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The daughter of a circus performer, Sissy's background is of the lowest quality, but her imagination and her heart are of the highest, thanks to her father's care when she was little. This father does desert her when she is still a young girl, leaving her to be adopted by the Gradgrinds, but his education has made its mark on her, and nothing Mr. Gradgrind can try to teach her will undo it. She becomes the guardian and the savior of the Gradgrind family: when Louisa nearly succumbs to Harthouse's proposal and when Tom is nearly arrested, Sissy saves the day, saving their lives and their hearts.
Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe Quotes in Hard Times
The Hard Times quotes below are all either spoken by Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe or refer to Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 6
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‘O my dear father, my good kind father, where are you gone? You are gone to try to do me some good, I know! You are gone away for my sake, I am sure! And how miserable and helpless you will be without me, poor, poor father, until you come back!'
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Book 3, Chapter 1
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In the innocence of her brave affection, and the brimming up of her old devoted spirit, the once deserted girl shone like a beautiful light upon the darkness of the other.
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Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe Quotes in Hard Times
The Hard Times quotes below are all either spoken by Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe or refer to Cecilia (Sissy) Jupe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 1, Chapter 6
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‘O my dear father, my good kind father, where are you gone? You are gone to try to do me some good, I know! You are gone away for my sake, I am sure! And how miserable and helpless you will be without me, poor, poor father, until you come back!'
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Book 3, Chapter 1
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In the innocence of her brave affection, and the brimming up of her old devoted spirit, the once deserted girl shone like a beautiful light upon the darkness of the other.
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