"What a gawky it was! And his sisters are not much more graceful.

Lady Dobbin was at Highbury last night with three of them.
Such figures! my dears." "The Alderman's very rich, isn't he ?" Osborne said archly.

"Don't you think one of the daughters would be a good spec for me, Ma'am ?" "You foolish creature! Who would take you, I should like to know, with your yellow face ?" "Mine a yellow face?
Stop till you see Dobbin.

Why, he had the yellow fever three times; twice at Nassau, and once at St.Kitts." "Well, well; yours is quite yellow enough for us.

Isn't it, Emmy ?" Mrs.Sedley said: at which speech Miss Amelia only made a smile and a blush; and looking at Mr.George Osborne's pale interesting countenance, and those beautiful black, curling, shining whiskers, which the young gentleman himself regarded with no ordinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty's army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero.
"I don't care about Captain Dobbin's complexion," she said, "or about his awkwardness.