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Vanity Fair

CHAPTER XVI
16/18

The doctor was sent for--the apothecary arrived.

Mrs.Bute took up the post of nurse by her bedside.
"Her relations ought to be round about her," that amiable woman said.
She had scarcely been carried up to her room, when a new person arrived to whom it was also necessary to break the news.

This was Sir Pitt.
"Where's Becky ?" he said, coming in.

"Where's her traps?
She's coming with me to Queen's Crawley." "Have you not heard the astonishing intelligence regarding her surreptitious union ?" Briggs asked.
"What's that to me ?" Sir Pitt asked.

"I know she's married.


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