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Chapter LXVII

Which Contains Births,

Marriages, and Deaths

Whatever Becky’s private plan might be by which Dob-
bin’s true love was to be crowned with success, the little
woman thought that the secret might keep, and indeed, be-
ing by no means so much interested about anybody’s welfare
as about her own, she had a great number of things pertain-
ing to herself to consider, and which concerned her a great
deal more than Major Dobbin’s happiness in this life.
She found herself suddenly and unexpectedly in snug
comfortable quarters, surrounded by friends, kindness, and
good-natured simple people such as she had not met with
for many a long day; and, wanderer as she was by force and
inclination, there were moments when rest was pleasant to
her. As the most hardened Arab that ever careered across
the desert over the hump of a dromedary likes to repose
sometimes under the date-trees by the water, or to come
into the cities, walk into the bazaars, refresh himself in the
baths, and say his prayers in the mosques, before he goes
out again marauding, so Jos’s tents and pilau were pleasant

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