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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hard Times: Book 1, Chapters 9 - 16

Chapter 9: Sissy's Progress

Sissy Jupe is having a difficult time between Mrs. Gradgrind and Mr.
M'Choakumchild; she often has the desire to run away. Only the thought that
her father had not really abandoned her, that he would return, and had wished
her to remain at school, keeps her from leaving. The teacher reported that
"she had a very dense head for figures," and that when asked for the first
principle of political economy she had replied, "To do unto others as I would
that they should do unto me." This will not ...

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