Chapter 59 (Esther's Narrative)
Esther discovers her mother dead at the burial-ground gate: 'I saw before me, lying on the step, the mother of the dead child... cold and dead.'
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From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Lady Dedlock dies at the gate of the pauper burial ground where her lover Captain Hawdon lies—the novel's climactic image of fallen aristocracy meeting the urban poor.
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