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"
Would
it
not
be
a
privilege
to
be
Miss
Crawley
's
sister
?
"
Briggs
replied
,
with
meek
evasion
.
"
Well
,
Becky
would
have
made
a
good
Lady
Crawley
,
after
all
,
"
Miss
Crawley
remarked
(
who
was
mollified
by
the
girl
's
refusal
,
and
very
liberal
and
generous
now
there
was
no
call
for
her
sacrifices
)
.
"
She
has
brains
in
plenty
(
much
more
wit
in
her
little
finger
than
you
have
,
my
poor
dear
Briggs
,
in
all
your
head
)
.
Her
manners
are
excellent
,
now
I
have
formed
her
.
She
is
a
Montmorency
,
Briggs
,
and
blood
is
something
,
though
I
despise
it
for
my
part
;
and
she
would
have
held
her
own
amongst
those
pompous
stupid
Hampshire
people
much
better
than
that
unfortunate
ironmonger
's
daughter
.
"
Briggs
coincided
as
usual
,
and
the
"
previous
attachment
"
was
then
discussed
in
conjectures
.
"
You
poor
friendless
creatures
are
always
having
some
foolish
tendre
,
"
Miss
Crawley
said
.
"
You
yourself
,
you
know
,
were
in
love
with
a
writing-master
(
do
n't
cry
,
Briggs
--
you
're
always
crying
,
and
it
wo
n't
bring
him
to
life
again
)
,
and
I
suppose
this
unfortunate
Becky
has
been
silly
and
sentimental
too
--
some
apothecary
,
or
house-steward
,
or
painter
,
or
young
curate
,
or
something
of
that
sort
.
"
"
Poor
thing
!
poor
thing
!
"
says
Briggs
(
who
was
thinking
of
twenty-four
years
back
,
and
that
hectic
young
writing-master
whose
lock
of
yellow
hair
,
and
whose
letters
,
beautiful
in
their
illegibility
,
she
cherished
in
her
old
desk
upstairs
)
.
"
Poor
thing
,
poor
thing
!
"
says
Briggs
.
Once
more
she
was
a
fresh-cheeked
lass
of
eighteen
;
she
was
at
evening
church
,
and
the
hectic
writing-master
and
she
were
quavering
out
of
the
same
psalm-book
.
"
After
such
conduct
on
Rebecca
's
part
,
"
Miss
Crawley
said
enthusiastically
,
"
our
family
should
do
something
.
Find
out
who
is
the
objet
,
Briggs
.
I
'll
set
him
up
in
a
shop
;
or
order
my
portrait
of
him
,
you
know
;
or
speak
to
my
cousin
,
the
Bishop
and
I
'll
doter
Becky
,
and
we
'll
have
a
wedding
,
Briggs
,
and
you
shall
make
the
breakfast
,
and
be
a
bridesmaid
.
"
Briggs
declared
that
it
would
be
delightful
,
and
vowed
that
her
dear
Miss
Crawley
was
always
kind
and
generous
,
and
went
up
to
Rebecca
's
bedroom
to
console
her
and
prattle
about
the
offer
,
and
the
refusal
,
and
the
cause
thereof
;
and
to
hint
at
the
generous
intentions
of
Miss
Crawley
,
and
to
find
out
who
was
the
gentleman
that
had
the
mastery
of
Miss
Sharp
's
heart
.
Rebecca
was
very
kind
,
very
affectionate
and
affected
--
responded
to
Briggs
's
offer
of
tenderness
with
grateful
fervour
--
owned
there
was
a
secret
attachment
--
a
delicious
mystery
--
what
a
pity
Miss
Briggs
had
not
remained
half
a
minute
longer
at
the
keyhole
!
Rebecca
might
,
perhaps
,
have
told
more
:
but
five
minutes
after
Miss
Briggs
's
arrival
in
Rebecca
's
apartment
,
Miss
Crawley
actually
made
her
appearance
there
--
an
unheard-of
honour
--
her
impatience
had
overcome
her
;
she
could
not
wait
for
the
tardy
operations
of
her
ambassadress
:
so
she
came
in
person
,
and
ordered
Briggs
out
of
the
room
.
And
expressing
her
approval
of
Rebecca
's
conduct
,
she
asked
particulars
of
the
interview
,
and
the
previous
transactions
which
had
brought
about
the
astonishing
offer
of
Sir
Pitt
.
Rebecca
said
she
had
long
had
some
notion
of
the
partiality
with
which
Sir
Pitt
honoured
her
(
for
he
was
in
the
habit
of
making
his
feelings
known
in
a
very
frank
and
unreserved
manner
)
but
,
not
to
mention
private
reasons
with
which
she
would
not
for
the
present
trouble
Miss
Crawley
,
Sir
Pitt
's
age
,
station
,
and
habits
were
such
as
to
render
a
marriage
quite
impossible
;
and
could
a
woman
with
any
feeling
of
self-respect
and
any
decency
listen
to
proposals
at
such
a
moment
,
when
the
funeral
of
the
lover
's
deceased
wife
had
not
actually
taken
place
?
"
Nonsense
,
my
dear
,
you
would
never
have
refused
him
had
there
not
been
some
one
else
in
the
case
,
"
Miss
Crawley
said
,
coming
to
her
point
at
once
.
