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Georgy
never
tired
of
his
praises
of
the
Major
to
his
mother
.
"
I
like
him
,
Mamma
,
because
he
knows
such
lots
of
things
;
and
he
ai
n't
like
old
Veal
,
who
is
always
bragging
and
using
such
long
words
,
do
n't
you
know
?
The
chaps
call
him
'
Longtail
'
at
school
.
I
gave
him
the
name
;
ai
n't
it
capital
?
But
Dob
reads
Latin
like
English
,
and
French
and
that
;
and
when
we
go
out
together
he
tells
me
stories
about
my
Papa
,
and
never
about
himself
;
though
I
heard
Colonel
Buckler
,
at
Grandpapa
's
,
say
that
he
was
one
of
the
bravest
officers
in
the
army
,
and
had
distinguished
himself
ever
so
much
.
Grandpapa
was
quite
surprised
,
and
said
,
'
THAT
feller
!
Why
,
I
did
n't
think
he
could
say
Bo
to
a
goose
'
--
but
I
know
he
could
,
could
n't
he
,
Mamma
?
"
Emmy
laughed
:
she
thought
it
was
very
likely
the
Major
could
do
thus
much
.
If
there
was
a
sincere
liking
between
George
and
the
Major
,
it
must
be
confessed
that
between
the
boy
and
his
uncle
no
great
love
existed
.
George
had
got
a
way
of
blowing
out
his
cheeks
,
and
putting
his
hands
in
his
waistcoat
pockets
,
and
saying
,
"
God
bless
my
soul
,
you
do
n't
say
so
,
"
so
exactly
after
the
fashion
of
old
Jos
that
it
was
impossible
to
refrain
from
laughter
.
The
servants
would
explode
at
dinner
if
the
lad
,
asking
for
something
which
was
n't
at
table
,
put
on
that
countenance
and
used
that
favourite
phrase
.
Even
Dobbin
would
shoot
out
a
sudden
peal
at
the
boy
's
mimicry
.
If
George
did
not
mimic
his
uncle
to
his
face
,
it
was
only
by
Dobbin
's
rebukes
and
Amelia
's
terrified
entreaties
that
the
little
scapegrace
was
induced
to
desist
.
And
the
worthy
civilian
being
haunted
by
a
dim
consciousness
that
the
lad
thought
him
an
ass
,
and
was
inclined
to
turn
him
into
ridicule
,
used
to
be
extremely
timorous
and
,
of
course
,
doubly
pompous
and
dignified
in
the
presence
of
Master
Georgy
.
When
it
was
announced
that
the
young
gentleman
was
expected
in
Gillespie
Street
to
dine
with
his
mother
,
Mr.
Jos
commonly
found
that
he
had
an
engagement
at
the
Club
.
Perhaps
nobody
was
much
grieved
at
his
absence
.
On
those
days
Mr.
Sedley
would
commonly
be
induced
to
come
out
from
his
place
of
refuge
in
the
upper
stories
,
and
there
would
be
a
small
family
party
,
whereof
Major
Dobbin
pretty
generally
formed
one
.
He
was
the
ami
de
la
maison
--
old
Sedley
's
friend
,
Emmy
's
friend
,
Georgy
's
friend
,
Jos
's
counsel
and
adviser
.
"
He
might
almost
as
well
be
at
Madras
for
anything
WE
see
of
him
,
"
Miss
Ann
Dobbin
remarked
at
Camberwell
.
Ah
!
Miss
Ann
,
did
it
not
strike
you
that
it
was
not
YOU
whom
the
Major
wanted
to
marry
?
Joseph
Sedley
then
led
a
life
of
dignified
otiosity
such
as
became
a
person
of
his
eminence
.
His
very
first
point
,
of
course
,
was
to
become
a
member
of
the
Oriental
Club
,
where
he
spent
his
mornings
in
the
company
of
his
brother
Indians
,
where
he
dined
,
or
whence
he
brought
home
men
to
dine
.
Amelia
had
to
receive
and
entertain
these
gentlemen
and
their
ladies
.
From
these
she
heard
how
soon
Smith
would
be
in
Council
;
how
many
lacs
Jones
had
brought
home
with
him
,
how
Thomson
's
House
in
London
had
refused
the
bills
drawn
by
Thomson
,
Kibobjee
,
and
Co.
,
the
Bombay
House
,
and
how
it
was
thought
the
Calcutta
House
must
go
too
;
how
very
imprudent
,
to
say
the
least
of
it
,
Mrs.
Brown
's
conduct
(
wife
of
Brown
of
the
Ahmednuggur
Irregulars
)
had
been
with
young
Swankey
of
the
Body
Guard
,
sitting
up
with
him
on
deck
until
all
hours
,
and
losing
themselves
as
they
were
riding
out
at
the
Cape
;
how
Mrs.
Hardyman
had
had
out
her
thirteen
sisters
,
daughters
of
a
country
curate
,
the
Rev
:
Felix
Rabbits
,
and
married
eleven
of
them
,
seven
high
up
in
the
service
;
how
Hornby
was
wild
because
his
wife
would
stay
in
Europe
,
and
Trotter
was
appointed
Collector
at
Ummerapoora
.
This
and
similar
talk
took
place
at
the
grand
dinners
all
round
.
They
had
the
same
conversation
;
the
same
silver
dishes
;
the
same
saddles
of
mutton
,
boiled
turkeys
,
and
entrees
.
Politics
set
in
a
short
time
after
dessert
,
when
the
ladies
retired
upstairs
and
talked
about
their
complaints
and
their
children
.
Mutato
nomine
,
it
is
all
the
same
.
Do
n't
the
barristers
'
wives
talk
about
Circuit
?
Do
n't
the
soldiers
'
ladies
gossip
about
the
Regiment
?
Do
n't
the
clergymen
's
ladies
discourse
about
Sunday-schools
and
who
takes
whose
duty
?
Do
n't
the
very
greatest
ladies
of
all
talk
about
that
small
clique
of
persons
to
whom
they
belong
?
And
why
should
our
Indian
friends
not
have
their
own
conversation
?
--
only
I
admit
it
is
slow
for
the
laymen
whose
fate
it
sometimes
is
to
sit
by
and
listen
.
Before
long
Emmy
had
a
visiting-book
,
and
was
driving
about
regularly
in
a
carriage
,
calling
upon
Lady
Bludyer
(
wife
of
Major-General
Sir
Roger
Bludyer
,
K.C.B.
,
Bengal
Army
)
;
Lady
Huff
,
wife
of
Sir
G.
Huff
,
Bombay
ditto
;
Mrs.
Pice
,
the
Lady
of
Pice
the
Director
,
&
c
.
We
are
not
long
in
using
ourselves
to
changes
in
life
.
That
carriage
came
round
to
Gillespie
Street
every
day
;
that
buttony
boy
sprang
up
and
down
from
the
box
with
Emmy
's
and
Jos
's
visiting-cards
;
at
stated
hours
Emmy
and
the
carriage
went
for
Jos
to
the
Club
and
took
him
an
airing
;
or
,
putting
old
Sedley
into
the
vehicle
,
she
drove
the
old
man
round
the
Regent
's
Park
.
The
lady
's
maid
and
the
chariot
,
the
visiting-book
and
the
buttony
page
,
became
soon
as
familiar
to
Amelia
as
the
humble
routine
of
Brompton
.
She
accommodated
herself
to
one
as
to
the
other
.
If
Fate
had
ordained
that
she
should
be
a
Duchess
,
she
would
even
have
done
that
duty
too
.
She
was
voted
,
in
Jos
's
female
society
,
rather
a
pleasing
young
person
--
not
much
in
her
,
but
pleasing
,
and
that
sort
of
thing
.
