... ignores her own son, Rawdy ("He is hidden upstairs in a garret somewhere or has crawled below into the kitchen for companionship"), ridicules her own husband for being so "soft" as to be bothered with him, and leaves all his care to a maid. Her own son bores her, and she destroys any innocence or good nature he originally had. "Seeing that tenderness was the fashion", Becky kisses little Rawdon with high society friends around her "for the camera", so to speak; that is the most affection Rawdy ever gets from Rebecca, and Becky hates him even more when he remarks, shocked, that "You never kiss me at home, mamma". Lord Steyne and Becky gang up on little Rawdon, so much that the poor fellow is reduced to physically putting up his fists to defend himself from Lord Steyne. Becky also appals the render with her sheer callousness: her willingness to toy ...

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