Mr. George and the Rouncewells

From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The trooper George Rouncewell and his ironmaster brother represent two paths of Victorian masculinity—military nostalgia and industrial modernity—both contrasted against the dying Dedlock aristocracy.
Chapter 21 (The Smallweed Family)

George's shooting gallery and his entanglement with the Smallweeds.

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Chapter 63 (Steel and Iron)

The ironmaster brother's Northern industrial world set against Chesney Wold's decay.

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