The Way We Live Now (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #76]

by Anthony Trollope

It was supposed that the working-classes were in favour of Melmotte, partly from their love of a man who spends a great deal of money, partly from the belief that he was being ill-used — partly, no doubt, from that occult sympathy which is felt for crime, when the crime committed is injurious to the upper classes.