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Little Nell

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Little Nell
meek little girl reared by grandfather. [Br. Lit.: The Old Curiosity Shop]
See : Naïveté

Little Nell
death scene of sweet child epitomizes sentimentality. [Br. Lit.: Old Curiosity Shop]


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There seemed an inexhaustible source of humor and pathos in his work, which I now find choked and dry; I cannot laugh any more at Pickwick or Sam Weller, or weep for little Nell or Paul Dombey; their jokes, their griefs, seemed to me to be turned on, and to have a mechanical action.
There's no hurry, little Nell, no hurry at all,' said Quilp.
 
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