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Lady Steyne is Lord Steyne’s wife. A deeply religious woman, she apparently copes with her husband’s immoral behavior (he offers his house as a place where other nobles can have discreet affairs and likely engages in affairs himself) by pretending not to know about it. Despite Lady Steyne’s initial reservations about Becky, Becky wins her over by playing religious music.
Lady Steyne Quotes in Vanity Fair
The Vanity Fair quotes below are all either spoken by Lady Steyne or refer to Lady Steyne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 47
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His wife and family returned to this country and took up their abode at Gaunt House. Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expedition—never died there—never lived there—never was there at all. He was nowhere; he was gone out altogether. ‘Brazil,’ said one gossip to another, with a grin—‘Brazil is St. John's Wood. Rio de Janeiro is a cottage surrounded by four walls, and George Gaunt is accredited to a keeper, who has invested him with the order of the Strait-Waistcoat.’ These are the kinds of epitaphs which men pass over one another in Vanity Fair.
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Lady Steyne Quotes in Vanity Fair
The Vanity Fair quotes below are all either spoken by Lady Steyne or refer to Lady Steyne. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 47
Quotes
His wife and family returned to this country and took up their abode at Gaunt House. Lord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expedition—never died there—never lived there—never was there at all. He was nowhere; he was gone out altogether. ‘Brazil,’ said one gossip to another, with a grin—‘Brazil is St. John's Wood. Rio de Janeiro is a cottage surrounded by four walls, and George Gaunt is accredited to a keeper, who has invested him with the order of the Strait-Waistcoat.’ These are the kinds of epitaphs which men pass over one another in Vanity Fair.
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