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Mr.
Gradgrind
walked
homeward
from
the
school
,
in
a
state
of
considerable
satisfaction
.
It
was
his
school
,
and
he
intended
it
to
be
a
model
.
He
intended
every
child
in
it
to
be
a
model
--
just
as
the
young
Gradgrinds
were
all
models
.
There
were
five
young
Gradgrinds
,
and
they
were
models
every
one
.
They
had
been
lectured
at
,
from
their
tenderest
years
;
coursed
,
like
little
hares
.
Almost
as
soon
as
they
could
run
alone
,
they
had
been
made
to
run
to
the
lecture-room
.
The
first
object
with
which
they
had
an
association
,
or
of
which
they
had
a
remembrance
,
was
a
large
black
board
with
a
dry
Ogre
chalking
ghastly
white
figures
on
it
.
Not
that
they
knew
,
by
name
or
nature
,
anything
about
an
Ogre
Fact
forbid
!
I
only
use
the
word
to
express
a
monster
in
a
lecturing
castle
,
with
Heaven
knows
how
many
heads
manipulated
into
one
,
taking
childhood
captive
,
and
dragging
it
into
gloomy
statistical
dens
by
the
hair
.
No
little
Gradgrind
had
ever
seen
a
face
in
the
moon
;
it
was
up
in
the
moon
before
it
could
speak
distinctly
.
No
little
Gradgrind
had
ever
learnt
the
silly
jingle
,
Twinkle
,
twinkle
,
little
star
;
how
I
wonder
what
you
are
!
No
little
Gradgrind
had
ever
known
wonder
on
the
subject
,
each
little
Gradgrind
having
at
five
years
old
dissected
the
Great
Bear
like
a
Professor
Owen
,
and
driven
Charles
's
Wain
like
a
locomotive
engine-driver
.
No
little
Gradgrind
had
ever
associated
a
cow
in
a
field
with
that
famous
cow
with
the
crumpled
horn
who
tossed
the
dog
who
worried
the
cat
who
killed
the
rat
who
ate
the
malt
,
or
with
that
yet
more
famous
cow
who
swallowed
Tom
Thumb
:
it
had
never
heard
of
those
celebrities
,
and
had
only
been
introduced
to
a
cow
as
a
graminivorous
ruminating
quadruped
with
several
stomachs
.
To
his
matter-of-fact
home
,
which
was
called
Stone
Lodge
,
Mr.
Gradgrind
directed
his
steps
.
He
had
virtually
retired
from
the
wholesale
hardware
trade
before
he
built
Stone
Lodge
,
and
was
now
looking
about
for
a
suitable
opportunity
of
making
an
arithmetical
figure
in
Parliament
.
Stone
Lodge
was
situated
on
a
moor
within
a
mile
or
two
of
a
great
town
--
called
Coketown
in
the
present
faithful
guide-book
.
A
very
regular
feature
on
the
face
of
the
country
,
Stone
Lodge
was
.
Not
the
least
disguise
toned
down
or
shaded
off
that
uncompromising
fact
in
the
landscape
.
A
great
square
house
,
with
a
heavy
portico
darkening
the
principal
windows
,
as
its
master
's
heavy
brows
overshadowed
his
eyes
.
A
calculated
,
cast
up
,
balanced
,
and
proved
house
.
Six
windows
on
this
side
of
the
door
,
six
on
that
side
;
a
total
of
twelve
in
this
wing
,
a
total
of
twelve
in
the
other
wing
;
four-and-twenty
carried
over
to
the
back
wings
.
A
lawn
and
garden
and
an
infant
avenue
,
all
ruled
straight
like
a
botanical
account-book
.
Gas
and
ventilation
,
drainage
and
water-service
,
all
of
the
primest
quality
.
Iron
clamps
and
girders
,
fire-proof
from
top
to
bottom
;
mechanical
lifts
for
the
housemaids
,
with
all
their
brushes
and
brooms
;
everything
that
heart
could
desire
.
Everything
?
Well
,
I
suppose
so
.
The
little
Gradgrinds
had
cabinets
in
various
departments
of
science
too
.
They
had
a
little
conchological
cabinet
,
and
a
little
metallurgical
cabinet
,
and
a
little
mineralogical
cabinet
;
and
the
specimens
were
all
arranged
and
labelled
,
and
the
bits
of
stone
and
ore
looked
as
though
they
might
have
been
broken
from
the
parent
substances
by
those
tremendously
hard
instruments
their
own
names
;
and
,
to
paraphrase
the
idle
legend
of
Peter
Piper
,
who
had
never
found
his
way
into
their
nursery
,
If
the
greedy
little
Gradgrinds
grasped
at
more
than
this
,
what
was
it
for
good
gracious
goodness
'
sake
,
that
the
greedy
little
Gradgrinds
grasped
it
!
Their
father
walked
on
in
a
hopeful
and
satisfied
frame
of
mind
.
He
was
an
affectionate
father
,
after
his
manner
;
but
he
would
probably
have
described
himself
(
if
he
had
been
put
,
like
Sissy
Jupe
,
upon
a
definition
)
as
'
an
eminently
practical
'
father
.
He
had
a
particular
pride
in
the
phrase
eminently
practical
,
which
was
considered
to
have
a
special
application
to
him
.
Whatsoever
the
public
meeting
held
in
Coketown
,
and
whatsoever
the
subject
of
such
meeting
,
some
Coketowner
was
sure
to
seize
the
occasion
of
alluding
to
his
eminently
practical
friend
Gradgrind
.
This
always
pleased
the
eminently
practical
friend
.
He
knew
it
to
be
his
due
,
but
his
due
was
acceptable
.
