300 pages in, Dickens, as Virginia Woolf observed, keeps piling more characters on the fire. It’s a blazing bonfire by now with several shadowy characters up to something. It’s not exactly clear what their up to, but it’s clear that they are revolving, ever closer, to the protracted Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. Snagsby, the street urchin, Jo, Lady Dedlock, Mr. Bucket, and on and on.
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