No, but as a satirical jibe it works very well.
No, but as a satirical jibe it works very well.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
It does. Thackery was pointing out that although by "class" sir Pitt was out of the "top drawer", by habit he was a pig, unyet people still venerated him . Also I think I remember Becky implying she was decended from the very highest of pre-revolution French society.
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