Vanity Fair, Chapter 31: riassunto

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1. Jos enjoys George’s absence while Isidor anticipates an English defeat and imagines taking his master’s clothes and valuables.
2. Pauline comforts Amelia, whose distress over her husband’s departure keeps her alone in her room.
3. Isidor repeats alarming reports, and Jos prepares to investigate them before Rebecca arrives and revives his attraction to her.
4. Rebecca privately counts on escaping in Jos’s carriage, then visits Amelia, who accuses her of taking George’s love.
5. Rebecca sends Mrs. O’Dowd to Amelia, whose distress eases somewhat under her friend’s steady care.
6. Mrs. O’Dowd joins Jos for dinner, but distant cannon fire draws them and the city’s anxious residents to their windows.

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