How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Commotion in the office of the hotel. Merdle! The landlord, though a gentleman of a haughty spirit who had just driven a pair of thorough-bred horses into town, turned out to show him up-stairs. The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Merdle! O ye sun, moon, and stars, the great man! The rich man, who had in a manner revised the New Testament, and already entered into the kingdom of Heaven. The man who could have any one he chose to dine with him, and who had made the money!
As he went up the stairs, people were already posted on the lower stairs, that his shadow might fall upon them when he came down. So were the sick brought out and laid in the track of the Apostle--who had NOT got into the good society, and had NOT made the money. (2.16.7-8)
Now Merdle and his wealth is the shadow that falls on people! And of course Dickens goes in for the overkill with the biblical references to a rich man getting into heaven being like a camel getting through the eye of a needle – and how these people are acting as though that were now reversed.