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"We observed that the wind always changed, when Mrs. Pardiggle became the subject of conversation: and that it invariably interrupted Mr. Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people; one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. We were therefore curious to see Mrs. Pardiggle, suspecting her to be a type of the former class . . ."
--Charles Dickens, Bleak House (Chapter 8)
Esther's suspicions are confirmed when we meet Mrs. Pardiggle; she is indeed a "type of the former class."
I was hesitant to commit to reading Bleak House, due to its length, but I'm really enjoying it. Esther is a compelling narrator and is more "clever" than she presents herself to be.
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