How we cite our quotes: Collins doesn't use traditional chapters in The Moonstone, so the citations are a little trickier than in other Victorian novels. Citations follow this format: (Period.Narrative.Chapter.Paragraph).
Quote #7
It often falls heavy enough, no doubt, on people who are really obliged to get their living, to be forced to work for the clothes that cover them, the roof that shelters them, and the food that keeps them going. But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do. (1.1.8.10)
Betteredge knows from personal experience that it's tough to have to work for a living. But he thinks that having to work hard sure beats not having anything at all to do. After all, if you have nothing to do, you end up inventing hobbies, like dissecting flowers and spiders.
Quote #8
'Hadn't you better say she's mad enough to be an ugly girl and only a servant?' he asked. 'The falling in love with a gentleman of Mr Franklin Blake's manners and appearance doesn't seem to me to be the maddest part of her conduct by any means. (1.1.14.18)
Sergeant Cuff is quite understanding of Rosanna Spearman. He doesn't think it's unnatural at all for a servant girl, even an "ugly" one, to fall in love with Franklin Blake.
Quote #9
'She has no right, of course, to expect him to take any interest in her. It's quite monstrous that she should forget herself and her station in that way. But she seems to have lost pride, and proper feeling, and everything.' (1.1.17.38)
Penelope thinks that Rosanna has forgotten "her station" not so much by falling in love with Franklin Blake, who is far above her in social rank, but by expecting him "to take any interest in her." It's not unnatural that she should love him, but expecting him to feel even close to the same way suggests that she has "lost pride, and proper feeling, and everything."