Nicholas Nickleby
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You are Nicholas Nickleby, arriving at Dotheboys Hall as its new undermaster to find starved boys and a silent, limping drudge named Smike gathering the slates. Wackford and Mrs Squeers treat hunger and injury as discipline already paid for, and your objections earn nothing but a warning to mind the terms you were hired under. You slip Smike your own bread; weeks later, he runs. Days later, Mrs Squeers drags him back bound in the rain, as Squeers orders every boy assembled to watch the punishment begin.
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- The Runaway at DotheboysDotheboys Hall