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Page 25
... prisons of London broken open , and even the Bank of England attacked , and that the authorities should for several ... prison . This incident not only has nothing to do with the climax of the plot , it goes in spirit quite against the ...
... prisons of London broken open , and even the Bank of England attacked , and that the authorities should for several ... prison . This incident not only has nothing to do with the climax of the plot , it goes in spirit quite against the ...
Page 51
... 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 Father of the ...
... 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 Father of the ...
Page 53
... prison . They cannot behave like the people outside . And yet that outside world is itself insecure . It is dominated by Mr. Merdle , who comes , as the story goes on , to be universally believed and admired - is . taken up by the ...
... prison . They cannot behave like the people outside . And yet that outside world is itself insecure . It is dominated by Mr. Merdle , who comes , as the story goes on , to be universally believed and admired - is . taken up by the ...
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