Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend

Clarendon Edition

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Sloppy

Orphan taken in by Betty Higden. Boffin hires him to watch the dust mounds. There is a hint at the end of the novel of a possible marriage between Sloppy and Jenny Wren.

Sloppy, Betty higden and the children.

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