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It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.
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Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves)
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There are two things I do not believe in,” said Inspector Çelik, “jinn and coincidences.
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Miles Nilsson Fowler (Murder in the Grand Bazaar: An Intellectual Thriller)
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Where the union chose to ignore the inspector, there was little he could do about
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Simon Fowler (The Workhouse: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors)
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As their visits were arranged in advance, it was generally possible to present the house in the best possible light. Often the inspector was accompanied by the master and the guardians, which made it difficult for staff, let alone the pauper inmates, to make complaints.
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Simon Fowler (The Workhouse: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors)
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One inspector might be responsible for unions in half-a-dozen counties. Generally, they seem to have been a very conscientious body of men (the first women were not appointed until the 1880s, and then only to supervise the schooling of workhouse children).
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Simon Fowler (The Workhouse: The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors)