Status Updates From Bleak House

This is getting spicy. Fishy. I smell a smelly smell that smells.... smelly. People are scheming in this story behind the scenes. Mr. Skimpole is suspicious. How is it that he gets by in life without taking any responsibility for anything? How is it that he has everyone else pay for everything for him? He must have dirt on people in this story. But things are starting to come together, finally.