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Red Lion Square, and Mr. Moss acting for Mr. Manasseh
of Cursitor Street (chief creditors of the Colonel’s), com-
plimented his lady upon the brilliant way in which she did
business, and declared that there was no professional man
who could beat her.
Rebecca received their congratulations with perfect
modesty; ordered a bottle of sherry and a bread cake to the
little dingy lodgings where she dwelt, while conducting the
business, to treat the enemy’s lawyers: shook hands with
them at parting, in excellent good humour, and returned
straightway to the Continent, to rejoin her husband and son
and acquaint the former with the glad news of his entire lib-
eration. As for the latter, he had been considerably neglected
during his mother’s absence by Mademoiselle Genevieve,
her French maid; for that young woman, contracting an at-
tachment for a soldier in the garrison of Calais, forgot her
charge in the society of this militaire, and little Rawdon
very narrowly escaped drowning on Calais sands at this pe-
riod, where the absent Genevieve had left and lost him.
And so, Colonel and Mrs. Crawley came to London: and
it is at their house in Curzon Street, May Fair, that they re-
ally showed the skill which must be possessed by those who
would live on the resources above named.

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