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Severe
,
spotless
,
and
beautiful
,
Lady
Gaunt
held
the
very
highest
rank
in
Vanity
Fair
.
The
distinguished
courtesy
with
which
Lord
Steyne
treated
her
charmed
everybody
who
witnessed
his
behaviour
,
caused
the
severest
critics
to
admit
how
perfect
a
gentleman
he
was
,
and
to
own
that
his
Lordship
's
heart
at
least
was
in
the
right
place
.
The
ladies
of
Gaunt
House
called
Lady
Bareacres
in
to
their
aid
,
in
order
to
repulse
the
common
enemy
.
One
of
Lady
Gaunt
's
carriages
went
to
Hill
Street
for
her
Ladyship
's
mother
,
all
whose
equipages
were
in
the
hands
of
the
bailiffs
,
whose
very
jewels
and
wardrobe
,
it
was
said
,
had
been
seized
by
those
inexorable
Israelites
.
Bareacres
Castle
was
theirs
,
too
,
with
all
its
costly
pictures
,
furniture
,
and
articles
of
vertu
--
the
magnificent
Vandykes
;
the
noble
Reynolds
pictures
;
the
Lawrence
portraits
,
tawdry
and
beautiful
,
and
,
thirty
years
ago
,
deemed
as
precious
as
works
of
real
genius
;
the
matchless
Dancing
Nymph
of
Canova
,
for
which
Lady
Bareacres
had
sat
in
her
youth
--
Lady
Bareacres
splendid
then
,
and
radiant
in
wealth
,
rank
,
and
beauty
--
a
toothless
,
bald
,
old
woman
now
--
a
mere
rag
of
a
former
robe
of
state
.
Her
lord
,
painted
at
the
same
time
by
Lawrence
,
as
waving
his
sabre
in
front
of
Bareacres
Castle
,
and
clothed
in
his
uniform
as
Colonel
of
the
Thistlewood
Yeomanry
,
was
a
withered
,
old
,
lean
man
in
a
greatcoat
and
a
Brutus
wig
,
slinking
about
Gray
's
Inn
of
mornings
chiefly
and
dining
alone
at
clubs
.
He
did
not
like
to
dine
with
Steyne
now
.
They
had
run
races
of
pleasure
together
in
youth
when
Bareacres
was
the
winner
.
But
Steyne
had
more
bottom
than
he
and
had
lasted
him
out
.
The
Marquis
was
ten
times
a
greater
man
now
than
the
young
Lord
Gaunt
of
'
85
,
and
Bareacres
nowhere
in
the
race
--
old
,
beaten
,
bankrupt
,
and
broken
down
.
He
had
borrowed
too
much
money
of
Steyne
to
find
it
pleasant
to
meet
his
old
comrade
often
.
The
latter
,
whenever
he
wished
to
be
merry
,
used
jeeringly
to
ask
Lady
Gaunt
why
her
father
had
not
come
to
see
her
.
"
He
has
not
been
here
for
four
months
,
"
Lord
Steyne
would
say
.
"
I
can
always
tell
by
my
cheque-book
afterwards
,
when
I
get
a
visit
from
Bareacres
.
What
a
comfort
it
is
,
my
ladies
,
I
bank
with
one
of
my
sons
'
fathers-in-law
,
and
the
other
banks
with
me
!
"
Of
the
other
illustrious
persons
whom
Becky
had
the
honour
to
encounter
on
this
her
first
presentation
to
the
grand
world
,
it
does
not
become
the
present
historian
to
say
much
.
There
was
his
Excellency
the
Prince
of
Peterwaradin
,
with
his
Princess
--
a
nobleman
tightly
girthed
,
with
a
large
military
chest
,
on
which
the
plaque
of
his
order
shone
magnificently
,
and
wearing
the
red
collar
of
the
Golden
Fleece
round
his
neck
.
He
was
the
owner
of
countless
flocks
.
"
Look
at
his
face
.
I
think
he
must
be
descended
from
a
sheep
,
"
Becky
whispered
to
Lord
Steyne
.
Indeed
,
his
Excellency
's
countenance
,
long
,
solemn
,
and
white
,
with
the
ornament
round
his
neck
,
bore
some
resemblance
to
that
of
a
venerable
bell-wether
.
There
was
Mr.
John
Paul
Jefferson
Jones
,
titularly
attached
to
the
American
Embassy
and
correspondent
of
the
New
York
Demagogue
,
who
,
by
way
of
making
himself
agreeable
to
the
company
,
asked
Lady
Steyne
,
during
a
pause
in
the
conversation
at
dinner
,
how
his
dear
friend
,
George
Gaunt
,
liked
the
Brazils
?
He
and
George
had
been
most
intimate
at
Naples
and
had
gone
up
Vesuvius
together
.
Mr.
Jones
wrote
a
full
and
particular
account
of
the
dinner
,
which
appeared
duly
in
the
Demagogue
.
He
mentioned
the
names
and
titles
of
all
the
guests
,
giving
biographical
sketches
of
the
principal
people
.
He
described
the
persons
of
the
ladies
with
great
eloquence
;
the
service
of
the
table
;
the
size
and
costume
of
the
servants
;
enumerated
the
dishes
and
wines
served
;
the
ornaments
of
the
sideboard
;
and
the
probable
value
of
the
plate
.
Such
a
dinner
he
calculated
could
not
be
dished
up
under
fifteen
or
eighteen
dollars
per
head
.
And
he
was
in
the
habit
,
until
very
lately
,
of
sending
over
proteges
,
with
letters
of
recommendation
to
the
present
Marquis
of
Steyne
,
encouraged
to
do
so
by
the
intimate
terms
on
which
he
had
lived
with
his
dear
friend
,
the
late
lord
.
He
was
most
indignant
that
a
young
and
insignificant
aristocrat
,
the
Earl
of
Southdown
,
should
have
taken
the
pas
of
him
in
their
procession
to
the
dining-room
.
"
Just
as
I
was
stepping
up
to
offer
my
hand
to
a
very
pleasing
and
witty
fashionable
,
the
brilliant
and
exclusive
Mrs.
Rawdon
Crawley
,
"
--
he
wrote
--
"
the
young
patrician
interposed
between
me
and
the
lady
and
whisked
my
Helen
off
without
a
word
of
apology
.
I
was
fain
to
bring
up
the
rear
with
the
Colonel
,
the
lady
's
husband
,
a
stout
red-faced
warrior
who
distinguished
himself
at
Waterloo
,
where
he
had
better
luck
than
befell
some
of
his
brother
redcoats
at
New
Orleans
.
"
The
Colonel
's
countenance
on
coming
into
this
polite
society
wore
as
many
blushes
as
the
face
of
a
boy
of
sixteen
assumes
when
he
is
confronted
with
his
sister
's
schoolfellows
.
It
has
been
told
before
that
honest
Rawdon
had
not
been
much
used
at
any
period
of
his
life
to
ladies
'
company
.
With
the
men
at
the
Club
or
the
mess
room
,
he
was
well
enough
;
and
could
ride
,
bet
,
smoke
,
or
play
at
billiards
with
the
boldest
of
them
.
He
had
had
his
time
for
female
friendships
too
,
but
that
was
twenty
years
ago
,
and
the
ladies
were
of
the
rank
of
those
with
whom
Young
Marlow
in
the
comedy
is
represented
as
having
been
familiar
before
he
became
abashed
in
the
presence
of
Miss
Hardcastle
.
The
times
are
such
that
one
scarcely
dares
to
allude
to
that
kind
of
company
which
thousands
of
our
young
men
in
Vanity
Fair
are
frequenting
every
day
,
which
nightly
fills
casinos
and
dancing-rooms
,
which
is
known
to
exist
as
well
as
the
Ring
in
Hyde
Park
or
the
Congregation
at
St.
James
's
--
but
which
the
most
squeamish
if
not
the
most
moral
of
societies
is
determined
to
ignore
.
In
a
word
,
although
Colonel
Crawley
was
now
five-and-forty
years
of
age
,
it
had
not
been
his
lot
in
life
to
meet
with
a
half
dozen
good
women
,
besides
his
paragon
of
a
wife
.
All
except
her
and
his
kind
sister
Lady
Jane
,
whose
gentle
nature
had
tamed
and
won
him
,
scared
the
worthy
Colonel
,
and
on
occasion
of
his
first
dinner
at
Gaunt
House
he
was
not
heard
to
make
a
single
remark
except
to
state
that
the
weather
was
very
hot
.
Indeed
Becky
would
have
left
him
at
home
,
but
that
virtue
ordained
that
her
husband
should
be
by
her
side
to
protect
the
timid
and
fluttering
little
creature
on
her
first
appearance
in
polite
society
.
On
her
first
appearance
Lord
Steyne
stepped
forward
,
taking
her
hand
,
and
greeting
her
with
great
courtesy
,
and
presenting
her
to
Lady
Steyne
,
and
their
ladyships
,
her
daughters
.
Their
ladyships
made
three
stately
curtsies
,
and
the
elder
lady
to
be
sure
gave
her
hand
to
the
newcomer
,
but
it
was
as
cold
and
lifeless
as
marble
.
