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If she fails us , is n't there what you call the Gazette ? or , stop , when your uncle Bute 's life drops , I have another scheme . The living has always belonged to the younger brother , and why should n't you sell out and go into the Church ? '' The idea of this conversion set Rawdon into roars of laughter : you might have heard the explosion through the hotel at midnight , and the haw-haws of the great dragoon 's voice . General Tufto heard him from his quarters on the first floor above them ; and Rebecca acted the scene with great spirit , and preached Rawdon 's first sermon , to the immense delight of the General at breakfast . But these were mere by-gone days and talk . When the final news arrived that the campaign was opened , and the troops were to march , Rawdon 's gravity became such that Becky rallied him about it in a manner which rather hurt the feelings of the Guardsman .