A meeting

A meeting

William Makepeace Thackeray

Wood engraving

c.1861

Illustration for Chapter 58, Thackeray's Vanity Fair:

"Old Sedley was seated on a bench, his handkercheif placed over his knees, prattling away according to his wont, with some old story about old times, to which Amelia had listened, and awarded with a patient smile many a time before."

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