Re: Convicts
Charles Dickens (cdickens@RMPLC.CO.UK)
Thu, 9 Oct 1997 16:37:06 -0100
My dear Miss Butterfield,
"Great Expectations," I know, has a complicated plot. All is explained
further on in the book, so do please keep reading, and try to remember what
you have read. But I shall allow myself to give you some very slight
foretaste of what is to come. Magwitch has learned to hate Compeyson
because he was lured into crimes by Compeyson who, when they were detected,
used his gentlemanly bearing and elegance to persuade the authorities that
it was the "varmint" Magwitch who was chiefly responsible. As a result,
Compeyson is given a lenient sentence, Magwitch a harsh one. Hence
Magwitch's rage.
Faithfully yours,
Charles Dicvkens
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At 09:55 09/10/97 UT, STEVE WOODHURST wrote:
>Dear Sir,
>
>I have been reading about the 2 convicts in "Great Expectations" and wondered
>what has been going on between them; why they hate each other so much and why
>they were in the prison hulks.
>
>Please enlighten me.
>
>Yours faithfully,
>
>Hannah Butterfield 10x
>
>
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