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Quotation from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
“I think there’s a pain somewhere in the room”
Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #786 text)
On her deathbed, the feeble Mrs. Gradgrind answers Louisa's question whether she is in pain; the line shows a woman so long talked down that she can no longer claim her own feelings.
Citation: "I think there’s a pain somewhere in the room" — Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #786 text). (id hard-times-q6)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
