[Thackeray by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link book
Thackeray

CHAPTER III
21/39

So Becky is installed in the house in London, having been taken away abruptly from her pupils, to the great dismay of the old lady's long-established resident companion.

They all fall in love with her; she makes herself so charming, she is so clever; she can even, by help of a little care in dressing, become so picturesque! As all this goes on, the reader feels what a great personage is Miss Rebecca Sharp.
Lady Crawley dies down in the country, while Becky is still staying with his sister, who will not part with her.

Sir Pitt at once rushes up to town, before the funeral, looking for consolation where only he can find it.

Becky brings him down word from his sister's room that the old lady is too ill to see him.
"So much the better," Sir Pitt answered; "I want to see you, Miss Sharp.

I want you back at Queen's Crawley, miss," the baronet said.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books