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Interestingly, Rachel is the only one who gets a lot of internal dialogue.

Rachel, too, could hardly stand. "Poor thing," she said to herself, "she knows it all–all what? Oh! these horrible suspicions! why were they ever put into my head? and why have they become almost certainties? Is money worth all the misery, the struggles it brings? Those Pauls, and Strahans, and Redpaths, have more to answer for than the pecuniary ruin they have wrought.
Rachel did not choose that Charlie should sit under the shadow of Willis's withered gourd, and she did not think that the gourd had any right to wither with such a Charlie to shine on it.
"... though I did not quite know what she meant by saying it would be 'a tedious brief scene, and very tragical mirth, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.'

The author's social peers:

If you could see some of the young girls who have hardly been out a year! their forward manners... –their careless manners to their mothers, and their extraordinary self-sufficiency–you would be shocked.
(After pin money settlement) he felt it due to the injured feelings of himself and Aileen to rush up to Hancock's and secure a diamond necklace that was on the point of being "submitted to the Empress Eugénie for approval," that being now the favourite term for buying and selling.
"I wish you had seen my father," Arthur afterwards said to Blanche; "he thought it right to see the baby, because he looks upon that mite as a young earl and a sucking Secretary of State, but he was afraid of touching it, and contented himself with stroking it with the end of his gold pencil case and assuring Mrs. Smith that it was a remarkably fine child,
Now, if there is one thing more than another conducive to low spirits, it is that depressing invention–a comic song! The mere advertisements–"I'm a merry laughing girl," or "I too, am seventeen, Mamma!" if read early in the morning, particularly before breakfast, produce a degree of nausea that affects the health for the whole day.

"The Semi-Dettached House" [.] (Reply)