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#3 in The Dickens of a Summer Readathon.

Wonder if Britons are as slightly embarrassed when Dickens writes dialect as Americans are when Twain does it? Broadie is a Yorkshireman and Dickens has written his lines almost unreadably in a style to suggest what I guess is a heavy accent.