The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity fairScribner, 1903 |
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asked Baronet Becky Becky Sharp blushed brother Bullock Bute Crawley Captain Dobbin carriage Chiswick Chopper coach Crawley's cried Cuff daughter dear Miss delightful dine dinner door drawing-room Emmy eyes face father fellow Firkin Frederick Bullock gave George Osborne George's girl good-natured governess hand happy heart Hessian boots honour John Osborne John Sedley Joseph Sedley Jove kind Lady Crawley laughing letter little governess looked mamma marriage married Miss Amelia Miss Briggs Miss Crawley Miss Jemima Miss Osborne Miss Pinkerton Miss Sedley Miss Sharp Miss Swartz Miss Wirt morning mother never night old gentleman old lady Osborne's papa Park Lane piano poor pretty Queen's Crawley Rawdon Crawley regiment Russell Square Sambo Sedley's servants Sir Pitt Crawley sister stairs sure talk thought told took Vanity Fair Vauxhall wife William Dobbin woman young ladies
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Seite 126 - MacWhirter is any relative ? Your wife is perpetually sending her little testimonies of affection, your little girls work endless worsted baskets, cushions, and footstools for her. What a good fire there is in her room when she comes to pay you a visit, although your wife laces her stays without one ! The Louse during her stay assumes a festive, neat, warm, jovial, snug appearance not visible at other seasons.
Seite 32 - Sharp," said Joseph, really interested. " A chili," said Rebecca, gasping. " Oh yes ! " She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served with some. '' How fresh and green they look," she said, and put one into her mouth.
Seite 4 - ... fondest wishes. In geography there is still much to be desired ; and a careful and undeviating use of the backboard, for four hours daily during the next three years, is recommended as necessary to the acquirement of that dignified deportment and carriage, so requisite for every young lady of fashion.
Seite 124 - That blood-red hand* of Sir Pitt Crawley's would be in anybody's pocket except his own ; and it is with grief and pain that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so many ill qualities in a person whose name is in Debreit.
Seite 2 - Sedley's coach, sister,' said Miss Jemima. 'Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat. ' ' Have you completed all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley's departure, Miss Jemima ? ' asked Miss Pinkerton herself, that majestic lady — the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Dr.
Seite 14 - The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
Seite 96 - Come, bear a hand, my fine feller, and Miss will give you some beer," said John, with a horse-laugh, for he was no longer respectful to Miss Sharp, as her connexion with the family '-.IK*..* was broken off, and as she had given nothing to the servants on coming away. The bald-headed man, taking his hands out of his breeches pockets, advanced on this summons, and throwing Miss Sharp's trunk over his shoulder, carried it into the house. " Take this basket and shawl, if you please, and open the door,"...
Seite 16 - ... wrote a manly and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton, recommending the orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse. Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over as an articled pupil...
Seite 279 - Vows, love, promises, confidences, gratitude, how queerly they read after a while ! There ought to be a law in Vanity Fair ordering the destruction of every written document (except receipted tradesmen's bills) after a certain brief and proper interval. Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries. The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank,...
Seite 194 - ... she lay moaning, and in almost delirious agonies respecting that future world which she quite ignored when she was in good health. Picture to yourself, oh, fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and, ere you be old, learn to love and pray ! Sharp watched this graceless bedside with indomitable patience.