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Extracts from Literature

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517

The Duel

Sir Mulberry Hawk’s coarse conduct towards Kate Nickleby has awoken a spark of decency in Lord Frederick Verisopht.

518

A True Gentleman of Verona

A young man from the Italian city on the Adige River demonstrates that class has nothing to do with wealth.

519

Wellington’s Secret

The future hero of Waterloo dealt with political ambush as comfortably as he dealt with the military kind.

520

One Last Question

English lawyer Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in place of a French aristocrat.

521

Northumberland

A poem of nostalgia for the sea breezes and yellow gorse of Northumberland.

522

‘Sussex’

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.