She is not at all indifferent as to her finery, nor, as we see incidentally, to enjoying her suppers at Vauxhall.

She is anxious to be married,--and as soon as possible.

A hero too should be dignified and of a noble presence; a man who, though he may be as poor as Nicholas Nickleby, should nevertheless be beautiful on all occasions, and never deficient in readiness, address, or self-assertion.

_Vanity Fair_ is specially declared by the author to be "a novel without a hero," and therefore we have hardly a right to complain of deficiency of heroic conduct in any of the male characters.

But Captain Dobbin does become the hero, and is deficient.