Vanity Fair, Chapter 38: samenvatting

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1. Joseph Sedley returns to India, boasts about Waterloo, and supplies the main income supporting his impoverished parents.
2. Amelia clashes with her mother over medicine for Georgy and makes her son the center of her life.
3. Neighbors admire Amelia and help Georgy, but she refuses Mr. Binny’s marriage proposal and remains devoted to her dead husband.
4. Dobbin obtains wine orders for Mr. Sedley, then absorbs heavy losses when the wine proves bad.
5. A dispute over Amelia’s money reveals that Dobbin secretly supplies it; he continues sending gifts and offering support for Georgy’s education.
6. The Misses Dobbin report that their brother may marry Glorvina O’Dowd, and Amelia responds with tears, silence, and tender affection for Georgy.

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