Grewgious

Could've been Grewgious, but that's too hard to say!

My Baby, By Any Other Name... 2008

Grewgious in which Jasper is struck down with remorse when he realises that Drood has been killed (from his point of view) needlessly and without profit.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

Again, he might be Grewgious; but there is something pointless about one grotesque character dressing up as another grotesque character actually less amusing than himself.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

Grewgious now knows by Jasper's behaviour that he believes himself to have committed a superfluous crime, by murdering Edwin, who no longer stood between him and Rosa, as their engagement was already at an end.

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

He offers to resign his hopes of bringing Landless to the gallows (perhaps this bad man would provide a corpus delicti of his own making!) if Rosa will accept him: he threatens to "pursue her to the death," if she will not; he frightens her so thoroughly that she rushes to Grewgious in his chambers in London.

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

Thus Grewgious had information enough, from Miss Landless, to suggest his experiment -- Dickens intentionally made that clear (though not clear enough for Mr. Proctor and Mr. Cuming Walters) -- while his experiment gives him a moral certainty of Jasper's crime, but yields no legal evidence.

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

She tells Grewgious, who is watching Neville, -- "I have a fancy for keeping him under my eye," -- that Jasper has made love to her, and Grewgious replies in a parody of "God save the King"!

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

"Her ring -- will it come back to me?" reflects the mournful Grewgious.

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

Grewgious, Rosa's guardian, now comes down on business; the girl fails to explain to him the unsatisfactory relations between her and Edwin: Grewgious is to return to her "at Christmas," if she sends for him, and she does send.

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878

In that case the experiment of Grewgious was not made to gain information from Jasper's demeanour, but was the beginning of his punishment, and was intended by Grewgious to be so.

The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot Andrew Lang 1878