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ALTHOUGH Mr. Gradgrind did not take after Blue Beard, his room was quite a blue chamber1 in its abundance of blue books. Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits. In that charmed apartment, the most complicated social questions were cast up, got into exact totals, and finally settled - if those concerned could only have been brought to know it. As if an astronomical2 observatory3 should be made without any windows, and the astronomer4 within should arrange the starry5 universe solely6 by pen, ink, and paper, so Mr. Gradgrind, in his Observatory (and there are many like it), had no need to cast an eye upon the teeming7 myriads8 of human beings around him, but could settle all their destinies on a slate9, and wipe out all their tears with one dirty little bit of sponge.
To this Observatory, then: a stern room, with a deadly statistical10 clock in it, which measured every second with a beat like a rap upon a coffin-lid; Louisa repaired on the appointed morning. A window looked towards Coketown; and when she sat down near her father's table, she saw the high chimneys and the long tracts11 of smoke looming12 in the heavy distance gloomily.
'My dear Louisa,' said her father, 'I prepared you last night to give me your serious attention in the conversation we are now going to have together. You have been so well trained, and you do, I am happy to say, so much justice to the education you have received, that I have perfect confidence in your good sense. You are not

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n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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astronomer
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perfectly
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invalid
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codicil
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