Little Dorrit Book 2 Chapter 28

In which we find Mr Clennam enduring the isolating confines of the Marshalsea prison, where he receives a surprising and peculiar visitor from the government office, and later confronts the insolent Rigaud, whose presence stirs unpleasant revelations and memories. Through these encounters, the sombre atmosphere thickens, laying bare the unyielding shadows cast by society’s humbug and the bitter consequences that imprisonment exacts upon a man’s spirit.