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Hard Times | Book III, Chapters 4-5: Summary and Analysis

Chapter 4: Lost
Chapter 5: Found

Summary
Despite his domestic difficulties, Mr. Bounderby remains intent on investigating the bank robbery. Hoping it will crack the case open, Mr. Bounderby has a “WANTED” poster for the missing Stephen Blackpool printed up in great black letters and pasted all over town before daybreak. The agitator Slackbridge denounces Blackpool with his usual overheated language, adding to his former denunciations of Stephen the names of thief and plunderer.

On the same evening that workers cluster around the posters in...



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