- I. Direct.
- II. Dramatic.
- 1. Situation.
- 2. Character.
- a. Witty protagonists.
- b. Comical antagonists.
[121] Trollope: Ralph the Heir, 275.
[122] Ibid., 275–276.
[123] The Bertrams, 150.
[124] Vanity Fair, I, 225.
[125] Vanity Fair, I, 396. In Chapter XIX occurs the remark, “Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters.”
[126] Ibid., I, 214.
[127] Ibid., I, 233.
[128] Vanity Fair, II, 304.
[129] Among countless such gems, the following is of purest ray serene: