Leigh Teabing Quotes

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The antagonist of the novel, Leigh Teabing, as it was mentioned above is a man who knows alot about history and very welthy." Leigh Teabing was wealthy in the way small countries were wealthy. A descendant of Britain's First Duke of Lancaster, Teabing had gotten his money the old-fashioned way—he'd inherited it. His estate outside of Paris was a seventeenth-century palace with two private lakes."(183). As it is mentioned in the novel Teabing is crippled from polio, and had no wife. At his first appearance in the novel Sir Leigh Teabing seems to be gentle and pleasing. He welcomed Langdon and Sophie to his house, then pretended to help them escape from the police but only for his own benefits. His actions reveal his eagerness that bursts

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