Vanity fair (1900) (14784538973)

Identifier: vanityfair01thac (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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eet, pale face ; the purple eyelidswere fringed and closed, and one round arm, smooth andwhite, lay outside of the coverlet. Good God ! how pure shewas ; how gentle, how tender, and how friendless ! and he,how selfish, brutal, and black with crime ! Heart-stained andshame-stricken, he stood at the beds foot, and looked at thesleeping girl. How dared he—who was he—to pray for oneso spotless ! God bless her ! God bless her ! He came tothe bedside^ and looked at the hand, the little soft hand,lying asleep ; and he bent over the pillow noiselessly towardthe gentle, pale face. Two fair arms closed tenderly round his neck as he stoopeddown. I am awake, George, the poor child said, with asob fit to break the little heart that nestled so closely by hisown. She was awake, poor soul, and to what ? At that mo-ment a bugle from the Place of Arms began sounding clearly,and was taken up through the town ; and amid the drums ofthe infantry and the shrill pipes of the Scotch, the whole cityawokco
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THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME. 319 CHAPTER XXX. THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME. E do not claim to rank among themilitary novelists. Our place iswith the non-combatants. Whenthe decks are cleared for actionwe go bel®w and wait meekly.We should only be in the wayof the manoeuvres that the gal-lant fellows are performingoverhead. We shall go no far-ther with the —th than to thecity gate ; and leaving MajorODowd to his duty, come backto the majors wife and theladies and the baggage. Now, the major and his lady,who had not been invited to theball at which, in our last chap-ter, other of our friends figured,had much more time to take their wholesome natural rest inbed than was accorded to people who wished to enjoy pleas-ure as well as to do duty. Its my belief, Peggy, my dear,said he, as he placidly pulled his night cap over his ears, that there will be such a ball danced in a day or two as someof em has never heard thechuneof ; and he was much morehappy to retire to rest after partaking of a qu