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

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hard Times: Book 2, Chapters 1 - 6

Book 2: Reaping

Chapter 1: Effects In The Bank

It is a hot midsummer day and "Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its
own, which appeared impervious to the sun's rays." As always, the millowners
complained that they were by being ruined by being "required to send labouring
children to school; they were ruined, when inspectors were appointed to look
into their works; they were ruined, when such inspectors considered it
doubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their
machinery; they were utterly ...

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