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LITTLE

DORRIT

Charles Dickens

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Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

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CONTENTS
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BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY........................................................11
Chapter 1. Sun and Shadow...............................................................12
Chapter 2. Fellow Travellers ..............................................................31
Chapter 3. Home...................................................................................49
Chapter 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream...........................................68
Chapter 5. Family Affairs....................................................................73
Chapter 6. The Father of the Marshalsea.........................................89
Chapter 7. The Child of the Marshalsea .........................................104
Chapter 8. The Lock ..........................................................................119
Chapter 9. Little Mother....................................................................135
Chapter 10. Containing the whole Science of
Government.........................................................................................154
Chapter 11. Let Loose........................................................................182
Chapter 12. Bleeding Heart Yard ....................................................197
Chapter 13. Patriarchal .....................................................................210
Chapter 14. Little Dorrit’s Party ......................................................241
Chapter 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream...........................258
Chapter 16. Nobody’s Weakness......................................................271
Chapter 17. Nobody’s Rival ..............................................................290
Chapter 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover......................................................303
Chapter 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or

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three Relations ....................................................................................317
Chapter 20. Moving in Society .........................................................333
Chapter 21. Mr Merdle’s Complaint................................................353
Chapter 22. A Puzzle..........................................................................365
Chapter 23. Machinery in Motion....................................................378
Chapter 24. Fortune-Telling.............................................................401
Chapter 25. Conspirators and Others..............................................424
Chapter 26. Nobody’s State of Mind................................................438
Chapter 27. Five-and-Twenty...........................................................457
Chapter 28. Nobody’s Disappearance .............................................475
Chapter 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming.............................486
Chapter 30. The Word of a Gentleman ...........................................498
Chapter 31. Spirit ...............................................................................520
Chapter 32. More Fortune-Telling...................................................542
Chapter 33. Mrs Merdle’s Complaint ..............................................555
Chapter 34. A Shoal of Barnacles ....................................................570
Chapter 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little
Dorrit’s Hand.......................................................................................584
Chapter 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan ........................603
BOOK THE SECOND: RICHES.....................................................614
Chapter 1. Fellow Travellers ............................................................615
Chapter 2. Mrs General .....................................................................638
Chapter 3. On the Road.....................................................................645

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Chapter 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit ............................................667
Chapter 5. Something Wrong Somewhere.....................................672
Chapter 6. Something Right Somewhere.......................................694
Chapter 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism .............................................715
Chapter 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that
‘It Never Does’.....................................................................................731
Chapter 9. Appearance and Disappearance...................................748
Chapter 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken ....................770
Chapter 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit ..........................................781
Chapter 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is
holden...................................................................................................789
Chapter 13. The Progress of an Epidemic......................................810
Chapter 14. Taking Advice................................................................832
Chapter 15. No Just Cause or Impediment why these
Two Persons should not be joined together ...................................848
Chapter 16. Getting on.......................................................................871
Chapter 17. Missing............................................................................881
Chapter 18. A Castle in the Air.........................................................895
Chapter 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air........................905
Chapter 20. Introduces the next.......................................................927
Chapter 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor................................941
Chapter 22. Who passes by this Road so late?...............................954
Chapter 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional
Promise, respecting her Dreams......................................................964

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Chapter 24. The Evening of a Long Day.........................................982
Chapter 25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of
Office.....................................................................................................997
Chapter 26. Reaping the Whirlwind..............................................1010
Chapter 27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea .....................................1023
Chapter 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea ...........................1043
Chapter 29. A Plea in the Marshalsea ...........................................1069
Chapter 30. Closing in......................................................................1081
Chapter 31. Closed ...........................................................................1114
Chapter 32. Going.............................................................................1127
Chapter 33. Going! ...........................................................................1138
Chapter 34. Gone..............................................................................1153

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PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITION

have been occupied with this story, during many working

hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I

could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express

themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not

unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a

more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them

during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that

the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the

pattern finished.

If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the

Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the

common experience of an Englishman, without presuming to

mention the unimportant fact of my having done that violence to

good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of

Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that

extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated

after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank,

and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to

plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad

design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly

religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has

been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public

examination of late Directors of a Royal British Bank. But, I

submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on all these

counts, if need be, and to accept the assurance (on good authority)

that nothing like them was ever known in this land. Some of my

readers may have an interest in being informed whether or no any

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portions of the Marshalsea Prison are yet standing. I did not know,

myself, until the sixth of this present month, when I went to look. I

found the outer front courtyard, often mentioned here,

metamorphosed into a butter shop; and I then almost gave up

every brick of the jail for lost. Wandering, however, down a certain

adjacent ‘Angel Court, leading to Bermondsey’, I came to

‘Marshalsea Place:’ the houses in which I recognised, not only as

the great block of the former prison, but as preserving the rooms

that arose in my mind’s-eye when I became Little Dorrit’s

biographer. The smallest boy I ever conversed with, carrying the

largest baby I ever saw, offered a supernaturally intelligent

explanation of the locality in its old uses, and was very nearly

correct. How this young Newton (for such I judge him to be) came

by his information, I don’t know; he was a quarter of a century too

young to know anything about it of himself. I pointed to the

window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her

father lived so long, and asked him what was the name of the

lodger who tenanted that apartment at present? He said, ‘Tom

Pythick.’ I asked him who was Tom Pythick? and he said, ‘Joe

Pythick’s uncle.’

A little further on, I found the older and smaller wall, which

used to enclose the pent-up inner prison where nobody was put,

except for ceremony. But, whosoever goes into Marshalsea Place,

turning out of Angel Court, leading to Bermondsey, will find his

feet on the very paving-stones of the extinct Marshalsea jail; will

see its narrow yard to the right and to the left, very little altered if

at all, except that the walls were lowered when the place got free;

will look upon rooms in which the debtors lived; and will stand

among the crowding ghosts of many miserable years.

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In the Preface to Bleak House I remarked that I had never had

so many readers. In the Preface to its next successor, Little Dorrit,

I have still to repeat the same words. Deeply sensible of the

affection and confidence that have grown up between us, I add to

this Preface, as I added to that, May we meet again!

London

May 1857

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