Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

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Harper, 1849 - 332 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 239 - Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Sayfa 73 - I'll make you a zettlement. I'll do everything reglar. Look year!" and the old man fell down on his knees and leered at her like a satyr. Rebecca started back a picture of consternation. In the course of this history we have never seen her lose her presence of mind ; but she did now, and wept some of the most genuine tears that ever fell from her eyes. "Oh, Sir Pitt!" she said. "Oh, sir— I— I'm married already.
Sayfa 13 - 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...
Sayfa 46 - Ah, gracious powers ! I wish you would send me an old aunt — a maiden aunt — an aunt with a lozenge on her carriage, and a front of light coffee-coloured hair — how my children should work workbags for her, and my Julia and I would make her comfortable ! Sweet — sweet vision ! Foolish — foolish dream...
Sayfa 60 - ... he has just had with Captain Dobbin, has possibly come to certain conclusions regarding the character of Mr. Osborne. Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a lovetransaction : the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
Sayfa 9 - Those virtues which characterize the young English gentlewoman, those accomplishments which become her birth and station, will not be found wanting in the amiable Miss Sedley, whose industry and obedience have endeared her to her instructors, and whose delightful sweetness of temper has charmed her aged and her youthful companions. ' In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of embroidery and needlework, she will be found to have realized her friends
Sayfa 5 - An episode of humor or kindness touches and amuses him here and there: — a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall ; a pretty girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing ; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the...
Sayfa 229 - ... honest women. The lord chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. And as dubious goods or letters are passed through an oven at quarantine, sprinkled with aromatic vinegar, and then pronounced clean — many a lady whose reputation would be doubtful otherwise and liable to give infection, passes through the wholesome ordeal of the royal presence, and issues from it free from all taint.
Sayfa 11 - ... would cry over a dead canary-bird ; or over a mouse, that the cat haply had seized upon ; or over the end of a novel, •were it ever so stupid ; and as for saying an unkind word to her, were any persons hard-hearted enough to do so — why, so much the worse for them.

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