Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity fair by William Makepeace ThackerayChapter 17"How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano"If there is any exhibition in all Vanity fair which Satire and Sentimentcan visit arm in arm together; where you light on the strangest contrastslaughable and tearful: where you may be gentle and pathetic, or savageand cynical with perfect propriety: it is at one of those public assemblies,a crowd of which are advertised every day in the last page of the Timesnewspaper, and over which the late Mr. George Robins used to presidewith so much dignity. There are very few London people, as I fancy,who have not attended at these meetings, and all with a taste formoralizing must have thought, with a sensation and interest not a littlestartling and queer, of the day when their turn shall come too, and will sell by the orders of Diogenes assignees, or will beinstructed by the executors, to offer to public competition, the library,furniture, plate, wardrobe, and choice cellar of wines of with the most selfish disposition, the Vanity Fairian, as hewitnesses this sordid part of the obsequies of a departed friend, can t butfeel some sympathies and regret.

Vanity Fair: Chapter 17 Created for Lit2Go on the web at fcit.usf.edu 3 military-looking gentleman, seated demurely at the mahogany table, could not help grinning as …

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