She has made a position for herself in the world of fiction, and is one of our established personages.
I have already said how she left school, throwing the "dixonary" out of the window, like dust from her feet, and was taken to spend a few halcyon weeks with her friend Amelia Sedley, at the Sedley mansion in Russell Square.

There she meets a brother Sedley home from India,--the immortal Jos,--at whom she began to set her hitherto untried cap.

Here we become acquainted both with the Sedley and with the Osborne families, with all their domestic affections and domestic snobbery, and have to confess that the snobbery is stronger than the affection.

As we desire to love Amelia Sedley, we wish that the people around her were less vulgar or less selfish,--especially we wish it in regard to that handsome young fellow, George Osborne, whom she loves with her whole heart.

But with Jos Sedley we are inclined to be content, though he be fat, purse-proud, awkward, a drunkard, and a coward, because we do not want anything better for Becky.