Word: dobbin
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...enough, but when he does come on, he is the center of attraction. We know a professor whose face gets red just before he explodes exactly like "old Frosty's", so we enjoyed the exhibition superlatively. Whoever conceived the scene where that dignified old sairap toach around on "Dandy Dobbin" was a master of comedy. And for that matter, the scene in which about a dozen of the chorus gambol in the costumes of a generation or so age, (we aren't quite suro how many generations), and some of the "boys" pose in an old-time daguerreotype was second...
Anne is an orphan, left in the charge of two young men. One of them marries her, and the other, John Halliday, a sort of intellectual Major Dobbin, equally in love with her, must be content to worship from afar. Anne, as a bride of 17, is not willing to become prematurely a sedate matron; she starts out to live her life in her own sweet way. But finally, after she has had her share of trouble and excitement--after she has been separated from her husband and has lost her only child--come reconciliation and a humbling...