Identifier: vanityfair01thac (find matches)
Title: Vanity fair
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Fiske, Minnie Maddern, Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 British Female friendship Social classes Married women
Publisher: New York and Boston, H. M. Caldwell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ught, as theywent away simpering after kissing her. And she heard Beaumor-iss laugh ringing on the stair, and knew quite well how to inter-pret his hilarity. It was after this visit that Becky, who had paid her weekly bills,Becky who had made herself agreeable to everybody in the house,who smiled at the landlady, called the waiters monsieur, and paidthe chambermaids in politeness and apologies, w^hat far more thancompensated for a little niggardliness in point of money (of whichBecky never was free), that Becky, we say, received a notice toquit from the landlord, who had been told by some one that shewas quite an unfit person to have at his hotel, where English ladieswould not sit down with her. And she was forced to fly into lodg-ings, of which the dullness and solitude were most wearisome toher. Still she held up, in spite of these rebuffs, and tried to make acharacter for herself, and conquer scandal. She went to churchvery regularly, and sang louder than anybody there. She took up
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A VAGABOND CHAPTER. 719 the cause of the widows of the shipwrecked fishermen, and gavework and drawings for the Quashyboo Alission; she subscribed tothe assembly and wouldnt waltz. In a word she did ever)lhingthat was respectable, and that is why we dwell upon this part ofher career with more fondness than upon subsequent parts of herhistory, which are not so pleasant. She saw people avoiding her, andstill laboriously smiled upon them ; you never could suppose fromher countenance what pangs of humiliation she might be enduringinwardly. Her history was after all a mxystery. Parties were divided abouther. Some people, who took the trouble to busy themselves in thematter, said that she was the criminal; while others vowed thatshe was as innocent as a lamb, and that her odious husband wasin fault. She won over a good many by bursting into tears abouther boy, and exhibiting the most frantic grief when his name wasm.entioned, or she saw anybody like him. She gained good Mrs.Alderneys heart

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