Satire in the Victorian novel

by Frances Theresa Russell

[195] Arthur Clennam had remarked that the patriarchal Mr. Casby is a fine old fellow. Mr. Panks snorts a bitter concurrence of opinion:

“Noble old boy, an’t he? * * * generous old buck. Confiding old boy. Philanthropic old buck. Benevolent old boy! Twenty per cent I engaged to pay him, sir. But we never do business for less, at our shop.” Little Dorrit, I, 554.

[196] Oliver Twist, 219.

[197] Nicholas Nickleby, II, 26.

[198] Bleak House, 195.

[199] Nicholas Nickleby, II, 85.

[200] Dombey and Son, 433.

[201] Bleak House, 105.

[202] Phineas Finn, I, 214. In the story same Lady Glencora uses the Socratic method on Mrs. Bonteen to make her admit she is really an advocate of social equality.

[203] Framley Parsonage, 180.