Vanity fair (1900) (14578130508)

Identifier: vanityfair01thac (find matches)
Title: Vanity fair
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Fiske, Minnie Maddern, Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 British Female friendship Social classes Married women
Publisher: New York and Boston, H. M. Caldwell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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missionary ; but, for common reading, he had brought a stock of novels and plays which he lent to the rest of the ship, and rendered himself agreeable to all by his kindness and condescension. Many and many a night as the ship was cutting through the roaring, dark sea, the moon and stars shining overhead, and the bell singing out the watch, Mr. Sedley and the major would sit on the quarter-deck of the vessel talking about home, as the major smoked his cheroot, and the civilian puffed at the hookah which his servant prepared for him. In these conversations it was wonderful with what perseverance and ingenuity Major Dobbin would manage to bring the talk round 640 VANITY FAIR. to the subject of Amelia and her little boy. Jos, a little testy about his father's misfortunes, and unceremonious applications to him, was soothed down by the major, who pointed out the eiders ill fortunes and old age. He would not perhaps like to live with the old couple, whose ways and hours might not agree with those of 2
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Image: on board the Ramchunder East Indiaman, Captain Bragg, fictional ship created by William Makepeace Thackeray.
- younger man, accustomed to different society (Jos bowed at this compliment) ; but the major pointed out how advantageous it would be for Jos Sedley to have a house of his own in London, and not a mere bachelor's establishment as before ; how his sister Amelia would be the very person to preside over it; how elegant, how EOTHEN. 641 gentle she was, and of what refined good manners. He recounted stories of the success which Mrs. George Osborne had had in former days at Brussels, and in London, where she was much admired by people of very great fashion ; and he then hinted how becoming it would be for Jos to send Georgy to a good school and make a man of him ; for his mother and her parents would be sure to spoil him. In a word, this artful major made the civilian promise to take charge of Amelia and her unprotected child. He did not know as yet what events had happened in the little Sedley family; and how death had removed the mother, and riches had carried off George from Amelia. But the fact is, tha