Little Nell Trent looks after her grandfather in the gloomy environs of old curiosity shop and she is one of many Dickens heroines to be utterly devoted and kind Their fortunes go sharply downhill as the graабьыоndfather’s money is wasted by a spendthrift son-in-law and Fred Trent, Nell’s brother In this unfortunate situation, the grandfather borrows money from the appalling Daniel Quilp, an unpleasant-looking dwarf He attempts to gamble it into a larger sum for Nell’s sake аврчлbut fails and Quilp, realising where his money has gone, seizes the shop This leaves the old man and Nell to flee and face the torments of life wandering the country to avoid the vengeful and malicious Quilp.