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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ed into thedrawing-room where Miss Crawley was reading the Frenchnovel, and had given that old lady the astounding intelligencethat Sir Pitt was on his knees, proposing to Miss Sharp. Andif you calculate the time for the above dialogue to take place—the time for Briggs and Firkin to fly to the drawing-room—the time for Miss Crawley to be astonished, and to dropher volume of Pigault le Brun—and the time for her tocome down-stairs—you will see how exactly accurate this his-tory is, and how Miss Crawley must have appeared at the ve^yinstant when Rebecca had assumed the attitude of humility. It is the lady on the ground, and not the gentleman.■Miss Crawley said, with a look and voice of great scorn* They told me X\\2Xyou were on your knees. Sir Pitt ; do kneelonce more, and let me see this pretty couple. I have thanked Sir Pitt Crawley, maam, Rebecca said,rising, and have told him that—that I never can becomeLady Crawley. * Refused him I Miss Crawley said, more bewildered than
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REBECCAS HUSBAND APPEARS. 159 ever. Briggs and Firkin at the door opened the eyes ofastonishment and the lips of wonder. Yes—refused, Rebecca continued, with a sad, tearfulvoice.

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