Charles Dickens

Name: Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII
Author: Charles Dickens

Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

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“Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII”, published in 1854, is a work by Charles Dickens. It explores elements such as Sissy, Sleary and Louisa.

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ Sleary was not there. Master Kidderminster, grown too maturely turfy to be received by the wildest credulity as Cupid any more, had yielded to the invincible force of circumstances (and his beard) , and, in the capacity of a man who made himself generally useful, presided on this occasion over the exchequer - having also a drum in reserve, on which to expend his leisure moments and superfluous forces. In the extreme sharpness of his look out for base coin, Mr. Kidderminster, as at present situated, never saw anything but money; so Sissy passed him unrecognised, and they went in. ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ Coming out with every word about our having gone to that place, when you saw the net was gathering round me. Pretty love that! You have regularly given me up. You never cared for me.’
‘Tharp’th the word!’ said Sleary, at the door.
They all confusedly went out: Louisa crying to him that she forgave him, and loved him still, and that he would one day be sorry to have left her so, and glad to think of these her last words, far away: when some one ran against them. Mr. Gradgrind and Sissy, who were both before him while his sister yet clung to his shoulder, stopped and recoiled. ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ Bounderby himself, in a bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part - it was consented that Sissy and Louisa should repair to the place in question, by a circuitous course, alone; and that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction, should get round to the same bourne by another and wider route. It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelligence of his arrival should cause his son to take flight anew; but, that the communication should be left to Sissy and Louisa to open ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ For, there was Bitzer, out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended, his white eyelashes quivering, his colourless face more colourless than ever, as if he ran himself into a white heat, when other people ran themselves into a glow. ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ I can’t be more miserable anywhere,’ whimpered the whelp, ‘than I have been here, ever since I can remember. That’s one thing.’
Mr. Gradgrind went to the door, and returned with Sleary, to whom he submitted the question, How to get this deplorable object away?
‘Why, I’ve been thinking of it, Thquire. There’th not muth time to lothe, tho you muth thay yeth or no. Ith over twenty mileth to the rail. There’th a coath in half an hour, that goeth to the rail, ‘purpothe to cath the mail train. ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ That train will take him right to Liverpool.’
‘But look at him,’ groaned Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Will any coach - ’
‘I don’t mean that he thould go in the comic livery,’ said Sleary. ‘Thay the word, and I’ll make a Jothkin of him, out of the wardrobe, in five minutes.’
‘I don’t understand,’ said Mr. Gradgrind.
‘A Jothkin - a Carter. Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There’ll be beer to feth. I’ve never met with nothing but beer ath’ll ever clean a comic blackamoor.’
Mr. Gradgrind rapidly assented; Mr. Sleary rapidly turned out from a box, a smock frock, a felt hat, and other essentials ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ Old enough to be hith mother. Thee wath Tightrope, thee wath, and now thee’th nothing - on accounth of fat. They’ve got two children, tho we’re thtrong in the Fairy bithnith and the Nurthery dodge. If you wath to thee our Children in the Wood, with their father and mother both a dyin’ on a horthe - their uncle a retheiving of ’em ath hith wardth, upon a horthe - themthelvth both a goin’ a black- berryin’ on a horthe - and the Robinth a coming in to cover ’em with leavth, upon a horthe - you’d thay it wath the completetht thing ath ever you thet your eyeth on! ”

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Charles Dickens, Hard Times — Book the Third, Chapter VII (1854)

“ You thee em all? Very good. Now, mith;’ he put a form for them to sit on; ‘I have my opinionth, and the Thquire your father hath hith. I don’t want to know what your brother’th been up to; ith better for me not to know. All I thay ith, the Thquire hath thtood by Thethilia, and I’ll thtand by the Thquire. Your brother ith one them black thervanth.’
Louisa uttered an exclamation, partly of distress, partly of satisfaction.
‘Ith a fact,’ said Sleary, ‘and even knowin’ it, you couldn’t put your finger on him. Let the Thquire come. I thall keep your brother here after the performanth. ”

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