Little Dorrit Book 2 Chapter 32

In which we witness the restless Mr Pancks, sorely burdened by self-reproach and numerical certainties, grow increasingly insubordinate towards his complacent and slippery employer, the Patriarch, whose benevolence seems more a masque than reality. With a boldness born of desperation, Pancks confronts the Bleeding Heart Yard’s idolatrous figurehead in a public and irreverent display that sets the once serene neighbourhood abuzz with astonishment and laughter.