How successful he was in pursuing her
claim, the reader has already learnt.
Dandy Mick was rewarded for all the dangers he had encountered
in the service of Sybil, and what he conceived was the
vindication of popular rights. Lord Marney established him in
business, and Mick took Devilsdust for a partner. Devilsdust
having thus obtained a position in society and become a
capitalist, thought it but a due homage to the social
decencies to assume a decorous appellation, and he called
himself by the name of the town where he was born. The firm
of Radley, Mowbray, and Co., is a rising one; and will
probably furnish in time a crop of members of Parliament and
Peers of the realm. Devilsdust married Caroline, and Mrs
Mowbray became a great favorite. She was always perhaps a
little too fond of junketting but she had a sweet temper and a
gay spirit, and sustained her husband in the agonies of a
great speculation, or the despair of glutted markets. Julia
became Mrs Radley, and was much esteemed: no one could behave
better. She was more orderly than Caroline, and exactly
suited Mick, who wanted a person near him of decision and
method. As for Harriet, she is not yet married. Though
pretty and clever, she is selfish and a screw.
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