Her husband she likes best,--because he is, or was, her own.

But there is no man so foul, so wicked, so unattractive, but that she can fawn over him for money and jewels.

There are women to whom nothing is nasty, either in person, language, scenes, actions, or principle,--and Becky is one of them; and yet she is herself attractive.

A most wonderful sketch, for the perpetration of which all Thackeray's power of combined indignation and humour was necessary! The story of Amelia and her two lovers, George Osborne and Captain, or as he came afterwards to be, Major, and Colonel Dobbin, is less interesting, simply because goodness and eulogy are less exciting than wickedness and censure.

Amelia is a true, honest-hearted, thoroughly English young woman, who loves her love because he is grand,--to her eyes,--and loving him, loves him with all her heart.