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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XVIII
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I do not venture to say that mine would; it has suffered, and, it must be confessed, survived.

But there are some souls thus gently constituted, thus frail, and delicate, and tender.
Whenever old John Sedley thought of the affair between George and Amelia, or alluded to it, it was with bitterness almost as great as Mr.
Osborne himself had shown.

He cursed Osborne and his family as heartless, wicked, and ungrateful.

No power on earth, he swore, would induce him to marry his daughter to the son of such a villain, and he ordered Emmy to banish George from her mind, and to return all the presents and letters which she had ever had from him.
She promised acquiescence, and tried to obey.

She put up the two or three trinkets: and, as for the letters, she drew them out of the place where she kept them; and read them over--as if she did not know them by heart already: but she could not part with them.


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