When one character in this novel is asked to define a horse, she replies by describing it as a hoofed quadruped. Mrs. Sparsit, resentful of being cast out of a comfortable position, spies on some characters in this novel. After a bank in this novel is robbed, one character suspects either Mrs. Pegler or Stephen Blackpool of doing the deed, the latter because he's been mistreated. One character in this novel realizes his mistake after his daughter returns to him instead of following through on her plans to elope with political aspirant James Harthouse, which is fortunate for him because she has been promised to marry manufacturer Josiah Bounderby. That same character 
When one character in this novel is asked to define a horse, she replies by describing it as a hoofed quadruped. Mrs. Sparsit, resentful of being cast out of a comfortable position, spies on some characters in this novel. After a bank in this novel is robbed, one character suspects either Mrs. Pegler or Stephen Blackpool of doing the deed, the latter because he's been mistreated. One character in this novel realizes his mistake after his daughter returns to him instead of following through on her plans to elope with political aspirant James Harthouse, which is fortunate for him because she has been promised to marry manufacturer Josiah Bounderby. That same character believes that his children have been negatively influenced by daughter of a circus clown Sissy Jupe. For 10 points, name this novel in which Thomas Gradgrind educates his children Louisa and Tom in "hard facts only," a novel by Charles Dickens.
When one character in this novel is asked to define a horse, she replies by describing it as a hoofed quadruped.
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