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Indeed
it
was
from
this
famous
family
,
as
it
appears
,
that
Miss
Sharp
,
by
the
mother
's
side
,
was
descended
.
Of
course
she
did
not
say
that
her
mother
had
been
on
the
stage
;
it
would
have
shocked
Mr.
Crawley
's
religious
scruples
.
How
many
noble
emigres
had
this
horrid
revolution
plunged
in
poverty
!
She
had
several
stories
about
her
ancestors
ere
she
had
been
many
months
in
the
house
;
some
of
which
Mr.
Crawley
happened
to
find
in
D'Hozier
's
dictionary
,
which
was
in
the
library
,
and
which
strengthened
his
belief
in
their
truth
,
and
in
the
high-breeding
of
Rebecca
.
Are
we
to
suppose
from
this
curiosity
and
prying
into
dictionaries
,
could
our
heroine
suppose
that
Mr.
Crawley
was
interested
in
her
?
--
no
,
only
in
a
friendly
way
.
Have
we
not
stated
that
he
was
attached
to
Lady
Jane
Sheepshanks
?
He
took
Rebecca
to
task
once
or
twice
about
the
propriety
of
playing
at
backgammon
with
Sir
Pitt
,
saying
that
it
was
a
godless
amusement
,
and
that
she
would
be
much
better
engaged
in
reading
"
Thrump
's
Legacy
,
"
or
"
The
Blind
Washerwoman
of
Moorfields
,
"
or
any
work
of
a
more
serious
nature
;
but
Miss
Sharp
said
her
dear
mother
used
often
to
play
the
same
game
with
the
old
Count
de
Trictrac
and
the
venerable
Abbe
du
Cornet
,
and
so
found
an
excuse
for
this
and
other
worldly
amusements
.
But
it
was
not
only
by
playing
at
backgammon
with
the
Baronet
,
that
the
little
governess
rendered
herself
agreeable
to
her
employer
.
She
found
many
different
ways
of
being
useful
to
him
.
She
read
over
,
with
indefatigable
patience
,
all
those
law
papers
,
with
which
,
before
she
came
to
Queen
's
Crawley
,
he
had
promised
to
entertain
her
.
She
volunteered
to
copy
many
of
his
letters
,
and
adroitly
altered
the
spelling
of
them
so
as
to
suit
the
usages
of
the
present
day
.
She
became
interested
in
everything
appertaining
to
the
estate
,
to
the
farm
,
the
park
,
the
garden
,
and
the
stables
;
and
so
delightful
a
companion
was
she
,
that
the
Baronet
would
seldom
take
his
after-breakfast
walk
without
her
(
and
the
children
of
course
)
,
when
she
would
give
her
advice
as
to
the
trees
which
were
to
be
lopped
in
the
shrubberies
,
the
garden-beds
to
be
dug
,
the
crops
which
were
to
be
cut
,
the
horses
which
were
to
go
to
cart
or
plough
.
Before
she
had
been
a
year
at
Queen
's
Crawley
she
had
quite
won
the
Baronet
's
confidence
;
and
the
conversation
at
the
dinner-table
,
which
before
used
to
be
held
between
him
and
Mr.
Horrocks
the
butler
,
was
now
almost
exclusively
between
Sir
Pitt
and
Miss
Sharp
.
She
was
almost
mistress
of
the
house
when
Mr.
Crawley
was
absent
,
but
conducted
herself
in
her
new
and
exalted
situation
with
such
circumspection
and
modesty
as
not
to
offend
the
authorities
of
the
kitchen
and
stable
,
among
whom
her
behaviour
was
always
exceedingly
modest
and
affable
.
She
was
quite
a
different
person
from
the
haughty
,
shy
,
dissatisfied
little
girl
whom
we
have
known
previously
,
and
this
change
of
temper
proved
great
prudence
,
a
sincere
desire
of
amendment
,
or
at
any
rate
great
moral
courage
on
her
part
.
Whether
it
was
the
heart
which
dictated
this
new
system
of
complaisance
and
humility
adopted
by
our
Rebecca
,
is
to
be
proved
by
her
after-history
.
A
system
of
hypocrisy
,
which
lasts
through
whole
years
,
is
one
seldom
satisfactorily
practised
by
a
person
of
one-and-twenty
;
however
,
our
readers
will
recollect
,
that
,
though
young
in
years
,
our
heroine
was
old
in
life
and
experience
,
and
we
have
written
to
no
purpose
if
they
have
not
discovered
that
she
was
a
very
clever
woman
.
The
elder
and
younger
son
of
the
house
of
Crawley
were
,
like
the
gentleman
and
lady
in
the
weather-box
,
never
at
home
together
--
they
hated
each
other
cordially
:
indeed
,
Rawdon
Crawley
,
the
dragoon
,
had
a
great
contempt
for
the
establishment
altogether
,
and
seldom
came
thither
except
when
his
aunt
paid
her
annual
visit
.
The
great
good
quality
of
this
old
lady
has
been
mentioned
.
She
possessed
seventy
thousand
pounds
,
and
had
almost
adopted
Rawdon
.
She
disliked
her
elder
nephew
exceedingly
,
and
despised
him
as
a
milksop
.
In
return
he
did
not
hesitate
to
state
that
her
soul
was
irretrievably
lost
,
and
was
of
opinion
that
his
brother
's
chance
in
the
next
world
was
not
a
whit
better
.
"
She
is
a
godless
woman
of
the
world
,
"
would
Mr.
Crawley
say
;
"
she
lives
with
atheists
and
Frenchmen
.
My
mind
shudders
when
I
think
of
her
awful
,
awful
situation
,
and
that
,
near
as
she
is
to
the
grave
,
she
should
be
so
given
up
to
vanity
,
licentiousness
,
profaneness
,
and
folly
.
"
In
fact
,
the
old
lady
declined
altogether
to
hear
his
hour
's
lecture
of
an
evening
;
and
when
she
came
to
Queen
's
Crawley
alone
,
he
was
obliged
to
pretermit
his
usual
devotional
exercises
.
"
Shut
up
your
sarmons
,
Pitt
,
when
Miss
Crawley
comes
down
,
"
said
his
father
;
"
she
has
written
to
say
that
she
wo
n't
stand
the
preachifying
.
"
"
O
,
sir
!
consider
the
servants
.
"
