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Rebecca, seeing that tenderness was the fashion, called Rawdon to her one evening and stooped down and kissed him in the presence of all the ladies.

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"Rawdon," said Becky, very late one night, as a party of gentlemen were seated round her crackling drawing-room fire (for the men came to her house to finish the night; and she had ice and coffee for them, the best in London): "I must have a sheep-dog."

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So while Becky and Rawdon act as if inheritance is the one and only key to prosperity, it is plainly possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, or imprudently burn through your family fortune.

The Economics of Inheritance in Vanity Fair, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It isn't hard for her to hook Rawdon, the favorite nephew of a wealthy spinster.

The Economics of Inheritance in Vanity Fair, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

There was a corpse in Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier's bunk.

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Rawdon said, “Hm, as you please,” looking very glum, and at which the two young officers exchanged knowing glances.

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“It is I, Rawdon,” she said in a timid voice, which she strove to render cheerful.

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But he made Rawdon a handsome offer of his hand whenever the latter should come to England and choose to take it; and, thanking Mrs. Crawley for her good opinion of himself and Lady Jane, he graciously pronounced his willingness to take any opportunity to serve her little boy.

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He and Rawdon are playing at cards every night, and you know he is very poor, and Rawdon will win every shilling from him if he does not take care.

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If some parts of his conduct made Captain Dobbin exceedingly grave and cool; of what use was it to tell George that, though his whiskers were large, and his own opinion of his knowingness great, he was as green as a schoolboy? that Rawdon was making a victim of him as he had done of many before, and as soon as he had used him would fling him off with scorn?

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