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and fidelity; his never-ceasing obedience; his good humour;
his bravery and courage. Very likely she cried, for she was
particularly lively, and had put on a little extra rouge, when
she came down to dinner.
She rouged regularly now; and—and her maid got Co-
gnac for her besides that which was charged in the hotel
bill.
Perhaps the insults of the men were not, however, so in-
tolerable to her as the sympathy of certain women. Mrs.
Crackenbury and Mrs. Washington White passed through
Boulogne on their way to Switzerland. The party were pro-
tected by Colonel Horner, young Beaumoris, and of course
old Crackenbury, and Mrs. White’s little girl. THEY did
not avoid her. They giggled, cackled, tattled, condoled, con-
soled, and patronized her until they drove her almost wild
with rage. To be patronized by THEM! she thought, as they
went away simpering after kissing her. And she heard Beau-
moris’s laugh ringing on the stair and knew quite well how
to interpret his hilarity.
It was after this visit that Becky, who had paid her weekly
bills, Becky who had made herself agreeable to everybody
in the house, who smiled at the landlady, called the wait-
ers ‘monsieur,’ and paid the chambermaids in politeness
and apologies, what far more than compensated for a little
niggardliness in point of money (of which Becky never was
free), that Becky, we say, received a notice to quit from the
landlord, who had been told by some one that she was quite
an unfit person to have at his hotel, where English ladies
would not sit down with her. And she was forced to fly into

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