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Page 21
... figure of a parentless and helpless child - a figure of which the pathos will itself be eclipsed by the horror of the last night in the condemned cell of a betrayer of others to the gallows , and by the headlong descent into hell of a ...
... figure of a parentless and helpless child - a figure of which the pathos will itself be eclipsed by the horror of the last night in the condemned cell of a betrayer of others to the gallows , and by the headlong descent into hell of a ...
Page 70
... figures in Our Mutual Friend is the robbing of the dead bodies in the Thames . ) But the real meaning of the dust - pile ... figure who is played off against parasites of various sorts ; but in Hard Times , written immediately afterward ...
... figures in Our Mutual Friend is the robbing of the dead bodies in the Thames . ) But the real meaning of the dust - pile ... figure who is played off against parasites of various sorts ; but in Hard Times , written immediately afterward ...
Page 71
... figure of fun - gone with the Yoho ! of the stagecoach on which Tom Pinch traveled to London . The Podsnaps , the Lam- mles , the Veneerings , the Fledgebys , are unpleasant as are no other characters in Dickens . It comes to us as a ...
... figure of fun - gone with the Yoho ! of the stagecoach on which Tom Pinch traveled to London . The Podsnaps , the Lam- mles , the Veneerings , the Fledgebys , are unpleasant as are no other characters in Dickens . It comes to us as a ...
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