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\nPave the way for a change in Mr Merdle’s manner
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“Pave the way” indicates Dickens’s use of the Notes to consider how one number prepares for future events. “Pave the way,” or a similar instruction using the verb “pave,” appears seven times in the Notes for this novel, indicating Dickens’s attention to careful future-oriented plotting (other examples are found in the Notes for numbers V, VII, XII, XVI, and XVII. See LD.XII.L2 for more on his use of this phrase).
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Dickens will activate this note at the end of the chapter, with a long passage considering Merdle’s “oppressed soul” as he wanders around his house and avoids his butler (LD 390).
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“Pave the way” indicates Dickens’s use of the Notes to consider how one number prepares for future events. “Pave the way,” or a similar instruction using the verb “pave,” appears eight times in the Notes for this novel, indicating Dickens’s attention to careful future-oriented plotting (other examples are found in the Notes for numbers V, VII, XII, XVI, and XVII. See LD.XII.L2 for more on his use of this phrase).
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Dickens will activate this note at the end of the chapter, with a long passage considering Merdle’s “oppressed soul” as he wanders around his house and avoids his butler (LD 390).
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\nThe Great St Bernard? Yes
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Here Dickens finally returns to an idea he had toyed with in a very early reference to the novel in a 1854 letter to Forster: “I have visions of living for half a year or so, in all sorts of inaccessible places, and opening a new book therein. A floating idea of going up above the snow-line in Switzerland, and living in some astonishing convent, hovers about me” (Forster 2.196-7). On January 20, 1856, Dickens would again write to Forster as he was at work on No. V: “Again I am beset by my former notions of a book whereof the whole story shall be on the top of the Great St. Bernard. As I accept and reject ideas for Little Dorrit, it perpetually comes back to me. Two or three years hence, perhaps you’ll find me living with the Monks and the Dogs a whole winter–among the blinding snows that fall about that monastery. I have a serious idea that I shall do it, if I live” (2.197). He told Lavinia Watson on October 7, 1856 that the source for the Great St. Bernard episode was a visit to the Hospice twenty years earlier (Letters 8.201; see note 3). Sucksmith offers a helpful list of the many references to his own experience from Pictures of Italy that Dickens likely drew upon for the Italy portions of Book II (xxxii, fn4).
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\nThe Great St Bernard? Yes
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Here Dickens finally returns to an idea he had toyed with in a very early reference to the novel in a 1854 letter to Forster: “I have visions of living for half a year or so, in all sorts of inaccessible places, and opening a new book therein. A floating idea of going up above the snow-line in Switzerland, and living in some astonishing convent, hovers about me” (Forster 2.196-7). On January 20, 1856, Dickens would again write to Forster as he was at work on No. V: “Again I am beset by my former notions of a book whereof the whole story shall be on the top of the Great St. Bernard. As I accept and reject ideas for Little Dorrit, it perpetually comes back to me. Two or three years hence, perhaps you’ll find me living with the Monks and the Dogs a whole winter–among the blinding snows that fall about that monastery. I have a serious idea that I shall do it, if I live” (2.197). He told Lavinia Watson on October 7, 1856 that the source for the Great St. Bernard episode was a visit to the Hospice a decade earlier (Letters 8.201; see note 3). Sucksmith offers a helpful list of the many references to his own experience from Pictures of Italy that Dickens likely drew upon for the Italy portions of Book II (xxxii, fn4).