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Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nRIVERHEAD BOOKS  \na member of  \nPenguin Putnam Inc.  \n375 Hudson Street  \nNew York, NY 10014  \nCopyright © 2002 by Sarah Waters  \nAll rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without  \npermission.  \nPublished simultaneously in Canada.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nWaters, Sarah, date.  \nFingersmith / Sarah Waters.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nISBN: 9781101057025  \n1. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.  \nPR6073 .A828 F  \n823’.914—dc21  \nThis book is printed on acid-free paper.  \n[http://us.penguingroup.com](http://us.penguingroup.com)  \nVersion_3  \nTo Sally O-J  \nPart One  \n1.  \nMy name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. People called me Sue. I know the year I was born in, but for many years I did not know the date, and took my birthday at Christmas. I believe I am an orphan. My mother I know is dead. But I never saw her, she was nothing to me. I was Mrs Sucksby’s child, if I was anyone’s; and for father I had Mr Ibbs, who kept the locksmith’s shop, at Lant Street, in the Borough, near to the Thames.  \nThis is the first time I remember thinking about the world and my place init.  \nThere was a girl named Flora, who paid Mrs Sucksby a penny to take me begging at a play. People used to like to take me begging then, for the sake of my bright hair; and Flora being also very fair, she would pass me off asher sister. The theatre she took me to, on the night I am thinking of now, was the Surrey, St George’s Circus. The play was Oliver Twist. I remember it as very terrible. I remember the tilt of the gallery, and the drop to the pit. I remember a drunken woman catching at the ribbons of my dress. I remember the flares, that made the stage very lurid; and the roaring of the actors, the shrieking of the crowd. They had one of the characters in a red wig and whiskers: I was certain he was a monkey in a coat, he capered so. Worse still was the snarling, pink-eyed dog; worst of all was that dog’s master—Bill Sykes, the fancy-man. When he struck the poor girl Nancy with his club, the people all down our row got up. There was a boot thrown at the stage. A woman beside me cried out,  \n‘Oh, you beast! You villain! And her worth forty of a bully like you!’  \nI don’t know if it was the people getting up—which made the gallery seem to heave about; or the shrieking woman; or the sight of Nancy, lying","cbCaigUfzdQ8OfFa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigUfzdQ8OfFa","pdf",5282835,606,"English","# Part One\n## Chapter 1\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3\n## Chapter 4\n## Chapter 5\n## Chapter 6\n# Part Two\n## Chapter 7\n## Chapter 8\n## Chapter 9\n## Chapter 10\n## Chapter 11\n## Chapter 12\n## Chapter 13\n# Part Three\n## Chapter 14\n## Chapter 15\n## Chapter 16\n## Chapter 17","[{\"question\":\"Who is Susan Trinder in the opening chapter?\",\"answer\":\"In these early days, her name is Susan Trinder, and people call her Sue. She explains that she knows the year she was born but not the date.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Susan describe her family situation?\",\"answer\":\"She believes she is an orphan. 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