Rosa Dartle asked Steerforth about "That sort of people-are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order?
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
When Steerforth, after running away with Emily and deserting her, was drowned and brought home, Rosa Dartle, who had loved him, charged his mother with his ruin.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
What a contrast between this humour and the strange scene in the drawing-room at James Steerforth's home after Rosa Dartle had sung the strange weird Irish song to the accompaniment of her harp!
"Charles Dickens and Music"
James T. Lightwood