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In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape

           LadyO’DowdisoneofthegreatestladiesinthePresidencyofMadrasherquarrelwithLadySmith,wifeofSirMinosSmiththepuisnejudge,isstillrememberedbysomeatMadras,whentheColonel’sladysnappedherfingersintheJudge’slady’sfaceandsaidSHE’Dneverwalkbehindeverabeggarlycivilian.Evennow,thoughitisfive-and-twentyyearsago,peoplerememberLadyO’DowdperformingajigatGovernmentHouse,whereshedanceddowntwoAides-de-Camp,aMajorofMadrascavalry,andtwogentlemenoftheCivilService;and,persuadedbyMajorDobbin,C.B.,secondincommandoftheth,toretiretothesupper-room,lassatanondumsatiatarecessit.

           PeggyO’Dowdisindeedthesameasever,kindinactandthought;impetuousintemper;eagertocommand;atyrantoverherMichael;adragonamongstalltheladiesoftheregiment;amothertoalltheyoungmen,whomshetendsintheirsickness,defendsinalltheirscrapes,andwithwhomLadyPeggyisimmenselypopular.ButtheSubalterns’andCaptains’ladies(theMajorisunmarried)cabalagainstheragooddeal.TheysaythatGlorvinagivesherselfairsandthatPeggyherselfisilltolerablydomineering.SheinterferedwithalittlecongregationwhichMrs.Kirkhadgotupandlaughedtheyoungmenawayfromhersermons,statingthatasoldier’swifehadnobusinesstobeaparsonthatMrs.Kirkwouldbemuchbettermendingherhusband’sclothes;and,iftheregimentwantedsermons,thatshehadthefinestintheworld,thoseofheruncle,theDean.

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