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Chapter VII: Book THE SECOND: Riches

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1. Fellow Travellers

2. Mrs General

3. On the Road

4. A Letter from Little Dorrit

5. Something Wrong Somewhere

6. Something Right Somewhere

7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism

8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’

9. Appearance and Disappearance

10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken

11. A Letter from Little Dorrit

12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden

13. The Progress of an Epidemic

14. Taking Advice

15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together

16. Getting on

17. Missing

18. A Castle in the Air

19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air

20. Introduces the next

21. The History of a Self-Tormentor

22. Who Passes by this Road so late?

23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams

24. The Evening of a Long Day

25. The Chief Butler Resigns the Seals of Office

26. Reaping the Whirlwind

27. The Pupil of the Marshalsea

28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea

29. A Plea in the Marshalsea

30. Closing in

31. Closed

32. Going

33. Going!

34. Gone

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, by Charles Dickens

CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

CHAPTER 1 --- Introduces all the Rest

CHAPTER 2 --- Of Mr. Ralph Nickleby, and his Establishments, and his Undertakings, and of a great Joint Stock Company of vast national Importance

CHAPTER 3 --- Mr. Ralph Nickleby receives Sad Tidings of his Brother, but bears up nobly against the Intelligence communicated to him. The Reader is informed how he liked Nicholas, who is herein introduced, and how kindly he proposed to make his Fortune at once.

CHAPTER 4 --- Nicholas and his Uncle (to secure the Fortune without loss of time) wait upon Mr. Wackford Squeers, the Yorkshire Schoolmaster

CHAPTER 5 --- Nicholas starts for Yorkshire. Of his Leave-taking and his Fellow-Travellers, and what befell them on the Road

CHAPTER 6 --- In which the Occurrence of the Accident mentioned in the last Chapter, affords an Opportunity to a couple of Gentlemen to tell Stories against each other

CHAPTER 7 --- Mr. and Mrs. Squeers at Home

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