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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cas relief ; for it was evident that her secret wasunrevealed to Miss Crawley, and she had the advantage of abrief reprieve. Putting her handkerchief to her eyes, and nodding awayhonest Briggs, who would have followed her up-stairs, shewent up to her apartment ; while Briggs and Miss Craw-ley, in a high state of excitement, remained to discuss thestrange event, and Firkin, not less moved, dived down into thekitchen regions, and talked of it with all the male and femalecompany there. And so impressed was Mrs. Firkin with thenews that she thought proper to write off by that very nightspost, with her humble duty to Mrs. Bute Crawley and thefamily at the Rectory, and Sir Pitt had been and proposed forto marry Miss Sharp, wherein she has refused him, to thewonder of all. The two ladies in the dining-room (where worthy MissBriggs was delighted to be admitted once more to a confi-dential conversation with her patroness) wondered to theirhearts content at Sir Pitts offer and Rebeccas refusal^
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REBECCAS HUSBAND APPEARS. i6i Briggs very acutely suggesting that there must have beensome obstacle in the shape of a previous attachment, other-wise no young woman in her senses would ever have refusedso advantageous a proposal. You would have accepted it yourself, wouldnt you,Briggs ? Miss Crawley said, kindly. Would it not be a privilege to be Miss Crawleys sister?Briggs replied, with meek evasion. Well, Becky would have made a good Lady Crawley,after all, Miss Crawley remarked (who was mollified by thegirls refusal, and very liberal and generous, now there wasno call for her sacrifices). She has brains in plenty (muchmore wit in her little finger than you have, my poor dearBriggs, in all your head). Her manners are excellent, now1 have formed her. She is a Montmorency, Briggs, and bloodis something, though I despise it for my part ; and she wouldhave held her own among those pompous, stupid Hampshirepeople much better than that unfortunate ironmongersdaughter. Briggs coincided as

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