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Sergeant Cuff
The wealthy noblewoman who presides over the Verinder estate and social circle at the center of the novel. Julia (née Herncastle) is mother to Miss Rachel Verinder, husband to the late Sir John Verinder, sister to John Herncastle and Caroline Ablewhite (among others), and the employer of Gabriel and Penelope Betteredge, Rosanna Spearman, and numerous other servants. Levelheaded, honest, widely respected, and deeply protective of her daughter, not to mention a much better manager of her estate than her husband ever was, Julia is the opposite of her vicious, immoral brother John Herncastle. While she tries to protect Rachel—for instance, by encouraging her daughter to safeguard the Moonstone in a locked cabinet, and later by firing Sergeant Cuff when he begins to suspect Rachel was involved in the theft—she also seeks for Rachel to become independent and allows her to make her own decisions. When she falls terminally ill during Miss Clack’s narrative, Julia spends her final days arranging Rachel’s future and fighting off Clack’s attempts to save her soul through religion.
Lady Julia Verinder Quotes in The Moonstone
The The Moonstone quotes below are all either spoken by Lady Julia Verinder or refer to Lady Julia Verinder. 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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The Loss of the Diamond: 21
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I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason. This enabled me to hold firm to my lady's view, which was my view also. This roused my spirit, and made me put a bold face on it before Sergeant Cuff. Profit, good friends, I beseech you, by my example. It will save you from many troubles of the vexing sort. Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!
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The Loss of the Diamond: 22
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“Her ladyship has smoothed matters over for the present very cleverly,” said the Sergeant. “But this family scandal is of the sort that bursts up again when you least expect it. We shall have more detective-business on our hands, sir, before the Moonstone is many months older.”
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The Discovery of the Truth 1: 4
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“I'm afraid, Drusilla,” she said, “I must wait till I am a little better, before I can read that. The doctor—”
The moment she mentioned the doctor's name, I knew what was coming. Over and over again in my past experience among my perishing fellow-creatures, the members of the notoriously infidel profession of Medicine had stepped between me and my mission of mercy—on the miserable pretence that the patient wanted quiet, and that the disturbing influence of all others which they most dreaded, was the influence of Miss Clack and her Books. Precisely the same blinded materialism (working treacherously behind my back) now sought to rob me of the only right of property that my poverty could claim—my right of spiritual property in my perishing aunt.
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Lady Julia Verinder Quotes in The Moonstone
The The Moonstone quotes below are all either spoken by Lady Julia Verinder or refer to Lady Julia Verinder. 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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The Loss of the Diamond: 21
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I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason. This enabled me to hold firm to my lady's view, which was my view also. This roused my spirit, and made me put a bold face on it before Sergeant Cuff. Profit, good friends, I beseech you, by my example. It will save you from many troubles of the vexing sort. Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!
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The Loss of the Diamond: 22
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“Her ladyship has smoothed matters over for the present very cleverly,” said the Sergeant. “But this family scandal is of the sort that bursts up again when you least expect it. We shall have more detective-business on our hands, sir, before the Moonstone is many months older.”
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The Discovery of the Truth 1: 4
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“I'm afraid, Drusilla,” she said, “I must wait till I am a little better, before I can read that. The doctor—”
The moment she mentioned the doctor's name, I knew what was coming. Over and over again in my past experience among my perishing fellow-creatures, the members of the notoriously infidel profession of Medicine had stepped between me and my mission of mercy—on the miserable pretence that the patient wanted quiet, and that the disturbing influence of all others which they most dreaded, was the influence of Miss Clack and her Books. Precisely the same blinded materialism (working treacherously behind my back) now sought to rob me of the only right of property that my poverty could claim—my right of spiritual property in my perishing aunt.
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