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Page 51
... Dorrit family in prison and their gradual habitu- ation to it are done with a restraint and sobriety never displayed by Dickens up to now . The incident in which Mr. Dorrit , after getting used to accepting tips in his rôle of the ...
... Dorrit family in prison and their gradual habitu- ation to it are done with a restraint and sobriety never displayed by Dickens up to now . The incident in which Mr. Dorrit , after getting used to accepting tips in his rôle of the ...
Page 53
... Dorrit , at a fashionable dinner , loses control of his wits and slips back into his character at the Marshalsea : " Born here , ' he repeated , shed- ding tears . ' Bred here . Ladies and gentlemen , my daughter . Child of an ...
... Dorrit , at a fashionable dinner , loses control of his wits and slips back into his character at the Marshalsea : " Born here , ' he repeated , shed- ding tears . ' Bred here . Ladies and gentlemen , my daughter . Child of an ...
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... Dorrit probably caricature Dickens ' fears . Surely the Dorrits ' travels on the Continent caricature the prog- ress of the Dickenses . Old Dorrit's rise in the world is no rescue at the end of a fairy tale , as it would have been in ...
... Dorrit probably caricature Dickens ' fears . Surely the Dorrits ' travels on the Continent caricature the prog- ress of the Dickenses . Old Dorrit's rise in the world is no rescue at the end of a fairy tale , as it would have been in ...
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