[Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookVanity Fair CHAPTER XIV 24/44
She liked natural manners--a little timidity only set them off.
She liked pretty faces near her; as she liked pretty pictures and nice china.
She talked of Amelia with rapture half a dozen times that day.
She mentioned her to Rawdon Crawley, who came dutifully to partake of his aunt's chicken. Of course, on this Rebecca instantly stated that Amelia was engaged to be married--to a Lieutenant Osborne--a very old flame. "Is he a man in a line-regiment ?" Captain Crawley asked, remembering after an effort, as became a guardsman, the number of the regiment, the -- th. Rebecca thought that was the regiment.
"The Captain's name," she said, "was Captain Dobbin." "A lanky gawky fellow," said Crawley, "tumbles over everybody.
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