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@vivids Apr 19, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #15/147

Childers replied pointedly, that he was not at all astonished to hear it.‘Very well,’ said Bounderby. ‘I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. Do I excuse her for it? No. Have I ever e…

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@vivids Apr 3, 2026, 7:54 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #14/147

‘It was you, I believe, that were wishing to see Jupe?’‘It was,’ said Mr Gradgrind. ‘His daughter has gone to fetch him, but I can’t wait; therefore, if you please, I will leave a message for him wit…

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@vivids Mar 19, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #13/147

CHAPTER 6Sleary’s HorsemanshipTHEname of the public house was the Pegasus’s Arms.1The Pegasus’s legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon the sign-board, the Peg…

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@vivids Mar 8, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #12/147

I asked her if she would know how to define a horse tomorrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when she was asked. You woul…

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@vivids Feb 23, 2026, 12:35 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #11/147

6Then, came the experienced chaplain of the jail,7with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people wouldresort to low haunts, hidden from t…

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@vivids Feb 12, 2026, 1:41 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #10/147

CHAPTER 5The Key-noteCOKETOWN, to which Messrs Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note…

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@vivids Feb 9, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #9/147

The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of today, though in itself a trifling one, a…

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@vivids Jan 28, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #8/147

Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. They were right; they had no business to do anyt…

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@vivids Jan 20, 2026, 7:16 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #7/147

CHAPTER 4Mr BounderbyNOTbeing Mrs Grundy, who wasMr Bounderby?Why, Mr Bounderby was as near being Mr Gradgrind’s bosom friend, as a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach that spiritual relat…

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@vivids Jan 7, 2026, 9:16 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #6/147

The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray. A flag, floating from the summit of the temple, procla…

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