Part 16 (1/2)
Both rose, red and disconcerted But Louisa looked at her father with more boldness than Thoave himself up to be taken home like a machine
”In the narind, leading each away by a hand; ”what do you do here?”
”Wanted to see what it was like,” returned Louisa shortly
”What it was like?”
”Yes, father”
There was an air of jaded sullenness in theh the dissatisfaction of her face, there was a light with nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved ihtened its expression Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful flashes, which had soes on a blind face groping its way
”You! Thomas and you, to whom the circle of the sciences is open, Thomas and you, who may be said to be replete with facts, Thomas and you, who have been trained to rind ”In this degraded position! I am a time,” said Louisa
”Tired? Of what?” asked the astonished father
”I don't knohat--of everything, I think”
When they reached horind, after telling her where he had found the children:
”I should as soon have expected to findpoetry”
”Dear rind ”How can you, Louisa and Thomas!
I wonder at you As if, with o and look at the shells and s provided for you, instead of circuses!” said Mrs Gradgrind ”You knoell as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses What can you possibly want to know of circuses then? I ah to do, if that's what you want With my head in its present state, I couldn't reot to attend to”
”That's the reason!” pouted Louisa
”Don't tellof the sort,” said Mrs Gradgrind ”Go and be soical directly”
After Louisa hadher one evening, and Toreat deal when she was alone:
”Ay, ay? Has resources of her own,” said Harthouse
”Not so overnor had her crammed with all sorts of dry bones and sawdust It's his systeested Harthouse
”His daughter? Ah! and everybody else Why, he formed me that way,”
said Toh,” said To his head ”I mean to say, Mr
Harthouse, that when I first left ho-pan, and knew no more about life than any oyster does”
dickens describes a visit Louisa made to her father's house, and sho little of the true ho was stirred in her heart, as she approached the place, where she should have had a happy childhood