Vanity fair (1900) (14761597741)

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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Tiess and blundering, blushing timidity hadgiven way to a more candid and courageous self-assertion of hisworth. I dont care about owning it, Waterloo Sedley wouldsay to his friends, I am a dressy man. And though rather un-easy if the ladies looked at him at the Government House balls,and though he blushed and turned away alarmed under theirglances, it was chiefly from a dread lest they should make love to THE OLD PIANO. 657 liim that he avoided them, being averse to marriage altogether.But there was no such swell in Calcutta as Waterloo Sedley, Ihave heard say; and he had the handsomest turn-out, gave the bestbachelor dinners, and had the finest plate in the whole place. To make these vvaistcoats for a man cf his size and dignity tookat least a day, part of which he employed in hiring a servant towait upon him and his native, and in instructing the agent whocleared his baggage, his boxes, his books, which he never read;
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his chests of mangoes, chutney, and currie powders; his shawls forpresents to people whom he didnt know as yet; and the rest ofhis Persicos apparatus. At length he drove leisurely to London on the third day, and inthe new waistcoat; the native with chattering teeth, shuddering in42 658 VANITY FAIR. a shawl on the box by the side of the new European servant; JosjDuffing his pipe at intervals within, and looking so majestic, thatthe little boys cried Hooray, and many people thought he must bea governor-general. He, I promise, did not decline the obsequiousinvitation of the landlords to alight and refresh himself in the neatcountry towns. Having partaken of a copious breakfast, with fish,and rice, and hard eggs, at Southampton, he had so far rallied atWinchester as to think a glass of sherry necessary. At Alton hestepped out of the carriage at his servants request, and imbibedsome of the ale for which the place is famous. At Farnham hestopped to view the Bishops Castle, and to partake of