...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than churchyard epitaphs; yet, as it sometimes hap- pens that a person departs t... ...k and hide itself. I 111 Thackeray know the Misses Osborne were excellent critics of a Cash- mere shawl, or a pink satin slip; and when Miss Turner h... ...es and towers and plantations of flowers and shrubs, under which the Roman Catholic dead repose. It seemed a humiliation to old Osborne to think that ... ...d her charmed everybody who wit- nessed his behaviour, caused the severest critics to admit how perfect a gentleman he was, and to own that his Lordsh... ...e, or otherwise, Mr. Peel’s late extraordinary tergiversation on the fatal Catholic Relief Bill, sat dumb amongst the ladies in the grand drawing-room...

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