Vanity Fair
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Miss Pinkerton's academy sends its star pupil off with a presentation dictionary, an inscription praising conduct and affectionate esteem, and a purse slipped in under the wrapping paper. Rebecca Sharp, leaving the same morning to be a governess, gets none of it. You play Amelia, sharing the coach to London — and once the school gates are behind you, Rebecca produces a second dictionary nobody recorded, tears out its blank dedication page, and drops the book in the road.
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