Identifier: vanityfair01thac (find matches)
Title: Vanity fair
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Fiske, Minnie Maddern, Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 British Female friendship Social classes Married women
Publisher: New York and Boston, H. M. Caldwell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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leys departure that the landlord of the hotel whichthey occupied during their residence at Paris found out the losseswhich he had sustained—not until Madame Marabou, the milliner,made repeated visits with her little bill for articles supplied toMadame Crawley, not until Monsieur Didelot, from Boule dOr inthe Palais Royal, had asked half a dozen times whether cettecharmante miladi who had bought watches and bracelets of himwas de reioitr. It is a fact that even the poor gardeners wife,who had nursed madames child, was never paid after the first sixmonths for that supply of the milk of human kindness with whichshe had furnished the lusty and healthy little Rawdon. No, noteven the nurse was paid—the Crawleys were in too great a hurryto remember their trifling debt to her. As for the landlord of thehotel, his curses against the English nation were violent for therest of his natural life. He asked all travelers whether theyknew a certain Colonel Lor Crawley—avec sa femme—une petite
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HOW TO LIVE WELL ON NOTHING A YEAR. 407 dame^ trh spiritiielle. ^^ Ah, Monsieur P^ he would add, ^- ilsm^onlaffreusement voleJ^ It was melancholy to hear his accents as hespoke of that catastrophe. Rebeccas object in her journey to London was to effecta kind of compromise with her husbands numerous creditors, andby offering them a dividend of ninepence or a shilling in thepound, to secure a return for him into his own country. It doesnot become us to trace the steps which she took in the conduct ofthis most difficult negotiation, but, having shown them to theirsatisfaction that the sum which she was empowered to offer wasall her husbands available capital, and having convinced themthat Colonel Crawley would prefer a perpetual retirement on theContinent to a residence in this country with his debts unsettled—having proved to them that there was no possibility of moneyaccruing to him from other quarters, and no earthly chance oftheir getting a larger dividend than that which she was e

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