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"Get on, my lad!"
Bleak House. Charles Dickens. What a story teller. What a writer.
There are so many memorable scenes, characters, too many characters, were I honest and I shan't be, not now, another time. This is a time to marvel, not to quibble. This is an economical memorable line. I had forgotten about it. I have read this book several times, parts at a time. Have dog-eared it and post noted it. I had forgotten about this line. It is economical, understated drama. Det. Bucket and Esther Summerson are making a late, desperate attempt to find Lady Honoria Dedlock before it is too late. Det. Bucket has already discovered her suicide note and is an hour or more behind here, and he knows not whence she is. He takes Esther, Lady Dedlock's illegitimate daughter with him to soften the visual if Lady Dedlock were to see a Detective frantic after her.
"Don't you be alarmed, Miss Summerson, on account of our coming down here...I only want to have everything in train and to know that it is in train by looking after it my self. Get on, my lad!" [Bucket directs the horseman with urgency.]
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[The next page]
"...whenever he took his seat upon the box again, his face resumed its watchul steady look, and he always said to the driver in the same business tone, "Get on, my lad!"
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[Nine pages later]
...But whatever you do, don't you fall a-crying my dear; and don't worry yourself no more than you can help. Get on, my lad!"
[It is totally believable as the intensity of a detective who is literally on the scent.]
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"He always gave me a reassuring beck of his finger, and lift of his eyelid, as he got upon the box again; but he seemed perplexed now, when he said "Get on, my lad!"
[He is off the trail and he knows it and he is worried. Three pages later at the close of the chapter "A Wintry Day and Night":]
"My dear...I know, I know, and would I put you wrong, do you think? Inspector Bucket. Now you know me, don't you?"
What could I say buy yes!
"Then you keep up as good a heart as you can, and you rely upon me for standing by you...Now are you right there?"
"All right, sir!"
"Off she goes, then. And get on, my lads!"
I gave me chills. It is just as powerful on my mind as the trip up Shooters Hill in Tale of Two Cities. Not as evocative of scene. I can see the horse's struggle, the vapor expelled strenuously from their nostrils, the creeping gray mist working up the hill from the valley engulfing the riders, the danger when the stage approaches, their driver reaching for his blunderbuss. Oh! A remarkable scene that. But here in Bleak House we have an early example, perhaps the first example, of a character we have become familiar with, the driven detective investigator.
He describes his characters so well that I feel I could recognize them.
That is Lady Honoria Dedlock, Gillian Anderson is cast perfectly in the 2005 BBC adaptation of Bleak House. "We are vertebrates," said Vladimir Nabokov in his famous Cornell lectures on the book. "We feel that tingle down our spine. We are vertebrates tipped at the head by a divine flame." Charles Dickens had the divine flame and he was singular in creating in us, his readers, the tingle down our vertebrate's spine.
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