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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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painful a task ascould be set to him, yet whenhe had a duty to perform, Captain Dobbin was accustomed togo through it without many words or much hesitation ; andhaving made up his mind completely that if Miss Sedley wasbalked of her husband she would die of the disappointment,he was determined to use all his best endeavors to keep heralive. I forbear to enter into minute particulars of the interviewbetween George and Amelia, when the former was broughtback to the feet (or should we venture to say the arms ?) of hisyoung mistress by the intervention of his friend, honest Will-iam. A much harder heart than Georges would have meltedat the sight of that sweet face so sadly ravaged by grief anddespair, and at the simple, tender accents in which she toldher little broken-hearted story ; but as she did not faint whenher mother, trembling, brought Osborne to her, and as sheonly gave relief to her overcharged grief by laying her headon her lovers shoulder and there weeping for a while the most
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CAPr. DOBBIN ACTS AS MESSENGER OF HYMEN. 209 tender, copious, and refreshing tears, old Mrs. Sedley, too,greatly relieved, thought it was best to leave the young per-sons to themselves, and so quitted Emmy crying over Georgeshand, and kissing it humbly, as if he were her supreme chiefand master, and as if she were quite a guilty and unworthyperson, needing every favor and grace from him. This prostration and sweet, unrepining obedience exqui-sitely touched and flattered George Osborne. He saw a slavebefore him in that simple, yielding, faithful creature, and hissoul within him thrilled secretly somehow at the knowledgeof his power. He would be generous-minded, sultan as hewas, and raise up this kneeling Esther and make a queen ofher ; besides her sadness and beauty touched him as much asher submission, and so he cheered her, and raised her up,and forgave her, so to speak. All her hopes and feelings,which were dying and withering, this her sun having beenremoved from her, bloomed again

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