Your dutiful Son, GEORGE SEDLEY OSBORNE
P.S.—Give my love to little Emmy. I am cutting her out a Coach in cardboard. Please not a seedcake, but a plum-cake.
In consequence of Dobbin's victory, his character rose prodigiously in the estimation of all his schoolfellows, and the name of Figs, which had been a byword of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nickname as any other in use in the school."After all, it's not his fault that his father's a grocer,"George Osborne said, who, though a little chap, had a very high popularity among the Swishtail youth; and his opinion was received with great applause. It was voted low to sneer at Dobbin about this accident of birth. "Old Figs" grew to be a name of kindness and endearment; and the sneak of an usher jeered at him no longer.