Nicholas Nickleby: resumen de Chapter 60

Qué sucede

1. Ralph visits the imprisoned Squeers, who threatens to name him and reveals that the will benefiting Madeline survives.
2. Ralph offers support in exchange for silence, but Squeers insists on protecting himself if the case turns against him.
3. Tim Linkinwater brings the exhausted Ralph to the brothers, where Ralph welcomes news of the persecuted boy’s death.
4. Brooker steps forward and reveals that the dead boy is Ralph’s only son.
5. Brooker explains Ralph’s secret marriage and his own scheme to hide the child at Squeers’s school under the name Smike.
6. Ralph disappears during a brief darkness, and the brothers decide to send someone to his house.

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En qué fijarte

The disclosure overturns Ralph’s joy at the boy’s death. His cruelty toward someone he associates with his nephew becomes cruelty toward his own child.

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