Bounderby tells his horror stories of being born in a ditch or having lived the first ten years of his life as a vagabond. Gradgrind has a very emotional temperament and she usually faints whenever Mr. He calls himself a "self-made man" and he always tells his friends (the Gradgrinds, primarily) stories of how he grew up in the most wretched conditions. He has an imposing figure and his entire body is oversized, swelled and overweight. Gradgrind's closest friend, and just like Gradgrind he is a man "perfectly devoid of sentiment." Bounderby is very wealthy from his trade as a banker, a merchant and a manufacturer among other things. Sissy is taught that she must not "fancy" and that she is "to be in all things regulated and governed by fact." He advises Cecilia to refer to her father as a "farrier" (the person who shoes a horse) or perhaps, a "veterinary surgeon." Sissy Jupe is a slow learner, among the group of stragglers who admit that they would dare to carpet a room with representations of flowers because she is "fond" of them. Jupe's father is involved in a horse-riding circus and this is not respectablein Gradgrind's opinion. Gradgrind corrects her that her name is Cecilia regardless of what her father calls her. Gradgrind is a man of "facts and calculations." He identifies a student, called Girl number twenty, who replies that her name is Sissy Jupe.
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