Important Quotations Explained
[T]he idea is that we should all write the story of the Moonstone in turn—as far as our own personal experience extends, and no farther.
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond, and, instead of that, I have been telling the story of my own self. Curious, and quite beyond me to account for. I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me?
Ha, Mr. Betteredge, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich. I pray Heaven they may begin with him.
"They seem to be in a conspiracy to persecute you," she said. "What does it mean?" "Only the protest of the world, Miss Verinder—on a very small scale—against anything that is new.'"
