Bleak House

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Cast & crew

Maurice ElveyDirectorConstance Collieras Lady DedlockBBerta Gellardias Esther SummersonEE. Vivian Reynoldsas TulkinghorneNNorman Pageas GuppyClifford Heatherleyas BucketIIon Swinleyas Captain HawdonAA. Harding Steermanas Sir Leicester DedlockAAnthony St. Johnas JoHelen Hayeas Miss BarbayTTeddy Arundellas GeorgeBBeatrix Templetonas Rachel

• “London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.”

• ““She means well,” said Mr. Jarndyce hastily. “The wind’s in the east.” “It was in the north, sir, as we came down,” observed Richard. “My dear Rick,” said Mr. Jarndyce, poking the fire, “I’ll take an oath it’s either in the east or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.””

• ““I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!””

• ““Don’t you be afraid of hurting the boy,” he says.”

• ““Take care, while you are young, that you can think in those days, ‘I never whitened a hair of her dear head—I never marked a sorrowful line in her face!’ For of all the many things that you can think of when you are a man, you had better have by you, Woolwich!””

• ““Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.””

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