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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER III
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"They are real Indian, I assure you," said he.

"Sambo, give Miss Sharp some water." The paternal laugh was echoed by Joseph, who thought the joke capital.
The ladies only smiled a little.

They thought poor Rebecca suffered too much.

She would have liked to choke old Sedley, but she swallowed her mortification as well as she had the abominable curry before it, and as soon as she could speak, said, with a comical, good-humoured air, "I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights.

Do you put cayenne into your cream-tarts in India, sir ?" Old Sedley began to laugh, and thought Rebecca was a good-humoured girl.


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