Vanity Fair, Chapter 25: Zusammenfassung

Was geschieht

1. Dobbin delivers a lawyer’s letter rejecting George’s marriage and leaving him two thousand pounds from his mother’s fortune.
2. George blames Dobbin, while Amelia welcomes shared hardship and insists on accompanying George to Belgium.
3. Rebecca secures George’s gambling payment for Rawdon, and George, Amelia, Jos, and Dobbin leave Brighton for London.
4. Mrs. Bute leaves to attend her injured husband, freeing Miss Crawley’s household and allowing Rebecca to approach Briggs.
5. Rebecca dictates Rawdon’s appeal to his aunt, who briefly receives him but then refuses further meetings.
6. The Crawleys return to London, where Rebecca finds Amelia’s party gone and Rawdon discovers his aunt’s gift is twenty pounds.

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The appeal claims affection without financial motives. Miss Crawley distrusts that claim, while Rawdon’s expectations of a substantial gift expose the tension.

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