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Guppy is treading dangerously!! Does he realize?

Richard- such a scoundrel!

I think I’m managing to keep everyone straight. Dickens is drip feeding details that require vigilance to pick up on?

“It was grand to see how the wind awoke, and bent the trees, and drove the rain before it like a cloud of smoke; and to hear solemn thunder, and to see the lightening; and while thinking with awe of the tremendous powers by which our little lives are encompassed, to consider how beneficent they are, and how upon the smallest flower and leaf there was already a freshness poured from all this seeming rage,…” p254

Ugh, Mr. Turveydrop. 🙄
These names though are always entertaining.

And even more characters! Jo and Jenny are just heartbreaking. Sentimental but in a good way.

Dickens makes such astute observations and with such eloquence. In awe sometimes. It’s also very amenable to audio with Miriam Margolyes.

So many characters!