No one tried the quiz I posted a while back. (Sorry, Christy, but "a lot of those quotes sound like Doctor Who" doesn't count. Nice try, though. ;-) ) So I'm going to sweeten the pot. If you correctly identify which characters said the quotes below, in addition to winning $20 for the charity of your choice, you'll be entered into a drawing to win a DVD of the bicentenary edition of Dickens of London! This is a 13-part miniseries about the moments that shaped Dickens's life, starring Roy Dotrice.
Send the answers to gdalfonzo AT verizon DOT net. (And yes, you can use your books and/or search engines.) You have until 12 a.m. on Sunday, March 4, to enter. Good luck!
1. "Where are you staying, abomination?"
2. "Bravo! . . . Or, if Yoicks would be in better keeping, consider that I said Yoicks."
3. "Bless you, man alive, I'm everywhere. I'm here, there, and where not, like the conjurer's half-crown in the lady's handkercher."
4. "Never imagine anything. Have no imagination at all."
5. "The horthe danthed the Polka till he wath dead bet (he would have walthzed, if he hadn't been in harneth), and then I gave him the word and he went to thleep comfortable."
6. "Let him be -- let him be -- or I shall put that mark on some of you, that will bring me to the gallows before my time."
7. "I am nobody. Don't take on to mind me. Don't mention me. Take no notice."
8. "Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."
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