Where is your false, your treacherous, and cursed wife?"
"She's gone forrard to the Police Office," returns Mr Bucket. "You'll see her there, my dear."
"I would like to kiss her!" exclaims Mademoiselle Hortense, panting tigress-like. "You'd bite her, I suspect," says Mr Bucket.
"I would!" making her eyes very large. "I would love to tear her, limb from limb."
"Bless you, darling," says Mr Bucket, with the greatest composure; "I'm fully prepared to hear that. Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ.
Tags: women sarcasm cat-fights
Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
Charles DickensTags: society detection mysteries secrets secrecy detectives family-life families victorian-society gentility hidden-guilt hidden-shame
Oh indeed! Our and the Wilfers' Mutual Friend, my dear.
Charles DickensJanet! Donkeys!
Charles DickensYou don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
Charles DickensTags: our-mutual-friend dickens eugene-wrayburn
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
Charles DickensTags: speech encouragement
His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.
Charles DickensTags: ugliness
Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.
Charles DickensTags: attention nonchalance expertise
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
Charles DickensTags: wonder memory emotion forgetting
Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
Charles DickensTags: change humility leadership adaptability
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