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Chapter XXXVIII

A Family in a Very

Small Way

We must suppose little George Osborne has ridden from
Knightsbridge towards Fulham, and will stop and make in-
quiries at that village regarding some friends whom we have
left there. How is Mrs. Amelia after the storm of Waterloo?
Is she living and thriving? What has come of Major Dobbin,
whose cab was always hankering about her premises? And
is there any news of the Collector of Boggley Wollah? The
facts concerning the latter are briefly these:
Our worthy fat friend Joseph Sedley returned to India
not long after his escape from Brussels. Either his furlough
was up, or he dreaded to meet any witnesses of his Water-
loo flight. However it might be, he went back to his duties
in Bengal very soon after Napoleon had taken up his resi-
dence at St. Helena, where Jos saw the ex-Emperor. To hear
Mr. Sedley talk on board ship you would have supposed that
it was not the first time he and the Corsican had met, and
that the civilian had bearded the French General at Mount
St. John. He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous

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