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In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her

           Sheandherhousehold,however,consideredthatshehadbeenthevictimofhorribleselfishnessandtreason,andthathersacrificesinMissCrawley’sbehalfhadmetwiththemostsavageingratitude.Rawdon’spromotion,andthehonourablementionmadeofhisnameintheGazette,filledthisgoodChristianladyalsowithalarm.WouldhisauntrelenttowardshimnowthathewasaLieutenant-ColonelandaC.B.?andwouldthatodiousRebeccaoncemoregetintofavour?TheRector’swifewroteasermonforherhusbandaboutthevanityofmilitarygloryandtheprosperityofthewicked,whichtheworthyparsonreadinhisbestvoiceandwithoutunderstandingonesyllableofit.HehadPittCrawleyforoneofhisauditorsPitt,whohadcomewithhistwohalf-sisterstochurch,whichtheoldBaronetcouldnowbynomeansbebroughttofrequent.

           SincethedepartureofBeckySharp,thatoldwretchhadgivenhimselfupentirelytohisbadcourses,tothegreatscandalofthecountyandthemutehorrorofhisson.TheribbonsinMissHorrocks’scapbecamemoresplendidthanever.Thepolitefamiliesfledthehallanditsownerinterror.SirPittwentabouttipplingathistenants’houses;anddrankrum-and-waterwiththefarmersatMudburyandtheneighbouringplacesonmarket-days.Hedrovethefamilycoach-and-fourtoSouthamptonwithMissHorrocksinside:andthecountypeopleexpected,everyweek,ashissondidinspeechlessagony,thathismarriagewithherwouldbeannouncedintheprovincialpaper.ItwasindeedarudeburthenforMr.

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