How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust." (11.4.125)
Bella Wilfer is devastated to see that money has turned the once-kind Mr. Boffin into a paranoid and cruel jerk. Little does she know that Boffin is faking it in order to test her character.
Quote #2
For Silas Wegg felt it to be quite out of the question that he could lay his head upon his pillow in peace, without first hovering over Mr. Boffin's house in the superior character of its Evil Genius. (12.7.95)
Wegg is the kind of guy who is always looking to turn any situation to his advantage. Rather than be grateful for the money and housing Mr. Boffin has given him, he thinks about how he can get more and more money out of Boffin.
Quote #3
"Though that wouldn't quite do […] That's what would happen to him if he didn't buy us up. We should get nothing by that." (12.7.106)
Wegg likes to play out all of the different ways he could blackmail Boffin. He knows he can't ask for all of Boffin's money because Boffin would then have nothing to lose. Thus begins Wegg's long process of trying to nickel-and-dime Mr. Boffin out of as much money as possible.