We must scrunch or be scrunched.

He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk — that anything — could give him so much happiness.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Reflect upon your present blessings

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.