WHILE THE present century was in its teens, and on one
sunshinymorning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of
missPinkerton''s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick mall, a
largefamily coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven
by afat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of
fourmiles an hour. a black servant, who reposed on the box beside
thefat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the
equipagedrew up opposite miss Pinkerton''s shining brass plate, and
as hepulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen
peeringout of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house.
Nay,the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose
ofgood-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over
somegeranium pots in the window of that lady''s own
drawing-room.
目錄:
BEFORE THE CURTAIN
CHAPTER I Chiswick Mall
CHAPTER II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley
Prepare to Open the Campaign
CHAPTER III Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy
CHAPTER IV The Green Silk Purse
CHAPTERV Dobbin of Ours
CHAPTER VI Vauxhall
CHAPTERVII Crawley of Queen''s Crawley
CHAPTERVIII Private and Confidential
CHAPTER IX Family Portraits
CHAPTER X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity
CHAPTER XII Quite a Sentimental Chapter
CHAPTERXIII Sentimental and Otherwise ~
CHAPTERXIV Miss Crawley at Home
CHAPTER XV In Which Rebecca''s Husband Appears
for a Short Time
CHAPTER XVI The Letter on the Pincushion
CHAPTERXVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano
CHAPTER XVIII Who Played on the Piano Captain
Dobbin Bought
CHAPTER XIX Miss Crawley at Nurse
CHAPTER XX In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the
Messenger of Hymen
CHAPTER XXI A Quarrel About an Heiress
CHAPTER XXII A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon
CHAPTERXXIII Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass
CHAPTER XXIV In Which Mr. Osborne Takes Down
the Family Bible
CHAPTERXXV InWhichAll the Principal Personages
Think Fit to Leave Brighton
CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham
CHAPTERXXVII InWhich Amelia Joins Her Regiment
CHAPTERXXVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low
Countries
CHAPTER XXIX Brussels
CHAPTER XXX "The Girl I Left Behind Me".
CHAPTER XXXI In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His
Sister
CHAPTERXXXII In WhichJos Takes Flight, and the War
Is Brought to a Close
CHAPTER XXXIII In Which Miss Crawley''s Relations
Are Very Anxious About Her
CHAPTER XXXIV James Crawley''s Pipe Is Put Out
CHAPTERXXXV Widow and Mother
CHAPTER XXXVI How to Live Well on Nothing a Year
CHAPTERXXXVII The Subject Continued
CHAPTERXXXVIII A Family in a Very Small Way
CHAPTER XXXIX A Cynical Chapter
CHAPTER XL In Which Becky Is Recognized by the Family
CHAPTER XLI In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of HerAncestors
CHAPTER XLII Which Treats of the Osborne Family
CHAPTER XLIII In Which the Reader Has to Doublethe Cape
CHAPTER XLIV A Round-about Chapter between
London and Hampshire
CHAPTERXLV Between Hampshire and London
CI-IAPTER XLVI Struggles and Trials
CHAPTERXLVII Gaunt House
CHAPTER XLVHI In Which the Reader Is Introducedto the Very Best of
Company
CtL~PTERXLIX InWhichWe EnjoyThree Courses
and a Dessert
CHAPTER L Contains a Vulgar Incident
CHAPTER LI In Which a Charade Is Acted Which
May or May Not Puzzle the Reader
CHAPTER LI! In Which Lord Steyne Shows
Himself in a Most Amiable Light
CHAPTER LIII A Rescue and a Catastrophe
CHAPTER LIV SundayAfter the Battle
CHAPTER LV In Which the Same Subject is Pursued
CHAPTER LVI Georgy Is Made a Gentleman
CHAPTER LVII Eothen
CHAPTER LVIII Our Friend the Major
CHAPTER LIX The Old Piano
CHAPTER LX Returns to the Genteel World
CHAPTER LXI In Which Two Lights are Put Out
CHAPTER LXII Am Rhein
CHAPTER LXIII In Which We Meet an Old Acquaintance
CHAPTER LXIV A Vagabond Chapter
CHAPTER LXV Full of Business and Pleasure
CHAPTER LXVI Amantium Irae
CHAPTER LXVII Which Contains Births,
Marriages, and Deaths