
other.
    Dobbin told him all, a little more perhaps than all, that had happened on
board the Ramchunder; and exaggerated Jos's benevolent dispositions towards his
father, and resolution to make him comfortable in his old days. The truth is,
that during the voyage the Major had impressed this duty most strongly upon his
fellow-passenger, and extorted promises from him that he would take charge of
his sister and her child. He soothed Jos's irritation with regard to the bills
which the old gentleman had drawn upon him; gave a laughing account of his own
sufferings on the same score, and of the famous consignment of wine with which
the old man had favoured him; and brought Mr. Jos, who was by no means an
ill-natured person when well pleased and moderately flattered, to a very good
state of feeling regarding his relatives in Europe. And in fine I am ashamed to
say that the Major stretched the truth so far as to tell old Mr. Sedley that it
was mainly a desire to see his parent which brought Jos once more to Europe.
    At his accustomed hour Mr. Sedley began to doze in his chair, and then it
was Amelia's opportunity to commence her conversation, which she did with great
eagerness: it related exclusively to Georgy. She did not talk at all about her
own sufferings at breaking from him - for indeed this worthy woman, though she
was half-killed by the separation from the child, yet thought it was very wicked
in her to repine at losing him - but everything concerning him, his virtues,
talents, and prospects, she poured out. She described his angelic beauty;
narrated a hundred instances of his generosity and greatness of mind whilst
living with her; how a Royal Duchess had stopped and admired him in Kensington
Gardens; how splendidly he was cared for now, and how he had a groom and a pony;
what quickness and cleverness he had; and what a prodigiously well-read and
delightful person the Reverend Lawrence Veal was, George's master. »He knows
everything,« Amelia said. »He has the most delightful parties. You who are so
learned yourself, and have read so much, and are so clever and accomplished -
don't shake your head and say no; He always used to say you were - you will be
charmed with Mr. Veal's parties. The last Tuesday in every month. He says there
is no place in the bar or the senate that Georgy may not aspire to. Look here,«
and she went to the piano-drawer
