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Although
Mr.
Gradgrind
did
not
take
after
Blue
Beard
,
his
room
was
quite
a
blue
chamber
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
astronomical
observatory
should
be
made
without
any
windows
,
and
the
astronomer
within
should
arrange
the
starry
universe
solely
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
teeming
myriads
of
human
beings
around
him
,
but
could
settle
all
their
destinies
on
a
slate
,
and
wipe
out
all
their
tears
with
one
dirty
little
bit
of
sponge
.
To
this
Observatory
,
then
:
a
stern
room
,
with
a
deadly
statistical
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
tracts
of
smoke
looming
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
impulsive
,
you
are
not
romantic
,
you
are
accustomed
to
view
everything
from
the
strong
dispassionate
ground
of
reason
and
calculation
.
From
that
ground
alone
,
I
know
you
will
view
and
consider
what
I
am
going
to
communicate
.
'
He
waited
,
as
if
he
would
have
been
glad
that
she
said
something
.
But
she
said
never
a
word
.
'
Louisa
,
my
dear
,
you
are
the
subject
of
a
proposal
of
marriage
that
has
been
made
to
me
.
'
Again
he
waited
,
and
again
she
answered
not
one
word
.
This
so
far
surprised
him
,
as
to
induce
him
gently
to
repeat
,
'
a
proposal
of
marriage
,
my
dear
.
'
To
which
she
returned
,
without
any
visible
emotion
whatever
:
'
I
hear
you
,
father
.
I
am
attending
,
I
assure
you
.
'
'
Well
!
'
said
Mr.
Gradgrind
,
breaking
into
a
smile
,
after
being
for
the
moment
at
a
loss
,
'
you
are
even
more
dispassionate
than
I
expected
,
Louisa
.
Or
,
perhaps
,
you
are
not
unprepared
for
the
announcement
I
have
it
in
charge
to
make
?
'
'
I
can
not
say
that
,
father
,
until
I
hear
it
.
Prepared
or
unprepared
,
I
wish
to
hear
it
all
from
you
.
I
wish
to
hear
you
state
it
to
me
,
father
.
'
