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Updated: June 2, 2025
As a study of social and industrial life in England in the manufacturing districts fifty years ago, "Hard Times" will always be valuable, though allowance must be made here as elsewhere for the novelist's tendency to exaggeration exaggeration of virtue no less than of vice or weakness. In Josiah Bounderby and Stephen Blackpool this characteristic is pronounced.
'Just wait a bit, retorted Bounderby; 'you have said your say, I believe. I heard you out; hear me out, if you please. Don't make yourself a spectacle of unfairness as well as inconsistency, because, although I am sorry to see Tom Gradgrind reduced to his present position, I should be doubly sorry to see him brought so low as that.
If she'd been Maizie Bounderby, with two lines in each hand and one in her teeth, she couldn't have done more to hook that old stock-broker. She cooked little special dishes for his dyspepsy to play with, and set with him on the piazza evenings, and laughed at his jokes, and the land knows what.
Bounderby might take the opportunity of seeing how the Hands got on in those parts, and whether they, too, required to be fed with gold spoons; the happy pair departed for the railroad. The bride, in passing down-stairs, dressed for her journey, found Tom waiting for her flushed, either with his feelings, or the vinous part of the breakfast.
'I wish with all my heart, sir, said Mrs. Sparsit, in a highly superior manner; somehow she seemed, in a moment, to have established a right to pity him ever afterwards; 'that you may be in all respects very happy. 'Well, ma'am, returned Bounderby, with some resentment in his tone: which was clearly lowered, though in spite of himself, 'I am obliged to you. I hope I shall be.
The enlightenment has been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine. I think there are Bounderby, you will be surprised to hear me say this I think there are qualities in Louisa, which which have been harshly neglected, and and a little perverted.
Harthouse, however, only felt bored, and took the earliest opportunity to explain to Mrs. Bounderby that he really had no opinions, and that he was going in for her father's opinions, because he might as well back them as anything else. "The side that can prove anything in a line of units, tens, hundreds, and thousands, Mrs.
Bounderby, was a word of ceremony, rather exacting consideration for herself in the use, than honouring him. 'I'm not going to take him at once; he is to finish his educational cramming before then, said Bounderby. 'By the Lord Harry, he'll have enough of it, first and last!
The return he makes her, within my observation, is a very poor one. What she has done for him demands his constant love and gratitude, not his ill- humour and caprice. Careless fellow as I am, I am not so indifferent, Mrs. Bounderby, as to be regardless of this vice in your brother, or inclined to consider it a venial offence. The wood floated before her, for her eyes were suffused with tears.
No alarm takes place, till this chap, Bitzer, turns out this morning, and begins to open and prepare the offices for business. Then, looking at Tom's safe, he sees the door ajar, and finds the lock forced, and the money gone. 'Where is Tom, by the by? asked Harthouse, glancing round. 'He has been helping the police, said Bounderby, 'and stays behind at the Bank.
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