He would rather give a present to himself than to the girl who loved him.

Nevertheless, when her father is ruined he marries her, and he fights bravely at Waterloo, and is killed.

"No more firing was heard at Brussels.

The pursuit rolled miles away.

Darkness came down on the field and the city,--and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." Then follows the long courtship of Dobbin, the true hero,--he who has been the friend of George since their old school-days; who has lived with him and served him, and has also loved Amelia.