The individual bigwig had a very large retinue, the members of which appear to have held very strongly to the theory of one man, one job.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley
Dickens made a plea for mental refreshment and recreation for the working classes in Nobody's Story, similar to that made in Hard Times: The workingman appealed to the bigwig family, and said: "We are a labouring people, and I have a glimmering suspicion in me that labouring people of whatever condition were made-by a higher intelligence than yours, as I poorly understand it-to be in need of mental refreshment and recreation.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
But the bigwig family broke out into violent family quarrels concerning what it was lawful to teach to this man's children.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes