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Volumnia Dedlock is a distant cousin of Sir Leicester Dedlock’s and often comes to stay with him at his house in Chesney Wold. Volumnia pretends to be much younger than she is, and is an old-fashioned minor aristocrat who has been raised to do nothing but attend dances and live an idle life of leisure. She cares for Sir Leicester during his illness after the shock of Lady Dedlock’s death, and she is keen to ingratiate herself with her cousin so that he will leave her an inheritance after his death.
Volumnia Dedlock Quotes in Bleak House
The Bleak House quotes below are all either spoken by Volumnia Dedlock or refer to Volumnia Dedlock. 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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Service, however (with a few limited reservations; genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. So they visit their richer cousins, and get into debt when they can, and live but shabbily when they can’t, and find—the women no husbands, and the men no wives—and ride in borrowed carriages, and sit at feasts that are never of their own making, and so go through high life. The rich family sum has been divided by so many figures, and they are the something over that nobody knows what to do with.
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Volumnia Dedlock Quotes in Bleak House
The Bleak House quotes below are all either spoken by Volumnia Dedlock or refer to Volumnia Dedlock. 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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Service, however (with a few limited reservations; genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. So they visit their richer cousins, and get into debt when they can, and live but shabbily when they can’t, and find—the women no husbands, and the men no wives—and ride in borrowed carriages, and sit at feasts that are never of their own making, and so go through high life. The rich family sum has been divided by so many figures, and they are the something over that nobody knows what to do with.
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