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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XVII
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Ask Martingale; he was in Spain, aide-de-camp to General Blazes." "He was a very kind old man, Mr.Sedley," Rebecca said; "I'm really sorry he's gone wrong." "O stockbrokers--bankrupts--used to it, you know," Rawdon replied, cutting a fly off the horse's ear.
"I wish we could have afforded some of the plate, Rawdon," the wife continued sentimentally.

"Five-and-twenty guineas was monstrously dear for that little piano.

We chose it at Broadwood's for Amelia, when she came from school.

It only cost five-and-thirty then." "What-d'-ye-call'em--'Osborne,' will cry off now, I suppose, since the family is smashed.

How cut up your pretty little friend will be; hey, Becky ?" "I daresay she'll recover it," Becky said with a smile--and they drove on and talked about something else..


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