What need to particularize? If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
Old Sedley had kept his own sad counsel.
Everything seemed to go on as usual in the quiet, opulent house; the good-natured mistress pursuing, quite unsuspiciously, her bustling idleness, and daily easy avocations; the daughter absorbed still in one selfish, tender thought, and quite regardless of all the world besides, when that final crash came, under which the worthy family fell.
One night Mrs.
Sedley was writing cards for a party; the Osbornes had given one, and she must not be behindhand; John Sedley, who had come home very late from the City, sate silent at the chimney side, while his wife was prattling to him; Emmy had gone up to her room ailing and low-spirited.
She's not happy," the mother went on.
George Osborne neglects her.
I've no patience with the airs of those people.
The girls have not been in the house these three weeks; and George has been twice in town without coming.
Edward Dale saw him at the Opera.
Edward would marry her I'm sure: and there's Captain Dobbin who, I think, would--only I hate all army men.
Such a dandy as George has become.
With his military airs, indeed! We must show some folks that we're as good as they.
