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As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on
the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over
him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating
and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking,
cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about,
bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out,
quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and
yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while
the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Yes, this is
VANITY FAIR; not a moral place certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy.
Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their
business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to
dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. The
curtain will be up presently, and he will be turning over head and heels, and
crying, ‘How are you?’
A man with a reflective turn of mind, walking through an
exhibition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other
people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kindness touches and amuses him here
and there—a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing
whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder
behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his
tumbling; but the general impression is one more melancholy than mirthful. When
you come home you sit down in a sober, contemplative, not uncharitable frame of
mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business …
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