If a mummy trembled in an atom of its dusty covering, Inspector Field would say, ‘Come out of that, Tom Green. He is bringing his shrewd eye to bear on every corner of its solitary galleries, before he reports ‘all right.’ Suspicious of the Elgin marbles, and not to be done by cat-faced Egyptian giants with their hands upon their knees, Inspector Field, sagacious, vigilant, lamp in hand, throwing monstrous shadows on the walls and ceilings, passes through the spacious rooms. Inspector Field is, to-night, the guardian genius of the British Museum. Detective Sergeant, weary of speaking French all day to foreigners unpacking at the Great Exhibition, is already here. Where is Inspector Field? Assistant Commissioner of Police is already here, enwrapped in oil-skin cloak, and standing in the shadow of Saint Giles’s steeple. A damp wind blows and rakes the pieman’s fire out, when he opens the door of his little furnace, carrying away an eddy of sparks. The weather is dull and wet, and the long lines of street lamps are blurred, as if we saw them through tears. HOW goes the night? Saint Giles’s clock is striking nine. On Duty With Inspector Field was published on Saturday, 14 June, 1851, in the magazine Household Words. Field was also almost certainly the model for Inspector Bucket in Bleak House. In 1851 Dickens wrote the short essay On Duty with Inspector Field about Field and his work. Through this, he became good friends with Charles Frederick Field (1805–1874), a police officer with Scotland Yard. About The Circumlocution Office Website.Ĭharles Dickens had a particular fascination in the development of the police force in London and would occasionally accompany police constables on their nightly rounds.The rise and fall of The Eagle and Grecian, City Road. All the fun of Charles Dickens’s Greenwich Fair.The Song of the Shirt: Mrs Biddell and an early victory in the Victorian court of public opinion.Population of London in the Victorian era.Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth Century.View over 250 locations associated with Charles Dickens in our trail.View quotations by character (sorted by work).View all our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations.The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain.Charles Dickens speech to Metropolitan Sanitary Association.Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852–1902).Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847–1872).Alfred DOrsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912).Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863).Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens (1839–1929).Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896).
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