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And
so
,
in
truth
,
she
was
--
for
father
and
son
too
.
We
must
now
take
leave
of
Arcadia
,
and
those
amiable
people
practising
the
rural
virtues
there
,
and
travel
back
to
London
,
to
inquire
what
has
become
of
Miss
Amelia
"
We
do
n't
care
a
fig
for
her
,
"
writes
some
unknown
correspondent
with
a
pretty
little
handwriting
and
a
pink
seal
to
her
note
.
"
She
is
fade
and
insipid
,
"
and
adds
some
more
kind
remarks
in
this
strain
,
which
I
should
never
have
repeated
at
all
,
but
that
they
are
in
truth
prodigiously
complimentary
to
the
young
lady
whom
they
concern
.
Has
the
beloved
reader
,
in
his
experience
of
society
,
never
heard
similar
remarks
by
good-natured
female
friends
;
who
always
wonder
what
you
CAN
see
in
Miss
Smith
that
is
so
fascinating
;
or
what
COULD
induce
Major
Jones
to
propose
for
that
silly
insignificant
simpering
Miss
Thompson
,
who
has
nothing
but
her
wax-doll
face
to
recommend
her
?
What
is
there
in
a
pair
of
pink
cheeks
and
blue
eyes
forsooth
?
these
dear
Moralists
ask
,
and
hint
wisely
that
the
gifts
of
genius
,
the
accomplishments
of
the
mind
,
the
mastery
of
Mangnall
's
Questions
,
and
a
ladylike
knowledge
of
botany
and
geology
,
the
knack
of
making
poetry
,
the
power
of
rattling
sonatas
in
the
Herz-manner
,
and
so
forth
,
are
far
more
valuable
endowments
for
a
female
,
than
those
fugitive
charms
which
a
few
years
will
inevitably
tarnish
.
It
is
quite
edifying
to
hear
women
speculate
upon
the
worthlessness
and
the
duration
of
beauty
.
But
though
virtue
is
a
much
finer
thing
,
and
those
hapless
creatures
who
suffer
under
the
misfortune
of
good
looks
ought
to
be
continually
put
in
mind
of
the
fate
which
awaits
them
;
and
though
,
very
likely
,
the
heroic
female
character
which
ladies
admire
is
a
more
glorious
and
beautiful
object
than
the
kind
,
fresh
,
smiling
,
artless
,
tender
little
domestic
goddess
,
whom
men
are
inclined
to
worship
--
yet
the
latter
and
inferior
sort
of
women
must
have
this
consolation
--
that
the
men
do
admire
them
after
all
;
and
that
,
in
spite
of
all
our
kind
friends
'
warnings
and
protests
,
we
go
on
in
our
desperate
error
and
folly
,
and
shall
to
the
end
of
the
chapter
.
Indeed
,
for
my
own
part
,
though
I
have
been
repeatedly
told
by
persons
for
whom
I
have
the
greatest
respect
,
that
Miss
Brown
is
an
insignificant
chit
,
and
Mrs.
White
has
nothing
but
her
petit
minois
chiffonne
,
and
Mrs.
Black
has
not
a
word
to
say
for
herself
;
yet
I
know
that
I
have
had
the
most
delightful
conversations
with
Mrs.
Black
(
of
course
,
my
dear
Madam
,
they
are
inviolable
)
:
I
see
all
the
men
in
a
cluster
round
Mrs.
White
's
chair
:
all
the
young
fellows
battling
to
dance
with
Miss
Brown
;
and
so
I
am
tempted
to
think
that
to
be
despised
by
her
sex
is
a
very
great
compliment
to
a
woman
.
The
young
ladies
in
Amelia
's
society
did
this
for
her
very
satisfactorily
.
For
instance
,
there
was
scarcely
any
point
upon
which
the
Misses
Osborne
,
George
's
sisters
,
and
the
Mesdemoiselles
Dobbin
agreed
so
well
as
in
their
estimate
of
her
very
trifling
merits
:
and
their
wonder
that
their
brothers
could
find
any
charms
in
her
.
"
We
are
kind
to
her
,
"
the
Misses
Osborne
said
,
a
pair
of
fine
black-browed
young
ladies
who
had
had
the
best
of
governesses
,
masters
,
and
milliners
;
and
they
treated
her
with
such
extreme
kindness
and
condescension
,
and
patronised
her
so
insufferably
,
that
the
poor
little
thing
was
in
fact
perfectly
dumb
in
their
presence
,
and
to
all
outward
appearance
as
stupid
as
they
thought
her
.
She
made
efforts
to
like
them
,
as
in
duty
bound
,
and
as
sisters
of
her
future
husband
.
She
passed
"
long
mornings
"
with
them
--
the
most
dreary
and
serious
of
forenoons
.
She
drove
out
solemnly
in
their
great
family
coach
with
them
,
and
Miss
Wirt
their
governess
,
that
raw-boned
Vestal
.
They
took
her
to
the
ancient
concerts
by
way
of
a
treat
,
and
to
the
oratorio
,
and
to
St.
Paul
's
to
see
the
charity
children
,
where
in
such
terror
was
she
of
her
friends
,
she
almost
did
not
dare
be
affected
by
the
hymn
the
children
sang
.
Their
house
was
comfortable
;
their
papa
's
table
rich
and
handsome
;
their
society
solemn
and
genteel
;
their
self-respect
prodigious
;
they
had
the
best
pew
at
the
Foundling
:
all
their
habits
were
pompous
and
orderly
,
and
all
their
amusements
intolerably
dull
and
decorous
.
After
every
one
of
her
visits
(
and
oh
how
glad
she
was
when
they
were
over
!
)
Miss
Osborne
and
Miss
Maria
Osborne
,
and
Miss
Wirt
,
the
vestal
governess
,
asked
each
other
with
increased
wonder
,
"
What
could
George
find
in
that
creature
?
"
How
is
this
?
some
carping
reader
exclaims
.
How
is
it
that
Amelia
,
who
had
such
a
number
of
friends
at
school
,
and
was
so
beloved
there
,
comes
out
into
the
world
and
is
spurned
by
her
discriminating
sex
?
My
dear
sir
,
there
were
no
men
at
Miss
Pinkerton
's
establishment
except
the
old
dancing-master
;
and
you
would
not
have
had
the
girls
fall
out
about
HIM
?
When
George
,
their
handsome
brother
,
ran
off
directly
after
breakfast
,
and
dined
from
home
half-a-dozen
times
a
week
,
no
wonder
the
neglected
sisters
felt
a
little
vexation
.
When
young
Bullock
(
of
the
firm
of
Hulker
,
Bullock
&
Co.
,
Bankers
,
Lombard
Street
)
,
who
had
been
making
up
to
Miss
Maria
the
last
two
seasons
,
actually
asked
Amelia
to
dance
the
cotillon
,
could
you
expect
that
the
former
young
lady
should
be
pleased
?
And
yet
she
said
she
was
,
like
an
artless
forgiving
creature
.
"
I
'm
so
delighted
you
like
dear
Amelia
,
"
she
said
quite
eagerly
to
Mr.
Bullock
after
the
dance
.
"
She
's
engaged
to
my
brother
George
;
there
's
not
much
in
her
,
but
she
's
the
best-natured
and
most
unaffected
young
creature
:
at
home
we
're
all
so
fond
of
her
.
"
Dear
girl
!
who
can
calculate
the
depth
of
affection
expressed
in
that
enthusiastic
SO
?
Miss
Wirt
and
these
two
affectionate
young
women
so
earnestly
and
frequently
impressed
upon
George
Osborne
's
mind
the
enormity
of
the
sacrifice
he
was
making
,
and
his
romantic
generosity
in
throwing
himself
away
upon
Amelia
,
that
I
'm
not
sure
but
that
he
really
thought
he
was
one
of
the
most
deserving
characters
in
the
British
army
,
and
gave
himself
up
to
be
loved
with
a
good
deal
of
easy
resignation
.
