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Joshua Rigg (who later becomes Joshua Rigg-Featherstone after inheriting his father’s land) is the illegitimate son of Mr. Featherstone. His inheritance of Featherstone’s entire fortune shocks everyone in Middlemarch except Rigg himself. He sells Featherstone’s house, Stone Court, to Bulstrode, and leaves town to fulfill his lifelong dream of opening his own money-changing shop on a busy quay.
Joshua Rigg Quotes in Middlemarch
The Middlemarch quotes below are all either spoken by Joshua Rigg or refer to Joshua Rigg. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 5, Chapter 53
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He had a very distinct and intense vision of his chief good, the vigorous greed which he had inherited having taken a special form by dint of circumstance: and his chief good was to be a money-changer… The one joy after which his soul thirsted was to have a money-changer's shop on a much-frequented quay, to have locks all round him of which he held the keys, and to look sublimely cool as he handled the breeding coins of all nations, while helpless Cupidity looked at him enviously from the other side of an iron lattice. The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it.
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Joshua Rigg Quotes in Middlemarch
The Middlemarch quotes below are all either spoken by Joshua Rigg or refer to Joshua Rigg. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 5, Chapter 53
Quotes
He had a very distinct and intense vision of his chief good, the vigorous greed which he had inherited having taken a special form by dint of circumstance: and his chief good was to be a money-changer… The one joy after which his soul thirsted was to have a money-changer's shop on a much-frequented quay, to have locks all round him of which he held the keys, and to look sublimely cool as he handled the breeding coins of all nations, while helpless Cupidity looked at him enviously from the other side of an iron lattice. The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it.
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