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Jonas’ anger forestalls Tom’s mention of Nadgett (1319).

The cognitive dissonance of the phrase “loquacious frankness” suits Cherry Pecksniff (1295).

Description of Tom’s sister’s singing is really a description of its effect on the listeners (1287).

The red ink foreshadows Jonas‘s murder of Montague (1269).

Jonas and Pecksniff play the confidence game (1260) [e.g. greedy listening].

So Pinch didn’t know why Jonas was fleeing Tigg, and when he knows he can keep it a secret if he murders Tigg (1181-2).

How and why did/would Nadgett orchestrate Tom Pinch’s help in apprehending Jonas Chuzzlewit? Did Martin want to educate Tom (1174)?

Tom is to work amongst books (1140).

In Chp. 38, Dickens shifts from Tom Pinch to Nadgett to Tigg Montague to Jonas Chuzzlewit, all while concealing the contents of Nadgett’s writing from us (111).

Nadgett prefers writing over spoken word: “We never know who’s listening” (1100). Apparently, listening is an action often mangled in the performance.