Those shoes are a little bit too tight.

Chicago, Iowa and Kansas Railroad: Odell, Nebr., to Concordia, Kans., of which 25.53 miles were completed June 30, and the remainder, about 46 miles, was to be completed in August.

To be raced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous.

Instead, our interesting characters are the horrid little villain, Quilp, his henchwench Sally Brass (a nasty, lying, grasping woman), Dick Swiveller, and a servant character Swiveller calls “the Marchioness.”