The Ribbons discovered in the fact
Illustrator: William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustration to Chapter 39, Thackeray's Vanity Fair
"Law, Betsy, how could you go for to tell such a wicked story! said Hester, the little kitchen-maid laid on her promotion-"and to Madam Crawley, so good and kind, and his Rev'rince (with a curtsey) and you may seach all my boxes, Mum, I'm sure, and here's my keys as I'm an honest girl though of pore parents and workhouse bred-and if you find so much as a beggarly bits of lace or a silk stocking out of all the gownds as you'be had the picking of may I never go to church agin."
