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While
under
this
overpowering
impression
,
Miss
Amelia
neglected
her
twelve
dear
friends
at
Chiswick
most
cruelly
,
as
such
selfish
people
commonly
will
do
.
She
had
but
this
subject
,
of
course
,
to
think
about
;
and
Miss
Saltire
was
too
cold
for
a
confidante
,
and
she
could
n't
bring
her
mind
to
tell
Miss
Swartz
,
the
woolly-haired
young
heiress
from
St.
Kitt
's
.
She
had
little
Laura
Martin
home
for
the
holidays
;
and
my
belief
is
,
she
made
a
confidante
of
her
,
and
promised
that
Laura
should
come
and
live
with
her
when
she
was
married
,
and
gave
Laura
a
great
deal
of
information
regarding
the
passion
of
love
,
which
must
have
been
singularly
useful
and
novel
to
that
little
person
.
Alas
,
alas
!
I
fear
poor
Emmy
had
not
a
well-regulated
mind
.
What
were
her
parents
doing
,
not
to
keep
this
little
heart
from
beating
so
fast
?
Old
Sedley
did
not
seem
much
to
notice
matters
.
He
was
graver
of
late
,
and
his
City
affairs
absorbed
him
.
Mrs.
Sedley
was
of
so
easy
and
uninquisitive
a
nature
that
she
was
n't
even
jealous
.
Mr.
Jos
was
away
,
being
besieged
by
an
Irish
widow
at
Cheltenham
.
Amelia
had
the
house
to
herself
--
ah
!
too
much
to
herself
sometimes
--
not
that
she
ever
doubted
;
for
,
to
be
sure
,
George
must
be
at
the
Horse
Guards
;
and
he
ca
n't
always
get
leave
from
Chatham
;
and
he
must
see
his
friends
and
sisters
,
and
mingle
in
society
when
in
town
(
he
,
such
an
ornament
to
every
society
!
)
;
and
when
he
is
with
the
regiment
,
he
is
too
tired
to
write
long
letters
.
I
know
where
she
kept
that
packet
she
had
--
and
can
steal
in
and
out
of
her
chamber
like
Iachimo
--
like
Iachimo
?
No
--
that
is
a
bad
part
.
I
will
only
act
Moonshine
,
and
peep
harmless
into
the
bed
where
faith
and
beauty
and
innocence
lie
dreaming
.
But
if
Osborne
's
were
short
and
soldierlike
letters
,
it
must
be
confessed
,
that
were
Miss
Sedley
's
letters
to
Mr.
Osborne
to
be
published
,
we
should
have
to
extend
this
novel
to
such
a
multiplicity
of
volumes
as
not
the
most
sentimental
reader
could
support
;
that
she
not
only
filled
sheets
of
large
paper
,
but
crossed
them
with
the
most
astonishing
perverseness
;
that
she
wrote
whole
pages
out
of
poetry-books
without
the
least
pity
;
that
she
underlined
words
and
passages
with
quite
a
frantic
emphasis
;
and
,
in
fine
,
gave
the
usual
tokens
of
her
condition
.
She
was
n't
a
heroine
.
Her
letters
were
full
of
repetition
.
She
wrote
rather
doubtful
grammar
sometimes
,
and
in
her
verses
took
all
sorts
of
liberties
with
the
metre
But
oh
,
mesdames
,
if
you
are
not
allowed
to
touch
the
heart
sometimes
in
spite
of
syntax
,
and
are
not
to
be
loved
until
you
all
know
the
difference
between
trimeter
and
tetrameter
,
may
all
Poetry
go
to
the
deuce
,
and
every
schoolmaster
perish
miserably
!
I
fear
the
gentleman
to
whom
Miss
Amelia
's
letters
were
addressed
was
rather
an
obdurate
critic
.
Such
a
number
of
notes
followed
Lieutenant
Osborne
about
the
country
,
that
he
became
almost
ashamed
of
the
jokes
of
his
mess-room
companions
regarding
them
,
and
ordered
his
servant
never
to
deliver
them
except
at
his
private
apartment
.
He
was
seen
lighting
his
cigar
with
one
,
to
the
horror
of
Captain
Dobbin
,
who
,
it
is
my
belief
,
would
have
given
a
bank-note
for
the
document
.
For
some
time
George
strove
to
keep
the
liaison
a
secret
.
There
was
a
woman
in
the
case
,
that
he
admitted
.
"
And
not
the
first
either
,
"
said
Ensign
Spooney
to
Ensign
Stubble
.
"
That
Osborne
's
a
devil
of
a
fellow
.
There
was
a
judge
's
daughter
at
Demerara
went
almost
mad
about
him
;
then
there
was
that
beautiful
quadroon
girl
,
Miss
Pye
,
at
St.
Vincent
's
,
you
know
;
and
since
he
's
been
home
,
they
say
he
's
a
regular
Don
Giovanni
,
by
Jove
.
"
Stubble
and
Spooney
thought
that
to
be
a
"
regular
Don
Giovanni
,
by
Jove
"
was
one
of
the
finest
qualities
a
man
could
possess
,
and
Osborne
's
reputation
was
prodigious
amongst
the
young
men
of
the
regiment
.
He
was
famous
in
field-sports
,
famous
at
a
song
,
famous
on
parade
;
free
with
his
money
,
which
was
bountifully
supplied
by
his
father
.
His
coats
were
better
made
than
any
man
's
in
the
regiment
,
and
he
had
more
of
them
.
He
was
adored
by
the
men
.
He
could
drink
more
than
any
officer
of
the
whole
mess
,
including
old
Heavytop
,
the
colonel
.
He
could
spar
better
than
Knuckles
,
the
private
(
who
would
have
been
a
corporal
but
for
his
drunkenness
,
and
who
had
been
in
the
prize-ring
)
;
and
was
the
best
batter
and
bowler
,
out
and
out
,
of
the
regimental
club
.
He
rode
his
own
horse
,
Greased
Lightning
,
and
won
the
Garrison
cup
at
Quebec
races
.
There
were
other
people
besides
Amelia
who
worshipped
him
.
Stubble
and
Spooney
thought
him
a
sort
of
Apollo
;
Dobbin
took
him
to
be
an
Admirable
Crichton
;
and
Mrs.
Major
O'Dowd
acknowledged
he
was
an
elegant
young
fellow
,
and
put
her
in
mind
of
Fitzjurld
Fogarty
,
Lord
Castlefogarty
's
second
son
.
Well
,
Stubble
and
Spooney
and
the
rest
indulged
in
most
romantic
conjectures
regarding
this
female
correspondent
of
Osborne
's
--
opining
that
it
was
a
Duchess
in
London
who
was
in
love
with
him
--
or
that
it
was
a
General
's
daughter
,
who
was
engaged
to
somebody
else
,
and
madly
attached
to
him
--
or
that
it
was
a
Member
of
Parliament
's
lady
,
who
proposed
four
horses
and
an
elopement
--
or
that
it
was
some
other
victim
of
a
passion
delightfully
exciting
,
romantic
,
and
disgraceful
to
all
parties
,
on
none
of
which
conjectures
would
Osborne
throw
the
least
light
,
leaving
his
young
admirers
and
friends
to
invent
and
arrange
their
whole
history
.
