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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XII
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"Who could quarrel with him ?" says she, with her eyes filled with tears.

She only came over to--to see her dear friends; they had not met for so long.

And this day she was so perfectly stupid and awkward, that the Misses Osborne and their governess, who stared after her as she went sadly away, wondered more than ever what George could see in poor little Amelia.
Of course they did.

How was she to bare that timid little heart for the inspection of those young ladies with their bold black eyes?
It was best that it should shrink and hide itself.

I know the Misses Osborne were excellent critics of a Cashmere shawl, or a pink satin slip; and when Miss Turner had hers dyed purple, and made into a spencer; and when Miss Pickford had her ermine tippet twisted into a muff and trimmings, I warrant you the changes did not escape the two intelligent young women before mentioned.


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