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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XVIII
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Such criminal imprudence Mrs.Smith never knew of; such horrid familiarities Mrs.Brown had always condemned, and the end might be a warning to HER daughters.

"Captain Osborne, of course, could not marry a bankrupt's daughter," the Misses Dobbin said.
"It was quite enough to have been swindled by the father.

As for that little Amelia, her folly had really passed all--" "All what ?" Captain Dobbin roared out.

"Haven't they been engaged ever since they were children?
Wasn't it as good as a marriage?
Dare any soul on earth breathe a word against the sweetest, the purest, the tenderest, the most angelical of young women ?" "La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with US.

We're not men.


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