The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.
Charles DickensWhen we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
Charles DickensIt was a murky confusion โ here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel โ of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.
Charles DickensHe knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.
Charles DickensAnnual income is ยฃ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of ยฃ 20, the cost is ยฃ 20.6, you will see suffering
Charles DickensBlackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.
Charles Dickens