Vanity Fair - 22
John Sedley sprang up out of his chair to meet his wife, who ran to him. He seized her in his arms, and said with a hasty voice, "We're ruined, Mary. We've got the world to begin over again, dear. It's best that you should know all, and at once." As he spoke, he trembled in every limb, and almost fell. He thought the news would have overpowered his wife—his wife, to whom he had never said a hard word. But it was he that was the most moved, sudden as the shock was to her. When he sank back into his seat, it was the wife that took the office of consoler. She took his trembling hand, and kissed it, and put it round her neck: she called him her John—her dear John—her old man—her kind old man; she poured out a hundred words of incoherent love and tenderness; her faithful voice and simple caresses wrought this sad heart up to an inexpressible delight and anguish, and cheered and solaced his over-burdened soul.
Only once in the course of the long night as they sate together, and poor Sedley opened his pent-up soul, and told the story of his losses and embarrassments—the treason of some of his oldest friends, the manly kindness of some, from whom he never could have expected it—in a general confession—only once did the faithful wife give way to emotion.
"My God, my God, it will break Emmy's heart," she said.
The father had forgotten the poor girl. She was lying, awake and unhappy, overhead. In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. To how many people can any one tell all? Who will be open where there is no sympathy, or has call to speak to those who never can understand? Our gentle Amelia was thus solitary. She had no confidante, so to speak, ever since she had anything to confide. She could not tell the old mother her doubts and cares; the would-be sisters seemed every day more strange to her. And she had misgivings and fears which she dared not acknowledge to herself, though she was always secretly brooding over them.
Her heart tried to persist in asserting that George Osborne was worthy and faithful to her, though she knew otherwise. How many a thing had she said, and got no echo from him. How many suspicions of selfishness and indifference had she to encounter and obstinately overcome. To whom could the poor little martyr tell these daily struggles and tortures? Her hero himself only half understood her. She did not dare to own that the man she loved was her inferior; or to feel that she had given her heart away too soon. Given once, the pure bashful maiden was too modest, too tender, too trustful, too weak, too much woman to recall it. We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks. But their souls must be seen by only one man, and they obey not unwillingly, and consent to remain at home as our slaves—ministering to us and doing drudgery for us.
So imprisoned and tortured was this gentle little heart, when in the month of March, Anno Domini 1815, Napoleon landed at Cannes, and Louis XVIII fled, and all Europe was in alarm, and the funds fell, and old John Sedley was ruined.
We are not going to follow the worthy old stockbroker through those last pangs and agonies of ruin through which he passed before his commercial demise befell. They declared him at the Stock Exchange; he was absent from his house of business: his bills were protested: his act of bankruptcy formal. The house and furniture of Russell Square were seized and sold up, and he and his family were thrust away, as we have seen, to hide their heads where they might.
John Sedley had not the heart to review the domestic establishment who have appeared now and anon in our pages and of whom he was now forced by poverty to take leave. The wages of those worthy people were discharged with that punctuality which men frequently show who only owe in great sums—they were sorry to leave good places—but they did not break their hearts at parting from their adored master and mistress. Amelia's maid was profuse in condolences, but went off quite resigned to better herself in a genteeler quarter of the town. Black Sambo, with the infatuation of his profession, determined on setting up a public-house. Honest old Mrs. Blenkinsop indeed, who had seen the birth of Jos and Amelia, and the wooing of John Sedley and his wife, was for staying by them without wages, having amassed a considerable sum in their service: and she accompanied the fallen people into their new and humble place of refuge, where she tended them and grumbled against them for a while.
Of all Sedley's opponents in his debates with his creditors which now ensued, and harassed the feelings of the humiliated old gentleman so severely, that in six weeks he oldened more than he had done for fifteen years before—the most determined and obstinate seemed to be John Osborne, his old friend and neighbour—John Osborne, whom he had set up in life—who was under a hundred obligations to him—and whose son was to marry Sedley's daughter. Any one of these circumstances would account for the bitterness of Osborne's opposition.
When one man has been under very remarkable obligations to another, with whom he subsequently quarrels, a common sense of decency, as it were, makes of the former a much severer enemy than a mere stranger would be. To account for your own hard-heartedness and ingratitude in such a case, you are bound to prove the other party's crime. It is not that you are selfish, brutal, and angry at the failure of a speculation—no, no—it is that your partner has led you into it by the basest treachery and with the most sinister motives. From a mere sense of consistency, a persecutor is bound to show that the fallen man is a villain—otherwise he, the persecutor, is a wretch himself.
And as a general rule, which may make all creditors who are inclined to be severe pretty comfortable in their minds, no men embarrassed are altogether honest, very likely. They conceal something; they exaggerate chances of good luck; hide away the real state of affairs; say that things are flourishing when they are hopeless, keep a smiling face (a dreary smile it is) upon the verge of bankruptcy—are ready to lay hold of any pretext for delay or of any money, so as to stave off the inevitable ruin a few days longer. "Down with such dishonesty," says the creditor in triumph, and reviles his sinking enemy. "You fool, why do you catch at a straw?" calm good sense says to the man that is drowning. "You villain, why do you shrink from plunging into the irretrievable Gazette?" says prosperity to the poor devil battling in that black gulf. Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. Finally, he had to break off the match between Sedley's daughter and his son; and as it had gone very far indeed, and as the poor girl's happiness and perhaps character were compromised, it was necessary to show the strongest reasons for the rupture, and for John Osborne to prove John Sedley to be a very bad character indeed.
At the meetings of creditors, then, he comported himself with a savageness and scorn towards Sedley, which almost succeeded in breaking the heart of that ruined bankrupt man. On George's intercourse with Amelia he put an instant veto—menacing the youth with maledictions if he broke his commands, and vilipending the poor innocent girl as the basest and most artful of vixens. One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
When the great crash came—the announcement of ruin, and the departure from Russell Square, and the declaration that all was over between her and George—all over between her and love, her and happiness, her and faith in the world—a brutal letter from John Osborne told her in a few curt lines that her father's conduct had been of such a nature that all engagements between the families were at an end—when the final award came, it did not shock her so much as her parents, as her mother rather expected (for John Sedley himself was entirely prostrate in the ruins of his own affairs and shattered honour). Amelia took the news very palely and calmly. It was only the confirmation of the dark presages which had long gone before. It was the mere reading of the sentence—of the crime she had long ago been guilty—the crime of loving wrongly, too violently, against reason. She told no more of her thoughts now than she had before. She seemed scarcely more unhappy now when convinced all hope was over, than before when she felt but dared not confess that it was gone. So she changed from the large house to the small one without any mark or difference; remained in her little room for the most part; pined silently; and died away day by day. I do not mean to say that all females are so. My dear Miss Bullock, I do not think your heart would break in this way. You are a strong-minded young woman with proper principles. I do not venture to say that mine would; it has suffered, and, it must be confessed, survived. But there are some souls thus gently constituted, thus frail, and delicate, and tender.
Whenever old John Sedley thought of the affair between George and Amelia, or alluded to it, it was with bitterness almost as great as Mr. Osborne himself had shown. He cursed Osborne and his family as heartless, wicked, and ungrateful. No power on earth, he swore, would induce him to marry his daughter to the son of such a villain, and he ordered Emmy to banish George from her mind, and to return all the presents and letters which she had ever had from him.
She promised acquiescence, and tried to obey. She put up the two or three trinkets: and, as for the letters, she drew them out of the place where she kept them; and read them over—as if she did not know them by heart already: but she could not part with them. That effort was too much for her; she placed them back in her bosom again—as you have seen a woman nurse a child that is dead. Young Amelia felt that she would die or lose her senses outright, if torn away from this last consolation. How she used to blush and lighten up when those letters came! How she used to trip away with a beating heart, so that she might read unseen! If they were cold, yet how perversely this fond little soul interpreted them into warmth. If they were short or selfish, what excuses she found for the writer!
It was over these few worthless papers that she brooded and brooded. She lived in her past life—every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how—these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. And the business of her life, was—to watch the corpse of Love.
To death she looked with inexpressible longing. Then, she thought, I shall always be able to follow him. I am not praising her conduct or setting her up as a model for Miss Bullock to imitate. Miss B. knows how to regulate her feelings better than this poor little creature. Miss B. would never have committed herself as that imprudent Amelia had done; pledged her love irretrievably; confessed her heart away, and got back nothing—only a brittle promise which was snapt and worthless in a moment. A long engagement is a partnership which one party is free to keep or to break, but which involves all the capital of the other.
Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.
If Amelia could have heard the comments regarding her which were made in the circle from which her father's ruin had just driven her, she would have seen what her own crimes were, and how entirely her character was jeopardised. Such criminal imprudence Mrs. Smith never knew of; such horrid familiarities Mrs. Brown had always condemned, and the end might be a warning to HER daughters. "Captain Osborne, of course, could not marry a bankrupt's daughter," the Misses Dobbin said. "It was quite enough to have been swindled by the father. As for that little Amelia, her folly had really passed all—"
"All what?" Captain Dobbin roared out. "Haven't they been engaged ever since they were children? Wasn't it as good as a marriage? Dare any soul on earth breathe a word against the sweetest, the purest, the tenderest, the most angelical of young women?"
"La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with US. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said. "We've said nothing against Miss Sedley: but that her conduct throughout was MOST IMPRUDENT, not to call it by any worse name; and that her parents are people who certainly merit their misfortunes."
"Hadn't you better, now that Miss Sedley is free, propose for her yourself, William?" Miss Ann asked sarcastically. "It would be a most eligible family connection. He! he!"
"I marry her!" Dobbin said, blushing very much, and talking quick. "If you are so ready, young ladies, to chop and change, do you suppose that she is? Laugh and sneer at that angel. She can't hear it; and she's miserable and unfortunate, and deserves to be laughed at. Go on joking, Ann. You're the wit of the family, and the others like to hear it."
"I must tell you again we're not in a barrack, William," Miss Ann remarked.
"In a barrack, by Jove—I wish anybody in a barrack would say what you do," cried out this uproused British lion. "I should like to hear a man breathe a word against her, by Jupiter. But men don't talk in this way, Ann: it's only women, who get together and hiss, and shriek, and cackle. There, get away—don't begin to cry. I only said you were a couple of geese," Will Dobbin said, perceiving Miss Ann's pink eyes were beginning to moisten as usual. "Well, you're not geese, you're swans—anything you like, only do, do leave Miss Sedley alone."
Anything like William's infatuation about that silly little flirting, ogling thing was never known, the mamma and sisters agreed together in thinking: and they trembled lest, her engagement being off with Osborne, she should take up immediately her other admirer and Captain. In which forebodings these worthy young women no doubt judged according to the best of their experience; or rather (for as yet they had had no opportunities of marrying or of jilting) according to their own notions of right and wrong.
"It is a mercy, Mamma, that the regiment is ordered abroad," the girls said. "THIS danger, at any rate, is spared our brother."
Such, indeed, was the fact; and so it is that the French Emperor comes in to perform a part in this domestic comedy of Vanity Fair which we are now playing, and which would never have been enacted without the intervention of this august mute personage. It was he that ruined the Bourbons and Mr. John Sedley. It was he whose arrival in his capital called up all France in arms to defend him there; and all Europe to oust him. While the French nation and army were swearing fidelity round the eagles in the Champ de Mars, four mighty European hosts were getting in motion for the great chasse a l'aigle; and one of these was a British army, of which two heroes of ours, Captain Dobbin and Captain Osborne, formed a portion.
The news of Napoleon's escape and landing was received by the gallant —th with a fiery delight and enthusiasm, which everybody can understand who knows that famous corps. From the colonel to the smallest drummer in the regiment, all were filled with hope and ambition and patriotic fury; and thanked the French Emperor as for a personal kindness in coming to disturb the peace of Europe. Now was the time the —th had so long panted for, to show their comrades in arms that they could fight as well as the Peninsular veterans, and that all the pluck and valour of the —th had not been killed by the West Indies and the yellow fever. Stubble and Spooney looked to get their companies without purchase. Before the end of the campaign (which she resolved to share), Mrs. Major O'Dowd hoped to write herself Mrs. Colonel O'Dowd, C.B. Our two friends (Dobbin and Osborne) were quite as much excited as the rest: and each in his way—Mr. Dobbin very quietly, Mr. Osborne very loudly and energetically—was bent upon doing his duty, and gaining his share of honour and distinction.
The agitation thrilling through the country and army in consequence of this news was so great, that private matters were little heeded: and hence probably George Osborne, just gazetted to his company, busy with preparations for the march, which must come inevitably, and panting for further promotion—was not so much affected by other incidents which would have interested him at a more quiet period. He was not, it must be confessed, very much cast down by good old Mr. Sedley's catastrophe. He tried his new uniform, which became him very handsomely, on the day when the first meeting of the creditors of the unfortunate gentleman took place. His father told him of the wicked, rascally, shameful conduct of the bankrupt, reminded him of what he had said about Amelia, and that their connection was broken off for ever; and gave him that evening a good sum of money to pay for the new clothes and epaulets in which he looked so well. Money was always useful to this free-handed young fellow, and he took it without many words. The bills were up in the Sedley house, where he had passed so many, many happy hours. He could see them as he walked from home that night (to the Old Slaughters', where he put up when in town) shining white in the moon. That comfortable home was shut, then, upon Amelia and her parents: where had they taken refuge? The thought of their ruin affected him not a little. He was very melancholy that night in the coffee-room at the Slaughters'; and drank a good deal, as his comrades remarked there.
Dobbin came in presently, cautioned him about the drink, which he only took, he said, because he was deuced low; but when his friend began to put to him clumsy inquiries, and asked him for news in a significant manner, Osborne declined entering into conversation with him, avowing, however, that he was devilish disturbed and unhappy.
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- Vanity Fair - 54Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3359Total number of unique words is 114453.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 55Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3343Total number of unique words is 114753.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 56Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3320Total number of unique words is 111855.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 57Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3230Total number of unique words is 109154.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 58Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2917Total number of unique words is 98753.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 59Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3404Total number of unique words is 116550.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 60Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3546Total number of unique words is 112054.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 61Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3464Total number of unique words is 120350.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words67.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words74.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 62Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3476Total number of unique words is 118551.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 63Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3427Total number of unique words is 109755.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 64Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3344Total number of unique words is 114955.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 65Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3365Total number of unique words is 108756.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 66Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3326Total number of unique words is 120448.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words66.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words74.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 67Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3207Total number of unique words is 116947.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words64.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words72.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 68Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3450Total number of unique words is 103055.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 69Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3489Total number of unique words is 111556.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 70Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3539Total number of unique words is 109156.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 71Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3248Total number of unique words is 103158.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 72Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3445Total number of unique words is 103958.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 73Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3438Total number of unique words is 113552.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 74Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3103Total number of unique words is 106251.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 75Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3303Total number of unique words is 111653.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 76Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3377Total number of unique words is 107858.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 77Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3399Total number of unique words is 115153.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 78Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3437Total number of unique words is 106358.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 79Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3401Total number of unique words is 116755.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 80Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3328Total number of unique words is 103058.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 81Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3146Total number of unique words is 118249.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words65.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words72.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 82Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3361Total number of unique words is 115952.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 83Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3322Total number of unique words is 114849.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words66.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words73.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 84Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3347Total number of unique words is 115654.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 85Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3282Total number of unique words is 115649.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words64.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words72.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 86Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3380Total number of unique words is 116453.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 87Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3198Total number of unique words is 106857.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 88Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3371Total number of unique words is 100761.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words85.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 89Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3197Total number of unique words is 108955.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 90Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3382Total number of unique words is 106958.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 91Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 1325Total number of unique words is 55263.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words