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But
he
was
unluckily
endowed
with
a
good
name
and
a
large
though
encumbered
estate
,
both
of
which
went
rather
to
injure
than
to
advance
him
.
He
had
a
taste
for
law
,
which
cost
him
many
thousands
yearly
;
and
being
a
great
deal
too
clever
to
be
robbed
,
as
he
said
,
by
any
single
agent
,
allowed
his
affairs
to
be
mismanaged
by
a
dozen
,
whom
he
all
equally
mistrusted
.
He
was
such
a
sharp
landlord
,
that
he
could
hardly
find
any
but
bankrupt
tenants
;
and
such
a
close
farmer
,
as
to
grudge
almost
the
seed
to
the
ground
,
whereupon
revengeful
Nature
grudged
him
the
crops
which
she
granted
to
more
liberal
husbandmen
.
He
speculated
in
every
possible
way
;
he
worked
mines
;
bought
canal-shares
;
horsed
coaches
;
took
government
contracts
,
and
was
the
busiest
man
and
magistrate
of
his
county
.
As
he
would
not
pay
honest
agents
at
his
granite
quarry
,
he
had
the
satisfaction
of
finding
that
four
overseers
ran
away
,
and
took
fortunes
with
them
to
America
.
For
want
of
proper
precautions
,
his
coal-mines
filled
with
water
:
the
government
flung
his
contract
of
damaged
beef
upon
his
hands
:
and
for
his
coach-horses
,
every
mail
proprietor
in
the
kingdom
knew
that
he
lost
more
horses
than
any
man
in
the
country
,
from
underfeeding
and
buying
cheap
.
In
disposition
he
was
sociable
,
and
far
from
being
proud
;
nay
,
he
rather
preferred
the
society
of
a
farmer
or
a
horse-dealer
to
that
of
a
gentleman
,
like
my
lord
,
his
son
:
he
was
fond
of
drink
,
of
swearing
,
of
joking
with
the
farmers
'
daughters
:
he
was
never
known
to
give
away
a
shilling
or
to
do
a
good
action
,
but
was
of
a
pleasant
,
sly
,
laughing
mood
,
and
would
cut
his
joke
and
drink
his
glass
with
a
tenant
and
sell
him
up
the
next
day
;
or
have
his
laugh
with
the
poacher
he
was
transporting
with
equal
good
humour
.
His
politeness
for
the
fair
sex
has
already
been
hinted
at
by
Miss
Rebecca
Sharp
--
in
a
word
,
the
whole
baronetage
,
peerage
,
commonage
of
England
,
did
not
contain
a
more
cunning
,
mean
,
selfish
,
foolish
,
disreputable
old
man
.
That
blood-red
hand
of
Sir
Pitt
Crawley
's
would
be
in
anybody
's
pocket
except
his
own
;
and
it
is
with
grief
and
pain
,
that
,
as
admirers
of
the
British
aristocracy
,
we
find
ourselves
obliged
to
admit
the
existence
of
so
many
ill
qualities
in
a
person
whose
name
is
in
Debrett
.
One
great
cause
why
Mr.
Crawley
had
such
a
hold
over
the
affections
of
his
father
,
resulted
from
money
arrangements
.
The
Baronet
owed
his
son
a
sum
of
money
out
of
the
jointure
of
his
mother
,
which
he
did
not
find
it
convenient
to
pay
;
indeed
he
had
an
almost
invincible
repugnance
to
paying
anybody
,
and
could
only
be
brought
by
force
to
discharge
his
debts
.
Miss
Sharp
calculated
(
for
she
became
,
as
we
shall
hear
speedily
,
inducted
into
most
of
the
secrets
of
the
family
)
that
the
mere
payment
of
his
creditors
cost
the
honourable
Baronet
several
hundreds
yearly
;
but
this
was
a
delight
he
could
not
forego
;
he
had
a
savage
pleasure
in
making
the
poor
wretches
wait
,
and
in
shifting
from
court
to
court
and
from
term
to
term
the
period
of
satisfaction
.
What
's
the
good
of
being
in
Parliament
,
he
said
,
if
you
must
pay
your
debts
?
Hence
,
indeed
,
his
position
as
a
senator
was
not
a
little
useful
to
him
.
Vanity
Fair
--
Vanity
Fair
!
Here
was
a
man
,
who
could
not
spell
,
and
did
not
care
to
read
--
who
had
the
habits
and
the
cunning
of
a
boor
:
whose
aim
in
life
was
pettifogging
:
who
never
had
a
taste
,
or
emotion
,
or
enjoyment
,
but
what
was
sordid
and
foul
;
and
yet
he
had
rank
,
and
honours
,
and
power
,
somehow
:
and
was
a
dignitary
of
the
land
,
and
a
pillar
of
the
state
.
He
was
high
sheriff
,
and
rode
in
a
golden
coach
.
Great
ministers
and
statesmen
courted
him
;
and
in
Vanity
Fair
he
had
a
higher
place
than
the
most
brilliant
genius
or
spotless
virtue
.
Sir
Pitt
had
an
unmarried
half-sister
who
inherited
her
mother
's
large
fortune
,
and
though
the
Baronet
proposed
to
borrow
this
money
of
her
on
mortgage
,
Miss
Crawley
declined
the
offer
,
and
preferred
the
security
of
the
funds
.
She
had
signified
,
however
,
her
intention
of
leaving
her
inheritance
between
Sir
Pitt
's
second
son
and
the
family
at
the
Rectory
,
and
had
once
or
twice
paid
the
debts
of
Rawdon
Crawley
in
his
career
at
college
and
in
the
army
.
Miss
Crawley
was
,
in
consequence
,
an
object
of
great
respect
when
she
came
to
Queen
's
Crawley
,
for
she
had
a
balance
at
her
banker
's
which
would
have
made
her
beloved
anywhere
.
What
a
dignity
it
gives
an
old
lady
,
that
balance
at
the
banker
's
!
How
tenderly
we
look
at
her
faults
if
she
is
a
relative
(
and
may
every
reader
have
a
score
of
such
)
,
what
a
kind
good-natured
old
creature
we
find
her
!
How
the
junior
partner
of
Hobbs
and
Dobbs
leads
her
smiling
to
the
carriage
with
the
lozenge
upon
it
,
and
the
fat
wheezy
coachman
!
How
,
when
she
comes
to
pay
us
a
visit
,
we
generally
find
an
opportunity
to
let
our
friends
know
her
station
in
the
world
!
We
say
(
and
with
perfect
truth
)
I
wish
I
had
Miss
MacWhirter
's
signature
to
a
cheque
for
five
thousand
pounds
.
She
would
n't
miss
it
,
says
your
wife
.
She
is
my
aunt
,
say
you
,
in
an
easy
careless
way
,
when
your
friend
asks
if
Miss
MacWhirter
is
any
relative
.
Your
wife
is
perpetually
sending
her
little
testimonies
of
affection
,
your
little
girls
work
endless
worsted
baskets
,
cushions
,
and
footstools
for
her
.
What
a
good
fire
there
is
in
her
room
when
she
comes
to
pay
you
a
visit
,
although
your
wife
laces
her
stays
without
one
!
The
house
during
her
stay
assumes
a
festive
,
neat
,
warm
,
jovial
,
snug
appearance
not
visible
at
other
seasons
.
You
yourself
,
dear
sir
,
forget
to
go
to
sleep
after
dinner
,
and
find
yourself
all
of
a
sudden
(
though
you
invariably
lose
)
very
fond
of
a
rubber
.
What
good
dinners
you
have
--
game
every
day
,
Malmsey-Madeira
,
and
no
end
of
fish
from
London
Even
the
servants
in
the
kitchen
share
in
the
general
prosperity
;
and
,
somehow
,
during
the
stay
of
Miss
MacWhirter
's
fat
coachman
,
the
beer
is
grown
much
stronger
,
and
the
consumption
of
tea
and
sugar
in
the
nursery
(
where
her
maid
takes
her
meals
)
is
not
regarded
in
the
least
.
Is
it
so
,
or
is
it
not
so
?
I
appeal
to
the
middle
classes
.
Ah
,
gracious
powers
!
I
wish
you
would
send
me
an
old
aunt
--
a
maiden
aunt
--
an
aunt
with
a
lozenge
on
her
carriage
,
and
a
front
of
light
coffee-coloured
hair
--
how
my
children
should
work
workbags
for
her
,
and
my
Julia
and
I
would
make
her
comfortable
!
Sweet
--
sweet
vision
!
Foolish
--
foolish
dream
!
And
now
,
being
received
as
a
member
of
the
amiable
family
whose
portraits
we
have
sketched
in
the
foregoing
pages
,
it
became
naturally
Rebecca
's
duty
to
make
herself
,
as
she
said
,
agreeable
to
her
benefactors
,
and
to
gain
their
confidence
to
the
utmost
of
her
power
.
Who
can
but
admire
this
quality
of
gratitude
in
an
unprotected
orphan
;
and
,
if
there
entered
some
degree
of
selfishness
into
her
calculations
,
who
can
say
but
that
her
prudence
was
perfectly
justifiable
?
"
I
am
alone
in
the
world
,
"
said
the
friendless
girl
.
"
I
have
nothing
to
look
for
but
what
my
own
labour
can
bring
me
;
and
while
that
little
pink-faced
chit
Amelia
,
with
not
half
my
sense
,
has
ten
thousand
pounds
and
an
establishment
secure
,
poor
Rebecca
(
and
my
figure
is
far
better
than
hers
)
has
only
herself
and
her
own
wits
to
trust
to
.
Well
,
let
us
see
if
my
wits
can
not
provide
me
with
an
honourable
maintenance
,
and
if
some
day
or
the
other
I
can
not
show
Miss
Amelia
my
real
superiority
over
her
.
Not
that
I
dislike
poor
Amelia
:
who
can
dislike
such
a
harmless
,
good-natured
creature
?
--
only
it
will
be
a
fine
day
when
I
can
take
my
place
above
her
in
the
world
,
as
why
,
indeed
,
should
I
not
?
"
Thus
it
was
that
our
little
romantic
friend
formed
visions
of
the
future
for
herself
--
nor
must
we
be
scandalised
that
,
in
all
her
castles
in
the
air
,
a
husband
was
the
principal
inhabitant
.
