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Rev. Edward Casaubon
Mrs. Cadwallader is a friend of the Brooke family. She is born into a noble family but “married down;” her husband, Mr. Cadwallader, is neither high-ranking nor wealthy. She is a nosy, gossip-prone woman who involves herself in the arrangement of marriages in Middlemarch. She is also very charming and delivers some of the most memorable, cutting lines in the novel.
Mrs. Elinor Cadwallader Quotes in Middlemarch
The Middlemarch quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Elinor Cadwallader or refer to Mrs. Elinor Cadwallader. 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 1, Chapter 6
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She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty… But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high retail prices, and Mrs Cadwallader detested high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's design in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe.
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Mrs. Elinor Cadwallader Quotes in Middlemarch
The Middlemarch quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Elinor Cadwallader or refer to Mrs. Elinor Cadwallader. 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 1, Chapter 6
Quotes
She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty… But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high retail prices, and Mrs Cadwallader detested high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's design in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe.
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