How does Dickens portray the working class in
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How does Dickens portray the working class in
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And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous
masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself
wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner, and nothing grew but moss and
furze, and coarse rank grass. Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the
desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest
night
"What place is this?" asked Scrooge.
"A place where Miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth" returned the Spirit. "But they know me. See!"
A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. Passing through the wall of mud and
stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire. An old, old man and woman, with their children
and their children's children, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire.
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Ineed . i need to write a story with this words. vapid, reverie, chastity, petty, invariably, posterity, axiom, pugnacious, bourgeoisie, knell
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English, 22.06.2019 06:00
Something you may do if the weather's nice on sunday. -something you might not want to do this evening. -something you could go on aaturday evening. -something you could wear to a party. -somebody you might see in the next couple of days. -a subject you could study at college or university. -somewhere you might go on holiday .
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