Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
Charles DickensCheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Charles DickensAt the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.
Charles DickensWhy, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
Charles DickensAnd how did little Tim behave?โ asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heartโs content. โAs good as gold,โ said Bob, โand better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.
Charles Dickens