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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XXI
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Some, like Dobbin, fanatically admired him.

And his whiskers had begun to do their work, and to curl themselves round the affections of Miss Swartz.
Whenever there was a chance of meeting him in Russell Square, that simple and good-natured young woman was quite in a flurry to see her dear Misses Osborne.

She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers.

She adorned her person with her utmost skill to please the Conqueror, and exhibited all her simple accomplishments to win his favour.

The girls would ask her, with the greatest gravity, for a little music, and she would sing her three songs and play her two little pieces as often as ever they asked, and with an always increasing pleasure to herself.


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