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CHAPTER III
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Rek'lect you owe me a pint for bringing down your luggage.

He, he! ask Tinker if I ain't." The lady addressed as Mrs.Tinker at this moment made her appearance, with a pipe and a paper of tobacco, for which she had been despatched a minute before Miss Sharp's arrival; and she handed the articles over to Sir Pitt, who had taken his seat by the fire.
"Where's the farden ?" said he.

"I gave you three-halfpence; where's the change, old Tinker ?" "There," replied Mrs.Tinker, flinging down the coin.

"It's only baronets as cares about farthings." Sir Pitt Crawley has always been to me a stretch of audacity which I have been unable to understand.

But it has been accepted; and from this commencement of Sir Pitt Crawley have grown the wonderful characters of the Crawley family,--old Miss Crawley, the worldly, wicked, pleasure-loving aunt, the Rev.Bute Crawley and his wife, who are quite as worldly, the sanctimonious elder son, who in truth is not less so, and Rawdon, who ultimately becomes Becky's husband,--who is the bad hero of the book, as Dobbin is the good hero.


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