Vanity Fair, Chapter 40 özeti

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1. Pitt takes charge of the troubled estate while his father declines under Hester’s care.
2. Sir Pitt dies, and his heir immediately considers paying debts and improving the property.
3. The new Sir Pitt insists on inviting Rawdon and Becky, defeating Lady Southdown’s attempt to control the household.
4. Becky welcomes the invitation, plans modest travel, and tells Rawdon to spread a false expectation of inheritance.
5. Lord Steyne visits as Becky and Briggs prepare mourning clothes, and Becky jokes about the dead baronet.
6. An account of Briggs’s employment explains her family’s demands, Becky’s welcome, and her six-hundred-pound loan to Rawdon.

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Pitt makes the funeral invitation a test of household authority. His refusal to yield also gives Becky an opening into the family.

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