![]() ![]() Yes, this is Vanity Fair not a moral place certainly nor a merry one, though very noisy. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the lookout, quacks ( other quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Which Contains Births, Marriages, and DeathsĪs the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. ![]() In Which Lord Steyne Shows Himself in a Most Amiable Light In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert In Which the Reader Is Introduced to the Very Best of Company A Roundabout Chapter Between London and Hampshire In Which the Reader Has to Double the Cape In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious About Her In Which Jos Takes Flight, and the War Is Brought to a Close In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister ![]() In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries In Which All the Principal Personages Think Fit to Leave Brighton In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign This online edition was created and published by Global Grey on the 10th March 2023. ![]()
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