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"
Do
n't
be
trying
to
deprecate
the
value
of
the
lot
,
Mr.
Moss
,
"
Mr.
Hammerdown
said
;
"
let
the
company
examine
it
as
a
work
of
art
--
the
attitude
of
the
gallant
animal
quite
according
to
natur
'
;
the
gentleman
in
a
nankeen
jacket
,
his
gun
in
his
hand
,
is
going
to
the
chase
;
in
the
distance
a
banyhann
tree
and
a
pagody
,
most
likely
resemblances
of
some
interesting
spot
in
our
famous
Eastern
possessions
.
How
much
for
this
lot
?
Come
,
gentlemen
,
do
n't
keep
me
here
all
day
.
"
Some
one
bid
five
shillings
,
at
which
the
military
gentleman
looked
towards
the
quarter
from
which
this
splendid
offer
had
come
,
and
there
saw
another
officer
with
a
young
lady
on
his
arm
,
who
both
appeared
to
be
highly
amused
with
the
scene
,
and
to
whom
,
finally
,
this
lot
was
knocked
down
for
half
a
guinea
.
He
at
the
table
looked
more
surprised
and
discomposed
than
ever
when
he
spied
this
pair
,
and
his
head
sank
into
his
military
collar
,
and
he
turned
his
back
upon
them
,
so
as
to
avoid
them
altogether
.
Of
all
the
other
articles
which
Mr.
Hammerdown
had
the
honour
to
offer
for
public
competition
that
day
it
is
not
our
purpose
to
make
mention
,
save
of
one
only
,
a
little
square
piano
,
which
came
down
from
the
upper
regions
of
the
house
(
the
state
grand
piano
having
been
disposed
of
previously
)
;
this
the
young
lady
tried
with
a
rapid
and
skilful
hand
(
making
the
officer
blush
and
start
again
)
,
and
for
it
,
when
its
turn
came
,
her
agent
began
to
bid
.
But
there
was
an
opposition
here
.
The
Hebrew
aide-de-camp
in
the
service
of
the
officer
at
the
table
bid
against
the
Hebrew
gentleman
employed
by
the
elephant
purchasers
,
and
a
brisk
battle
ensued
over
this
little
piano
,
the
combatants
being
greatly
encouraged
by
Mr.
Hammerdown
.
At
last
,
when
the
competition
had
been
prolonged
for
some
time
,
the
elephant
captain
and
lady
desisted
from
the
race
;
and
the
hammer
coming
down
,
the
auctioneer
said
:
--
"
Mr.
Lewis
,
twenty-five
,
"
and
Mr.
Lewis
's
chief
thus
became
the
proprietor
of
the
little
square
piano
.
Having
effected
the
purchase
,
he
sate
up
as
if
he
was
greatly
relieved
,
and
the
unsuccessful
competitors
catching
a
glimpse
of
him
at
this
moment
,
the
lady
said
to
her
friend
,
"
Why
,
Rawdon
,
it
's
Captain
Dobbin
.
"
I
suppose
Becky
was
discontented
with
the
new
piano
her
husband
had
hired
for
her
,
or
perhaps
the
proprietors
of
that
instrument
had
fetched
it
away
,
declining
farther
credit
,
or
perhaps
she
had
a
particular
attachment
for
the
one
which
she
had
just
tried
to
purchase
,
recollecting
it
in
old
days
,
when
she
used
to
play
upon
it
,
in
the
little
sitting-room
of
our
dear
Amelia
Sedley
.
The
sale
was
at
the
old
house
in
Russell
Square
,
where
we
passed
some
evenings
together
at
the
beginning
of
this
story
.
Good
old
John
Sedley
was
a
ruined
man
.
His
name
had
been
proclaimed
as
a
defaulter
on
the
Stock
Exchange
,
and
his
bankruptcy
and
commercial
extermination
had
followed
.
Mr.
Osborne
's
butler
came
to
buy
some
of
the
famous
port
wine
to
transfer
to
the
cellars
over
the
way
.
