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Mr. Lillyvick
Mrs. Wititterly is Mr. Wititterly’s wife. Kate goes to work as her “companion,” or as a kind of servant, after she stops working at Madame Mantalini’s dress shot. While the Wititterlys are wealthy, they are also interested in raising their social standing. To try and achieve that, Mrs. Wititterly invites Frederick and Mulberry to her house, knowing that they are of high standing. Mulberry harasses Kate at the Wititterlys’ house. Mrs. Wititterly not only fails to intervene but ultimately blames Kate for the harassment. Kate tells Mrs. Wititterly that the accusations are ludicrous and insulting.
Mrs. Wititterly Quotes in Nicholas Nickleby
The Nicholas Nickleby quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Wititterly or refer to Mrs. Wititterly. 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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Chapter 28
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[…T]he reflections of Sir Mulberry Hawk turned upon Kate Nickleby, and were, in brief, that she was undoubtedly handsome; that her coyness must be easily conquerable by a man of his address and experience, and that the pursuit was one which could not fail to redound to his credit, and greatly to enhance his reputation with the world. And lest this last consideration—no mean or secondary one with Sir Mulberry—should sound strangely in the ears of some, let it be remembered that most men live in a world of their own, and that in that limited circle alone are they ambitious for distinction and applause. Sir Mulberry's world was peopled with profligates, and he acted accordingly.
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.
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Mrs. Wititterly Quotes in Nicholas Nickleby
The Nicholas Nickleby quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Wititterly or refer to Mrs. Wititterly. 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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Chapter 28
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[…T]he reflections of Sir Mulberry Hawk turned upon Kate Nickleby, and were, in brief, that she was undoubtedly handsome; that her coyness must be easily conquerable by a man of his address and experience, and that the pursuit was one which could not fail to redound to his credit, and greatly to enhance his reputation with the world. And lest this last consideration—no mean or secondary one with Sir Mulberry—should sound strangely in the ears of some, let it be remembered that most men live in a world of their own, and that in that limited circle alone are they ambitious for distinction and applause. Sir Mulberry's world was peopled with profligates, and he acted accordingly.
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.
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