Vanity Fair - 02
So that when the day of departure came, between her two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act. She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at leaving school. For three days before, little Laura Martin, the orphan, followed her about like a little dog. She had to make and receive at least fourteen presents—to make fourteen solemn promises of writing every week: "Send my letters under cover to my grandpapa, the Earl of Dexter," said Miss Saltire (who, by the way, was rather shabby). "Never mind the postage, but write every day, you dear darling," said the impetuous and woolly-headed, but generous and affectionate Miss Swartz; and the orphan little Laura Martin (who was just in round-hand), took her friend's hand and said, looking up in her face wistfully, "Amelia, when I write to you I shall call you Mamma." All which details, I have no doubt, JONES, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. Yes; I can see Jones at this minute (rather flushed with his joint of mutton and half pint of wine), taking out his pencil and scoring under the words "foolish, twaddling," &c., and adding to them his own remark of "QUITE TRUE." Well, he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere.
Well, then. The flowers, and the presents, and the trunks, and bonnet-boxes of Miss Sedley having been arranged by Mr. Sambo in the carriage, together with a very small and weather-beaten old cow's-skin trunk with Miss Sharp's card neatly nailed upon it, which was delivered by Sambo with a grin, and packed by the coachman with a corresponding sneer—the hour for parting came; and the grief of that moment was considerably lessened by the admirable discourse which Miss Pinkerton addressed to her pupil. 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. 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.
"You'll go in and say good-by to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!" said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, and who was coming downstairs with her own bandbox.
"I suppose I must," said Miss Sharp calmly, and much to the wonder of Miss Jemima; and the latter having knocked at the door, and receiving permission to come in, Miss Sharp advanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, "Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux."
Miss Pinkerton did not understand French; she only directed those who did: but biting her lips and throwing up her venerable and Roman-nosed head (on the top of which figured a large and solemn turban), she said, "Miss Sharp, I wish you a good morning." As the Hammersmith Semiramis spoke, she waved one hand, both by way of adieu, and to give Miss Sharp an opportunity of shaking one of the fingers of the hand which was left out for that purpose.
Miss Sharp only folded her own hands with a very frigid smile and bow, and quite declined to accept the proffered honour; on which Semiramis tossed up her turban more indignantly than ever. In fact, it was a little battle between the young lady and the old one, and the latter was worsted. "Heaven bless you, my child," said she, embracing Amelia, and scowling the while over the girl's shoulder at Miss Sharp. "Come away, Becky," said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great alarm, and the drawing-room door closed upon them for ever.
Then came the struggle and parting below. Words refuse to tell it. All the servants were there in the hall—all the dear friends—all the young ladies—the dancing-master who had just arrived; and there was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and crying, with the hysterical YOOPS of Miss Swartz, the parlour-boarder, from her room, as no pen can depict, and as the tender heart would fain pass over. The embracing was over; they parted—that is, Miss Sedley parted from her friends. Miss Sharp had demurely entered the carriage some minutes before. Nobody cried for leaving HER.
Sambo of the bandy legs slammed the carriage door on his young weeping mistress. He sprang up behind the carriage. "Stop!" cried Miss Jemima, rushing to the gate with a parcel.
"It's some sandwiches, my dear," said she to Amelia. "You may be hungry, you know; and Becky, Becky Sharp, here's a book for you that my sister—that is, I—Johnson's Dixonary, you know; you mustn't leave us without that. Good-by. Drive on, coachman. God bless you!"
And the kind creature retreated into the garden, overcome with emotion.
But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.
This almost caused Jemima to faint with terror. "Well, I never"—said she—"what an audacious"—Emotion prevented her from completing either sentence. The carriage rolled away; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing lesson. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, farewell to Chiswick Mall.
CHAPTER II
In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign
When Miss Sharp had performed the heroical act mentioned in the last chapter, and had seen the Dixonary, flying over the pavement of the little garden, fall at length at the feet of the astonished Miss Jemima, the young lady's countenance, which had before worn an almost livid look of hatred, assumed a smile that perhaps was scarcely more agreeable, and she sank back in the carriage in an easy frame of mind, saying—"So much for the Dixonary; and, thank God, I'm out of Chiswick."
Miss Sedley was almost as flurried at the act of defiance as Miss Jemima had been; for, consider, it was but one minute that she had left school, and the impressions of six years are not got over in that space of time. Nay, with some persons those awes and terrors of youth last for ever and ever. I know, for instance, an old gentleman of sixty-eight, who said to me one morning at breakfast, with a very agitated countenance, "I dreamed last night that I was flogged by Dr. Raine." Fancy had carried him back five-and-fifty years in the course of that evening. Dr. Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart, then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen. If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, even at the age of threescore and eight, and had said in awful voice, "Boy, take down your pant—"? Well, well, Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed at this act of insubordination.
"How could you do so, Rebecca?" at last she said, after a pause.
"Why, do you think Miss Pinkerton will come out and order me back to the black-hole?" said Rebecca, laughing.
"No: but—"
"I hate the whole house," continued Miss Sharp in a fury. "I hope I may never set eyes on it again. I wish it were in the bottom of the Thames, I do; and if Miss Pinkerton were there, I wouldn't pick her out, that I wouldn't. O how I should like to see her floating in the water yonder, turban and all, with her train streaming after her, and her nose like the beak of a wherry."
"Hush!" cried Miss Sedley.
"Why, will the black footman tell tales?" cried Miss Rebecca, laughing. "He may go back and tell Miss Pinkerton that I hate her with all my soul; and I wish he would; and I wish I had a means of proving it, too. For two years I have only had insults and outrage from her. I have been treated worse than any servant in the kitchen. I have never had a friend or a kind word, except from you. I have been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue. But that talking French to Miss Pinkerton was capital fun, wasn't it? She doesn't know a word of French, and was too proud to confess it. I believe it was that which made her part with me; and so thank Heaven for French. Vive la France! Vive l'Empereur! Vive Bonaparte!"
"O Rebecca, Rebecca, for shame!" cried Miss Sedley; for this was the greatest blasphemy Rebecca had as yet uttered; and in those days, in England, to say, "Long live Bonaparte!" was as much as to say, "Long live Lucifer!" "How can you—how dare you have such wicked, revengeful thoughts?"
"Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural," answered Miss Rebecca. "I'm no angel." And, to say the truth, she certainly was not.
For it may be remarked in the course of this little conversation (which took place as the coach rolled along lazily by the river side) that though Miss Rebecca Sharp has twice had occasion to thank Heaven, it has been, in the first place, for ridding her of some person whom she hated, and secondly, for enabling her to bring her enemies to some sort of perplexity or confusion; neither of which are very amiable motives for religious gratitude, or such as would be put forward by persons of a kind and placable disposition. Miss Rebecca was not, then, in the least kind or placable. All the world used her ill, said this young misanthropist, and we may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treats ill, deserve entirely the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. This is certain, that if the world neglected Miss Sharp, she never was known to have done a good action in behalf of anybody; nor can it be expected that twenty-four young ladies should all be as amiable as the heroine of this work, Miss Sedley (whom we have selected for the very reason that she was the best-natured of all, otherwise what on earth was to have prevented us from putting up Miss Swartz, or Miss Crump, or Miss Hopkins, as heroine in her place!) it could not be expected that every one should be of the humble and gentle temper of Miss Amelia Sedley; should take every opportunity to vanquish Rebecca's hard-heartedness and ill-humour; and, by a thousand kind words and offices, overcome, for once at least, her hostility to her kind.
Miss Sharp's father was an artist, and in that quality had given lessons of drawing at Miss Pinkerton's school. He was a clever man; a pleasant companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern. When he was drunk, he used to beat his wife and daughter; and the next morning, with a headache, he would rail at the world for its neglect of his genius, and abuse, with a good deal of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters. As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, and as he owed money for a mile round Soho, where he lived, he thought to better his circumstances by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl. The humble calling of her female parent Miss Sharp never alluded to, but used to state subsequently that the Entrechats were a noble family of Gascony, and took great pride in her descent from them. And curious it is that as she advanced in life this young lady's ancestors increased in rank and splendour.
Rebecca's mother had had some education somewhere, and her daughter spoke French with purity and a Parisian accent. It was in those days rather a rare accomplishment, and led to her engagement with the orthodox Miss Pinkerton. For her mother being dead, her father, finding himself not likely to recover, after his third attack of delirium tremens, wrote a manly and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton, recommending the orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse. Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over as an articled pupil; her duties being to talk French, as we have seen; and her privileges to live cost free, and, with a few guineas a year, to gather scraps of knowledge from the professors who attended the school.
She was small and slight in person; pale, sandy-haired, and with eyes habitually cast down: when they looked up they were very large, odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fell in love with Miss Sharp; being shot dead by a glance of her eyes which was fired all the way across Chiswick Church from the school-pew to the reading-desk. This infatuated young man used sometimes to take tea with Miss Pinkerton, to whom he had been presented by his mamma, and actually proposed something like marriage in an intercepted note, which the one-eyed apple-woman was charged to deliver. Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, and abruptly carried off her darling boy; but the idea, even, of such an eagle in the Chiswick dovecot caused a great flutter in the breast of Miss Pinkerton, who would have sent away Miss Sharp but that she was bound to her under a forfeit, and who never could thoroughly believe the young lady's protestations that she had never exchanged a single word with Mr. Crisp, except under her own eyes on the two occasions when she had met him at tea.
By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty. Many a dun had she talked to, and turned away from her father's door; many a tradesman had she coaxed and wheedled into good-humour, and into the granting of one meal more. She sate commonly with her father, who was very proud of her wit, and heard the talk of many of his wild companions—often but ill-suited for a girl to hear. But she never had been a girl, she said; she had been a woman since she was eight years old. Oh, why did Miss Pinkerton let such a dangerous bird into her cage?
The fact is, the old lady believed Rebecca to be the meekest creature in the world, so admirably, on the occasions when her father brought her to Chiswick, used Rebecca to perform the part of the ingenue; and only a year before the arrangement by which Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll—which was, by the way, the confiscated property of Miss Swindle, discovered surreptitiously nursing it in school-hours. How the father and daughter laughed as they trudged home together after the evening party (it was on the occasion of the speeches, when all the professors were invited) and how Miss Pinkerton would have raged had she seen the caricature of herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of her doll. Becky used to go through dialogues with it; it formed the delight of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists' quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, dissolute, clever, jovial senior, used regularly to ask Rebecca if Miss Pinkerton was at home: she was as well known to them, poor soul! as Mr. Lawrence or President West. Once Rebecca had the honour to pass a few days at Chiswick; after which she brought back Jemima, and erected another doll as Miss Jemmy: for though that honest creature had made and given her jelly and cake enough for three children, and a seven-shilling piece at parting, the girl's sense of ridicule was far stronger than her gratitude, and she sacrificed Miss Jemmy quite as pitilessly as her sister.
The catastrophe came, and she was brought to the Mall as to her home. The rigid formality of the place suffocated her: the prayers and the meals, the lessons and the walks, which were arranged with a conventual regularity, oppressed her almost beyond endurance; and she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was consumed with grief for her father. She had a little room in the garret, where the maids heard her walking and sobbing at night; but it was with rage, and not with grief. She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign. She had never mingled in the society of women: her father, reprobate as he was, was a man of talent; his conversation was a thousand times more agreeable to her than the talk of such of her own sex as she now encountered. The pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress, the foolish good-humour of her sister, the silly chat and scandal of the elder girls, and the frigid correctness of the governesses equally annoyed her; and she had no soft maternal heart, this unlucky girl, otherwise the prattle and talk of the younger children, with whose care she was chiefly intrusted, might have soothed and interested her; but she lived among them two years, and not one was sorry that she went away. The gentle tender-hearted Amelia Sedley was the only person to whom she could attach herself in the least; and who could help attaching herself to Amelia?
The happiness—the superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy. "What airs that girl gives herself, because she is an Earl's grand-daughter," she said of one. "How they cringe and bow to that Creole, because of her hundred thousand pounds! I am a thousand times cleverer and more charming than that creature, for all her wealth. I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here. And yet, when I was at my father's, did not the men give up their gayest balls and parties in order to pass the evening with me?" She determined at any rate to get free from the prison in which she found herself, and now began to act for herself, and for the first time to make connected plans for the future.
She took advantage, therefore, of the means of study the place offered her; and as she was already a musician and a good linguist, she speedily went through the little course of study which was considered necessary for ladies in those days. Her music she practised incessantly, and one day, when the girls were out, and she had remained at home, she was overheard to play a piece so well that Minerva thought, wisely, she could spare herself the expense of a master for the juniors, and intimated to Miss Sharp that she was to instruct them in music for the future.
The girl refused; and for the first time, and to the astonishment of the majestic mistress of the school. "I am here to speak French with the children," Rebecca said abruptly, "not to teach them music, and save money for you. Give me money, and I will teach them."
Minerva was obliged to yield, and, of course, disliked her from that day. "For five-and-thirty years," she said, and with great justice, "I never have seen the individual who has dared in my own house to question my authority. I have nourished a viper in my bosom."
"A viper—a fiddlestick," said Miss Sharp to the old lady, almost fainting with astonishment. "You took me because I was useful. There is no question of gratitude between us. I hate this place, and want to leave it. I will do nothing here but what I am obliged to do."
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- Vanity Fair - 50Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2778Total number of unique words is 98853.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 51Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3453Total number of unique words is 116652.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 52Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3294Total number of unique words is 106555.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words77.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 53Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3448Total number of unique words is 111855.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 54Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3359Total number of unique words is 114453.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 55Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3343Total number of unique words is 114753.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 56Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3320Total number of unique words is 111855.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 57Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3230Total number of unique words is 109154.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 58Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2917Total number of unique words is 98753.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 59Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3404Total number of unique words is 116550.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 60Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3546Total number of unique words is 112054.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 61Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3464Total number of unique words is 120350.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words67.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words74.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 62Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3476Total number of unique words is 118551.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 63Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3427Total number of unique words is 109755.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 64Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3344Total number of unique words is 114955.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 65Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3365Total number of unique words is 108756.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 66Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3326Total number of unique words is 120448.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words66.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words74.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 67Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3207Total number of unique words is 116947.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words64.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words72.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 68Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3450Total number of unique words is 103055.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 69Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3489Total number of unique words is 111556.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 70Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3539Total number of unique words is 109156.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 71Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3248Total number of unique words is 103158.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 72Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3445Total number of unique words is 103958.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 73Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3438Total number of unique words is 113552.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 74Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3103Total number of unique words is 106251.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 75Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3303Total number of unique words is 111653.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 76Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3377Total number of unique words is 107858.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 77Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3399Total number of unique words is 115153.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 78Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3437Total number of unique words is 106358.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 79Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3401Total number of unique words is 116755.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 80Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3328Total number of unique words is 103058.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 81Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3146Total number of unique words is 118249.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words65.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words72.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 82Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3361Total number of unique words is 115952.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 83Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3322Total number of unique words is 114849.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words66.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words73.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 84Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3347Total number of unique words is 115654.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 85Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3282Total number of unique words is 115649.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words64.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words72.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 86Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3380Total number of unique words is 116453.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 87Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3198Total number of unique words is 106857.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 88Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3371Total number of unique words is 100761.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words85.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 89Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3197Total number of unique words is 108955.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 90Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3382Total number of unique words is 106958.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Vanity Fair - 91Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 1325Total number of unique words is 55263.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words