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Barrett 's tongue , he gathered , had already been busy ; he was looked at askance by the dwellers of the square ; and he judged it better , until he should be able to obtain other help , to make his purchases of provisions a little farther afield rather than at the small shops of the immediate neighbourhood . Gilmartin remains as a special adviser to a committee of Merck directors . In the course of the semester , we will read a series of nineteenth-century novels alongside their twentieth-century counterparts in order to ask a number of difficult literary , historical , and theoretical questions : why have so many present-day authors found it essential to take up the politics and poetics of nineteenth-century fiction ?