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We
all
walked
together
and
talked
to
the
stout
gentleman
about
the
agremens
of
the
place
.
It
was
very
agreeable
for
the
English
.
There
were
shooting-parties
and
battues
;
there
was
a
plenty
of
balls
and
entertainments
at
the
hospitable
Court
;
the
society
was
generally
good
;
the
theatre
excellent
;
and
the
living
cheap
.
"
And
our
Minister
seems
a
most
delightful
and
affable
person
,
"
our
new
friend
said
.
"
With
such
a
representative
,
and
--
and
a
good
medical
man
,
I
can
fancy
the
place
to
be
most
eligible
.
Good-night
,
gentlemen
.
"
And
Jos
creaked
up
the
stairs
to
bedward
,
followed
by
Kirsch
with
a
flambeau
.
We
rather
hoped
that
nice-looking
woman
would
be
induced
to
stay
some
time
in
the
town
.
Such
polite
behaviour
as
that
of
Lord
Tapeworm
did
not
fail
to
have
the
most
favourable
effect
upon
Mr.
Sedley
's
mind
,
and
the
very
next
morning
,
at
breakfast
,
he
pronounced
his
opinion
that
Pumpernickel
was
the
pleasantest
little
place
of
any
which
he
had
visited
on
their
tour
.
Jos
's
motives
and
artifices
were
not
very
difficult
of
comprehension
,
and
Dobbin
laughed
in
his
sleeve
,
like
a
hypocrite
as
he
was
,
when
he
found
,
by
the
knowing
air
of
the
civilian
and
the
offhand
manner
in
which
the
latter
talked
about
Tapeworm
Castle
and
the
other
members
of
the
family
,
that
Jos
had
been
up
already
in
the
morning
,
consulting
his
travelling
Peerage
.
Yes
,
he
had
seen
the
Right
Honourable
the
Earl
of
Bagwig
,
his
lordship
's
father
;
he
was
sure
he
had
,
he
had
met
him
at
--
at
the
Levee
--
did
n't
Dob
remember
?
and
when
the
Diplomatist
called
on
the
party
,
faithful
to
his
promise
,
Jos
received
him
with
such
a
salute
and
honours
as
were
seldom
accorded
to
the
little
Envoy
.
He
winked
at
Kirsch
on
his
Excellency
's
arrival
,
and
that
emissary
,
instructed
before-hand
,
went
out
and
superintended
an
entertainment
of
cold
meats
,
jellies
,
and
other
delicacies
,
brought
in
upon
trays
,
and
of
which
Mr.
Jos
absolutely
insisted
that
his
noble
guest
should
partake
.
Tapeworm
,
so
long
as
he
could
have
an
opportunity
of
admiring
the
bright
eyes
of
Mrs.
Osborne
(
whose
freshness
of
complexion
bore
daylight
remarkably
well
)
was
not
ill
pleased
to
accept
any
invitation
to
stay
in
Mr.
Sedley
's
lodgings
;
he
put
one
or
two
dexterous
questions
to
him
about
India
and
the
dancing-girls
there
;
asked
Amelia
about
that
beautiful
boy
who
had
been
with
her
;
and
complimented
the
astonished
little
woman
upon
the
prodigious
sensation
which
she
had
made
in
the
house
;
and
tried
to
fascinate
Dobbin
by
talking
of
the
late
war
and
the
exploits
of
the
Pumpernickel
contingent
under
the
command
of
the
Hereditary
Prince
,
now
Duke
of
Pumpernickel
.
Lord
Tapeworm
inherited
no
little
portion
of
the
family
gallantry
,
and
it
was
his
happy
belief
that
almost
every
woman
upon
whom
he
himself
cast
friendly
eyes
was
in
love
with
him
.
He
left
Emmy
under
the
persuasion
that
she
was
slain
by
his
wit
and
attractions
and
went
home
to
his
lodgings
to
write
a
pretty
little
note
to
her
.
She
was
not
fascinated
,
only
puzzled
,
by
his
grinning
,
his
simpering
,
his
scented
cambric
handkerchief
,
and
his
high-heeled
lacquered
boots
.
She
did
not
understand
one-half
the
compliments
which
he
paid
;
she
had
never
,
in
her
small
experience
of
mankind
,
met
a
professional
ladies
'
man
as
yet
,
and
looked
upon
my
lord
as
something
curious
rather
than
pleasant
;
and
if
she
did
not
admire
,
certainly
wondered
at
him
.
Jos
,
on
the
contrary
,
was
delighted
.
"
How
very
affable
his
Lordship
is
,
"
he
said
;
"
How
very
kind
of
his
Lordship
to
say
he
would
send
his
medical
man
!
Kirsch
,
you
will
carry
our
cards
to
the
Count
de
Schlusselback
directly
;
the
Major
and
I
will
have
the
greatest
pleasure
in
paying
our
respects
at
Court
as
soon
as
possible
.
Put
out
my
uniform
,
Kirsch
--
both
our
uniforms
.
It
is
a
mark
of
politeness
which
every
English
gentleman
ought
to
show
to
the
countries
which
he
visits
to
pay
his
respects
to
the
sovereigns
of
those
countries
as
to
the
representatives
of
his
own
.
"
When
Tapeworm
's
doctor
came
,
Doctor
von
Glauber
,
Body
Physician
to
H.S.H.
the
Duke
,
he
speedily
convinced
Jos
that
the
Pumpernickel
mineral
springs
and
the
Doctor
's
particular
treatment
would
infallibly
restore
the
Bengalee
to
youth
and
slimness
.
"
Dere
came
here
last
year
,
"
he
said
,
"
Sheneral
Bulkeley
,
an
English
Sheneral
,
tvice
so
pic
as
you
,
sir
.
I
sent
him
back
qvite
tin
after
tree
months
,
and
he
danced
vid
Baroness
Glauber
at
the
end
of
two
.
"
Jos
's
mind
was
made
up
;
the
springs
,
the
Doctor
,
the
Court
,
and
the
Charge
d'Affaires
convinced
him
,
and
he
proposed
to
spend
the
autumn
in
these
delightful
quarters
.
And
punctual
to
his
word
,
on
the
next
day
the
Charge
d'Affaires
presented
Jos
and
the
Major
to
Victor
Aurelius
XVII
,
being
conducted
to
their
audience
with
that
sovereign
by
the
Count
de
Schlusselback
,
Marshal
of
the
Court
.
They
were
straightway
invited
to
dinner
at
Court
,
and
their
intention
of
staying
in
the
town
being
announced
,
the
politest
ladies
of
the
whole
town
instantly
called
upon
Mrs.
Osborne
;
and
as
not
one
of
these
,
however
poor
they
might
be
,
was
under
the
rank
of
a
Baroness
,
Jos
's
delight
was
beyond
expression
.
