“Very well!' said Doyce. 'Then, if this young lady will do me the honour of regarding me for four-and-twenty hours in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“you see,' said Little Dorrit's old friend, 'this young lady is one of our curiosities, and has come now to the third… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Little Dorrit's old friend held the inkstand as she signed her name, and the clerk paused in taking off the good clergyman's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Miss Manette!' The young lady, to whom all eyes had been turned before, and were now turned again, stood up where she… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile direct your attention to the three gentlemen at the door: they are conversing. 1st Gent. — Who’s the man of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Thus engaged, with her right elbow supported by her left hand, Madame Defarge said nothing when her lord came in, but coughed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
