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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XII
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She thought about him the very first moment on waking; and his was the very last name mentioned in her prayers.

She never had seen a man so beautiful or so clever: such a figure on horseback: such a dancer: such a hero in general.
Talk of the Prince's bow! what was it to George's?
She had seen Mr.
Brummell, whom everybody praised so.

Compare such a person as that to her George! Not amongst all the beaux at the Opera (and there were beaux in those days with actual opera hats) was there any one to equal him.

He was only good enough to be a fairy prince; and oh, what magnanimity to stoop to such a humble Cinderella! Miss Pinkerton would have tried to check this blind devotion very likely, had she been Amelia's confidante; but not with much success, depend upon it.

It is in the nature and instinct of some women.


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