Hard times 5

Hard times
Stephen Blackpool was a cotton weaver who worked in a factory. He was an honest and simple man. One night he was walking and he found Rachael. They walked along to Rachael’s house. WhenStephen arrived home, he found a woman in his floor. She was her drunk wife.
The next day, he went to work and at lunchtime he spoke with Mr. Bounderby, and he asked him if there was any law to stophis marriage. But Mr. Bounderby said that there was a law to do that, but it cost a lot of money. When he was coming out of Mr. Bounderby’s house, an old woman stopped him and asked if Mr. Bounderbywas strong and healthy, and obviously he answered “yes”. That woman had traveled to Coketown to have a glimpse of him.
Stephen was walking to his house, and when he arrived he found calm, because hiswife was sleeping, and Rachael was taking care about her.
Thomas Gradgrind was seeing that his daughter was growing up, and he told her that tomorrow she would like to speak with her. And herbrother tom told her that he would like to spend some much time with her, if she wanted. The next day, Louisa went to speak with her father, and he told her that Mr. Bounderby wanted to have marriage withher. First she was astonished but she accepted, and eight weeks later they were married.
There was walking a handsome man, expensively dressed, and stranger to Coketown. His name was Mr.Harthouse.Mrs.Sparsit lived there for a year, and she was talking, to Bitzer, a spy, who tell her about the people in the bank, and there was only one who didn’t work well, and he was Tom Gradgring.
Mr.Bounderby, and Mr. Harthouse, started to talk. And Mr. Bounderby said that he won’t give anything to the Hand, because her mother abandoned him, and all he have nowadays, it’s because of his hard work.
Theywere to the drawing room, where there was Louise, Mr. Bounderby’s wife, who appeared cold and ashamed of her husband. They began to speak about the people of the parliaments, but Mr. Harthouse didn’t...