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Re the article on Cuthbert, Dickens uses intercourse to mean ' communication between people ' in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge says I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse to the third Spirit.
Re the article on Cuthbert, Dickens uses intercourse to mean 'communication between people' in A Christmas Carol.