The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-28

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on his mercenary, low-bred father, de-
spised him, and when the elder Os-
borne forbade George to marry our
little Amelia, the young man broke
over the traces and married her out Of
hand. The marriage was egged on and
managed by the faithful Dobbin: and,
radiant in her straw bonnet with pink
ribbons and a white lace veil, little
Emmy went off with her husband to
Brighton for the honeymoon.
Here they fell in with the Raw
dan Crawleys. Becky. mistress of a
fine establishment, and surrounded by
respectful admirers, was SO adroit at
wheedling tradesmen and standing off
creditors, that she made it possible
for them to maintain a fine social
position on nothing year.
Soon after this, among the brilliant
train of camp followers that hung a.
round the Duke of Wellington's army,
our friends were all in Brussels.
George, now desperately infatuated
with Becky, and neglecting his six
weeks wife shamefully, slipped note
in bouquet at ball, begging Becky
to elope with him. But before the note
was answered came the call to arms,
and Lieutenant Osborne, forgetting all
love and intrigue, kissed his Amelia
and marched away-marched, alas, to
his death on the field of Waterloo.
Colonel Rawdon Crawley. promoted
for gallantry, returned in triumph, and
he and his wife passed the winter Of
1915 in Paris in much splendor and
gaiety. Becky's salon become famous,
and great people hobnobbed there.
Colonel Crawley's dexterity at cards
and billiards became so marked that
he constantly won from his guests
and under Becky's tutelage he became
a clever and successful gambler, and
thus aided in their fortune Of moth
ing year.
Amelia, now the widow Osborne,
and with a small son, Gregory, was in
sad penury; her father-in-law refusing
| to see her at all, and her own father
! and mother dependent upon her.
| Becky, too, was the mother Of son,
but she cared nothing for her child.
Nor for her husband; indeed, she SO
! tar forgot her wifely duty as to be
guilty of an intrigue with the rich
old Lord Stevne. Colonel Crawley
discovered this, thrashed the noble.
man and left his wife. Then, Becky,
; following her own devious ways, be-
came an undisguised adventures and
neglected to care for her reputation.
She bobbed about from one city to
| another; now bounded by creditors;
, now cared for by some rich admirer.
| At last, when poor Becky had fallen
very low in funds and in repute, she
was found by Joseph Sedley and his
sister Amelia. The old acquaintance
was renewed, and gentle, generous
! Amelia took her one-time bosom friend
into her heart and home. Major Dob
bin strongly disapproved, and de-
nounced Becky for what she was in
| her very presence. Amelia resented
this, and Dobbin then begged Amelia,
once again, to marry him-a plea he
| had often before made. On her refus-
al, Dobbin went off vowing never to
return, leaving Amelia alone with her
fealty to her dead George. Whereby,
Becky, learning the state Of things,
told Amelia of Georges note to her,
/ asking her to elope with him, and
contrasting the faithless George most
unfavorably with the patient and long
suffering Dobbin. So Amelia recalled
! Dobbin, married him, and they lived
| happy ever after.
Mrs. Rawdon Crawley then attached
herself to Joseph Sedley, though not
by any legal bonds. He was her ut
ter slave, and insured his life heavily
/, for her benefit-and benefit she did,
for he died soon after.
| Rawdon Crawley died, too. and the
son Rawdon refused ever to see his
mother again.
Rebecca lived at Bath or Chelten-
ham, where some excellent people
considered her most injured woman.
She devoted her life to works of piety
and charity, and thopgh when she
met Amelia and hsx fhHspand once,
cast down her 49, demurely and
smiled.
Vanitas vanitatumi Which of US is
happy in this worldr Let US shut up
the boz and tlte A1uppets-our play
is played oae
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