Depth answers only to depth .
Charles DickensV. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in
Charles DickensI remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided between pleasure and regret - pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions - that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personal confidences and private emotions.
Charles DickensThere was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all.
Charles DickensThe Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
Charles Dickensit was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
Charles DickensThat sprung up between us. You are not truly happy
Charles DickensNo Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still
Charles DickensMade X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness
Charles Dickensit is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too
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