\u201cHe sails to-night from Liverpool\u2026It isn\u2019t like George Talboys\u201d (Braddon 95).<\/p>\n
In this passage, Captain Maldon tries to convince Robert Audley that George had just left for Australia. I think Braddon included it with the intention of the reader to become suspicious of George\u2019s father-in-law\u00a0and to come to the conclusion that he was lying about George\u2019s disappearance. After all, Robert said that it \u201cisn\u2019t like George Talboys\u201d to embark on a long journey \u201cwithout even a change of clothes\u201d or \u201cword to\u2026his most intimate friend\u201d (Braddon 95). Captain Maldon seemed \u201canxious\u201d to soothe \u201cany indignation\u201d Robert might have felt against his claims, suggesting that perhaps George would \u201cwrite to [him] from Liverpool\u201d (95). Using phrases such as \u201csick of the world,\u201d \u201cnever to return\u201d and \u201cgrave\u201d Maldon implied that George might even have been contemplating suicide, perhaps trying to convince Robert to leave the matter alone (Braddon 95). He consistently offered excuses to support his lie, citing his daughter\u2019s death as the reason for George\u2019s strange behavior. Robert asserted that though George was miserable, he was in his right mind. This exchange harkens back to page 48\u00a0when Robert noticed Captain Maldon was \u201cin a great hurry to get rid of [his] son-in-law\u201d (Braddon). It seems to me that both Captain Maldon and Lady Audley have something against George, and had reason to want him dead or gone. It was confirmed on page 171 that Captain Maldon was in fact lying. Captain\u00a0Maldon, a very poor and greedy man, would do anything to keep the tax collectors at bay. I think that Lucy bribed him with little Georgey’s watch to cover up for whatever she did to George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cHe sails to-night from Liverpool\u2026It isn\u2019t like George Talboys\u201d (Braddon 95). In this passage, Captain Maldon tries to convince Robert Audley that George had just left for Australia. I think Braddon included it with the intention of the reader to become suspicious of George\u2019s father-in-law\u00a0and to come to the conclusion that he was lying about … Continue reading “He sails to-night from Liverpool” (Braddon 95).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}