Sapsea

‘You are out of temper,’ says Sapsea again; reddening, but again sinking to the company.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

‘I will take it upon myself, sir,’ observes Sapsea loftily,

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

‘Very good people, sir, Mr. and Mrs. Tope,’ said Mr. Sapsea, with condescension.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

‘You mean the Rheumatism,’ says Sapsea, in a sharp tone.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

Sapsea_ in Charles Dickens's "Edwin Drood," and remember how his wife, in an attitude of abject admiration, used to address him as "O thou!"

"The Woman Behind the Man" 1916

Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land_, by W.R. Hughes, for the background of his drawing of "Durdles Cautioning Sapsea".

Dickens-Land E. W. Haslehust 1907

It is thus almost startling to read his extravagant praise of a passage about Sapsea which the author discarded in _Edwin Drood_.

John Forster Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Jasper now tells Sapsea, and the Dean, that he is to make "a moonlight expedition with Durdles among the tombs, vaults, towers, and ruins to-night."

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

The jackass, Sapsea, left the Club, and met the stranger, A YOUNG MAN, who fooled him to the top of his bent, saying, "If I was to deny that I came to this town to see and hear you, Sir, what would it avail me?"

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

"Datchery would not think of the Sapsea vault unaided."

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878