These quotes are useful to remember for knowing the setting in the book. Victorian London was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and so had a lot of people in poverty, and a few in power with extreme wealth.
Quotes to remember:
'the clerk's fire was so very much smaller'
'that it looked like one coal'
'a perfect grove'
'dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown'
'conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day'