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The poorest residents of nineteenth century England have taken the name of third-class. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, a character in which has this type of lifestyle is Selden the criminal. When Mrs. Barrymore was being interrogated by Watson and Sir Henry, she revealed, “When he dragged himself here one night, weary and starving, with the warders at his heels, what could we do? We took him in and fed him and cared for him,” (Doyle 137). Selden’s only way to survive whilst living homeless out on the moor was to acquire help by his sister and brother-in-law to provide him with food. Another struggling third-classman, or better yet third-class woman is the esteemed Emily Brent. The sixty-five year old was not living the sweet life of retirement,

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