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Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
2 I only entreat you to believe, my favourite child, that I have meant to do right.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
3 Not that I want to get rid of the child, any more than I want to thtand in her way.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
4 There was great trouble before it could be made known to Mrs. Gradgrind that her eldest child was there.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5 She was a child now, of fifteen or sixteen; but at no distant day would seem to become a woman all at once.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
6 A space of stunted grass and dry rubbish being between him and the young rabble, he took his eyeglass out of his waistcoat to look for any child he knew by name, and might order off.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
7 Her repetition of this mistake covered Mrs. Sparsit with modest confusion; but indeed, she said, it seemed so natural to say Miss Gradgrind: whereas, to persuade herself that the young lady whom she had had the happiness of knowing from a child could be really and truly Mrs. Bounderby, she found almost impossible.
Hard TimesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII