Mary Barton is getting to the "good part." I don't know that that is fair to say really. But the book is part murder-mystery, and the murder has finally happened. It is a bit unusual in that most mysteries the murder occurs sooner rather than later. I have about eighteen or nineteen chapters left of this one. I'm hoping to finish it this month.
Quotes from Mary Barton:
As the man who has had his taste educated to love reading, falls devouringly upon books after a long abstinence, so these poor fellows, whose tastes had been left to educate themselves into a liking for tobacco, beer, and similar gratifications, gleamed up at the proposal of the London delegate. Tobacco and drink deaden the pangs of hunger, and make one forget the miserable home, the desolate future.
"Oh! much what all doctors say: he puts a fence on this side, and a fence on that, for fear he should be caught tripping in his judgment.
Orley Farm. I am enjoying it. But it is like a soap opera. There are at least a dozen characters--if not twice that--and there are four or five "main" stories all going at once. I enjoy it for the journey; I haven't decided where the actual destination is.
Quotes from Orley Farm:
We can do nothing by interference. Remember the old saying, You cannot touch pitch without being defiled.
When yet has there been no crisis present to a man who has wanted an excuse?—
It could not be expected that she should sympathise with generalities for ever.
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