examination
,
and
as
it
were
,
took
her
degree
in
reputation
,
it
surely
must
be
flat
disloyalty
to
doubt
any
more
about
her
virtue
.
I
,
for
my
part
,
look
back
with
love
and
awe
to
that
Great
Character
in
history
.
Ah
,
what
a
high
and
noble
appreciation
of
Gentlewomanhood
there
must
have
been
in
Vanity
Fair
,
when
that
revered
and
august
being
was
invested
,
by
the
universal
acclaim
of
the
refined
and
educated
portion
of
this
empire
,
with
the
title
of
Premier
Gentilhomme
of
his
Kingdom
.
Do
you
remember
,
dear
M
--
oh
friend
of
my
youth
,
how
one
blissful
night
five-and-twenty
years
since
,
the
"
Hypocrite
"
being
acted
,
Elliston
being
manager
,
Dowton
and
Liston
performers
,
two
boys
had
leave
from
their
loyal
masters
to
go
out
from
Slaughter-House
School
where
they
were
educated
and
to
appear
on
Drury
Lane
stage
,
amongst
a
crowd
which
assembled
there
to
greet
the
king
.
THE
KING
?
There
he
was
.
Beefeaters
were
before
the
august
box
;
the
Marquis
of
Steyne
(
Lord
of
the
Powder
Closet
)
and
other
great
officers
of
state
were
behind
the
chair
on
which
he
sat
,
HE
sat
--
florid
of
face
,
portly
of
person
,
covered
with
orders
,
and
in
a
rich
curling
head
of
hair
--
how
we
sang
God
save
him
!
How
the
house
rocked
and
shouted
with
that
magnificent
music
.
How
they
cheered
,
and
cried
,
and
waved
handkerchiefs
.
Ladies
wept
;
mothers
clasped
their
children
;
some
fainted
with
emotion
.
People
were
suffocated
in
the
pit
,
shrieks
and
groans
rising
up
amidst
the
writhing
and
shouting
mass
there
of
his
people
who
were
,
and
indeed
showed
themselves
almost
to
be
,
ready
to
die
for
him
.
Yes
,
we
saw
him
.
Fate
can
not
deprive
us
of
THAT
.
Others
have
seen
Napoleon
.
Some
few
still
exist
who
have
beheld
Frederick
the
Great
,
Doctor
Johnson
,
Marie
Antoinette
,
&
c.
--
be
it
our
reasonable
boast
to
our
children
,
that
we
saw
George
the
Good
,
the
Magnificent
,
the
Great
.
Well
,
there
came
a
happy
day
in
Mrs.
Rawdon
Crawley
's
existence
when
this
angel
was
admitted
into
the
paradise
of
a
Court
which
she
coveted
,
her
sister-in-law
acting
as
her
godmother
.
On
the
appointed
day
,
Sir
Pitt
and
his
lady
,
in
their
great
family
carriage
(
just
newly
built
,
and
ready
for
the
Baronet
's
assumption
of
the
office
of
High
Sheriff
of
his
county
)
,
drove
up
to
the
little
house
in
Curzon
Street
,
to
the
edification
of
Raggles
,
who
was
watching
from
his
greengrocer
's
shop
,
and
saw
fine
plumes
within
,
and
enormous
bunches
of
flowers
in
the
breasts
of
the
new
livery-coats
of
the
footmen
.
