dowdles

Updated: May 4, 2025

'When she was at school in Devonshire, she was universally allowed to be beyond all exception the very cleverest girl there, and there were a great many very clever ones too, and that's the truth twenty-five young ladies, fifty guineas a year without the et-ceteras, both the Miss Dowdles the most accomplished, elegant, fascinating creatures Oh dear me! said Mrs Nickleby, 'I never shall forget what pleasure she used to give me and her poor dear papa, when she was at that school, never such a delightful letter every half-year, telling us that she was the first pupil in the whole establishment, and had made more progress than anybody else!

Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby