Vanity-Fair

But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity-Fair exhibits in public, do not always pursue the performer into private life, and that the most dreary depression of spirits and dismal repentances sometimes overcome him.

XIX. Miss Crawley at Nurse 1917

Here as at home, I remarked that the vendors of these superfluities occupy the approaches to this Vanity-Fair.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864