Charles Dickens
HARD TIMES
(Illustrated)
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4557-4
Table of Contents
Chapter I. The One Thing Needful
Chapter II. Murdering the Innocents
Chapter VI. Sleary’s Horsemanship
Chapter XIV. The Great Manufacturer
Chapter XV. Father and Daughter
Chapter I. Effects in the Bank
Chapter II. Mr. James Harthouse
Chapter IX. Hearing the Last of It
Chapter X. Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase
Chapter I. Another Thing Needful
Book the First.
Sowing
Chapter I.
The One Thing Needful
‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!’
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker’s square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster’s sleeve. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s voice, which was inflexible, dry, and