Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «For Becky Sharp,» answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her withered face and neck, as she turned her back on her sister. «For Becky Sharp: she’s going too.»
B) «MISS JEMIMA!» exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. «Are you in your senses? Replace the Dictionary in the closet, and never venture to take such a liberty in future.»
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) «It is Mrs. Sedley’s coach, sister,» said Miss Jemima. «Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat.»
B) «Have you completed all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley’s departure, Miss Jemima?» asked Miss Pinkerton herself, that majestic lady; the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Doctor Johnson, the correspondent of Mrs. Chapone herself
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A black rap singer, who reposed on the box beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton’s shining brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house
B) Nay, the acute observer might have recognised the little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some geranium pots in the window of that lady’s own drawing-room
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A seed-cake and a bottle of wine were produced in the drawing-room, as on the solemn occasions of the visits of parents, and these refreshments being partaken of, Miss Sedley was at liberty to depart
B) Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) All the servants were there in the hall - all the dear friend - all the young ladies - the dancing-master who had just arrived
B) There was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and howling, with the hysterical YOOPS of Miss Rot
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Although schoolmistresses’ letters are to be trusted no more nor less than graveyard epitaphs
B) Yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life who is really deserving of all the praises the stone cutter carves over his bones
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia won the hate of everybody who came near her, from Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery, and the one-eyed tart-woman’s daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall
B) She had only two intimate and bosom friends out of the twenty-four young ladies
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia would laugh over a dead man
B) Even Miss Pinkerton, that austere and godlike woman, ceased scolding her after the first time
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia’s legs blushed with rosy health, and her lips with the freshest of smiles
B) She had a pair of ears which sparkled with the brightest and honestest good-humour, except indeed when they filled with tears, and that was a great deal too often
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Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Amelia’s mother had had some education somewhere, and her daughter spoke French with purity and a Parisian accent
B) It was in those days rather a rare accomplishment, and led to her engagement with the orthodox Miss Pingpong
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