Chapter 2 (In Fashion)
Introduction of Lady Dedlock at Chesney Wold: 'My Lady Dedlock has been bored to death.' Her recognition of the handwriting on the legal document that begins her unraveling.
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From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Lady Dedlock embodies the frozen elegance of the aristocracy, but harbors the secret of an illegitimate daughter and a past lover; she is introduced as 'bored to death.'
Chapter 36 (Chesney Wold)
Lady Dedlock confesses to Esther that she is her mother—one of the novel's most emotionally charged revelations.
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