Steph Wylie’s Reviews > Bleak House > Status Update

"Now there is a sound of putting up shop-shutters in the court, and a smell as of the smoking of pipes; and shooting stars are seen in upper windows, further indicating retirement to rest. Now, too, the policeman begins to push at doors; to try fastenings; to be suspicious of bundles; and to administer his beat, on the hypothesis that everyone is either robbing or being robbed."

Is anyone else frequently frustrated because they want to share something on a status update, but can't because of how sufficatingly limiting goodreads' character count restriction is? Anyway, see below because it wouldn't fit up here.

"They cannot go away too fast; for, even here, my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death....nothing is new to my Lady, under the worn-out heavens. She cannot, therefore, go too fast from Paris.

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject."