This text is setting in a classroom, it is whitewashed room and the boys and girls are setting in two compact bodies divided up in the centre by narrow interval
Mr. Gradgrind pick on a new pupil, calling her “girl number twenty”, he objects to her name, which must really be Cecilia and them to her father occupation as a horse-rider in a circus, after Mr. Gradgrind ask to the girl the definition of a horse
Bitzer is a student and he is remarkable for his unwholesome pallor as well as his acceptance of a Mr. Gradgrind's system, when Mr. Gradgrind ask him de definition of a horse, he said a perfect definition of a horse composed of a pompous, lifeless terms