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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XXI
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I said I begged you to remember your son was a gentleman as well as yourself.

I know very well that you give me plenty of money," said George (fingering a bundle of notes which he had got in the morning from Mr.Chopper).

"You tell it me often enough, sir.

There's no fear of my forgetting it." "I wish you'd remember other things as well, sir," the sire answered.
"I wish you'd remember that in this house--so long as you choose to HONOUR it with your COMPANY, Captain--I'm the master, and that name, and that that--that you--that I say--" "That what, sir ?" George asked, with scarcely a sneer, filling another glass of claret.
"-- --!" burst out his father with a screaming oath--"that the name of those Sedleys never be mentioned here, sir--not one of the whole damned lot of 'em, sir." "It wasn't I, sir, that introduced Miss Sedley's name.

It was my sisters who spoke ill of her to Miss Swartz; and by Jove I'll defend her wherever I go.


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