Vanity Fair, Chapter 16 — краткое содержание

Что происходит

1. Rawdon follows Rebecca’s plan, rents rooms in Brompton, and fills them with gifts bought on credit.
2. Rebecca charms Miss Crawley before leaving secretly and placing a letter for Briggs on her pincushion.
3. Betty Martin discovers the empty bedroom, and Briggs reads Rebecca’s announcement of her marriage to Rawdon.
4. Mrs. Bute arrives and helps Briggs disclose the marriage to Miss Crawley, who erupts in anger and faints.
5. Sir Pitt learns that Rebecca marries his son and rages; at Queen’s Crawley, he destroys and scatters her remaining belongings.
6. In their Brompton rooms, Rawdon worries about his aunt’s forgiveness, but Rebecca promises to make his fortune.

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Rebecca answers Rawdon’s financial anxiety with confidence. The narrator’s comparison stresses her influence over a physically powerful but obedient husband.

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