# dickens villain botd

❤️ When Jane tells off Mrs. Reed:

“…you treated me with miserable cruelty…Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult... It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty…”
—Jane Eyre

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The man had shrunk down, thoroughly quelled by the ferocity of the crowd and the impossibility of escape..

- Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist

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Scrooge.

‘Every idiot who goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.’

from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

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“It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank.” (John Poldiroi "The Vampyre")



🎨 Max Ernst

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Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 in Edinburgh.

Here are some illustrations by N.C Wyeth for Kidnapped.

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness & humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”

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“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.” (Robert Louis Stevenson "Treasure Island")

🎨 J.M.W. Turner "Small Boats beside a Man-o’-War" (1796)

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Thank you all for your fabulous suggestions and your support. We're looking forward to this new chapter!

🎨Kilburne

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