[257]A living French author, whose dramas are all said to have a moral purpose.—Tr.
[258]"David Copperfield," ch. LXV; the scene between the doctor and his wife.
[259] "Et je verrais mourir frère, enfants,
mère, et femme
Que je m'en soucierais autant que
de cela."
These lines, said by Orgon to his brother-in-law Cléante, are from Molière's "Tartuffe," I. 6.
[260]"Martin Chuzzlewit," ch. II.
[261]"Martin Chuzzlewit," ch. VIII.
[262]"Hard Times," book I. ch. I.
[263]Ibid, book I. ch. II.