Chapter 36
Esther looks in the mirror after her illness: 'I was very much changed—O very, very much.' Immediately followed by Lady Dedlock's revelation of motherhood.
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From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Esther loses her beauty to smallpox and confronts her changed face in a mirror—a key moment linking her body to the novel's themes of disease, identity, and inheritance.
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