“am the clearer for that,' he gasped to Clennam standing astonished. 'But upon my soul, to hear her father making speeches in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me,"… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don’t mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave… — 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 Image
... 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 Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image