We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of this place is to us; does he, Lizzie? It's the quiet, and the air." "The quiet!" repeated Fledgeby, with a contemptuous turn of his head towards the City's roar. "And the air!" with a "Poof!" at the smoke. "Ah!" said Jenny. "But it's so high. And you see the clouds rushing on above the narrow streets, not minding them, and you see the golden arrows pointing at the mountains in the sky from which the wind comes, and you feel as if you were dead." The little creature looked above her, holding up her slight transparent hand. "How do you feel when you are dead?" asked Fledgeby, much perplexed. "Oh, so tranquil!" cried the little creature, smiling. "Oh, so peaceful and so thankful! And you hear the people who are alive, crying, and working, and calling to one another down in the close dark streets, and you seem to pity them so! And such a chain has fallen from you, and such a strange good sorrowful happiness comes upon you!" Her eyes fell on the old man, who, with his hands folded, quietly looked on. "Why it was only just now," said the little creature, pointing at him, "that I fancied I saw him come out of his grave! He toiled out at that low door so bent and worn, and then he took his breath and stood upright, and looked all round him at the sky, and the wind blew upon him, and his life down in the dark was over!—Till he was called back to life," she added, looking round at Fledgeby with that lower look of sharpness. "Why did you call him back?" "He was long enough coming, anyhow," grumbled Fledgeby. "But you are not dead, you know," said Jenny Wren. "Get down to life!" Mr Fledgeby seemed to think it rather a good suggestion, and with a nod turned round. As Riah followed to attend him down the stairs, the little creature called out to the Jew in a silvery tone, "Don't be long gone. Come back, and be dead!" And still as they went down they heard the little sweet voice, more and more faintly, half calling and half singing, "Come back and be dead, Come back and be dead!
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tears, and a declaration that nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. CHARLES DICKENS In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doi... CHARLES DICKENS Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre... CHARLES DICKENS "There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated.... CHARLES DICKENS Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last CHARLES DICKENS Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole in one CHARLES DICKENS Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain... CHARLES DICKENS Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have d... CHARLES DICKENS Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the o... CHARLES DICKENS I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, wi... CHARLES DICKENS Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! CHARLES DICKENS There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. CHARLES DICKENS I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. CHARLES DICKENS The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. CHARLES DICKENS The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. CHARLES DICKENS Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. CHARLES DICKENS Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. CHARLES DICKENS Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. CHARLES DICKENS We forge the chains we wear in life. CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. CHARLES DICKENS It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ... CHARLES DICKENS The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ... CHARLES DICKENS [Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee... CHARLES DICKENS In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi... CHARLES DICKENS Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,... CHARLES DICKENS The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth... CHARLES DICKENS Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli... CHARLES DICKENS Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't... CHARLES DICKENS Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t... CHARLES DICKENS He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pick... CHARLES DICKENS The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but... CHARLES DICKENS I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me. CHARLES DICKENS Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, le... CHARLES DICKENS That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. CHARLES DICKENS The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill
your pipe with that 'ere reflection... CHARLES DICKENS Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feeli... CHARLES DICKENS He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed h... CHARLES DICKENS Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. CHARLES DICKENS She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. CHARLES DICKENS There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ... CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison." CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer... CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb... CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one! CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat... CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man... CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug. CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta... CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc... CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly. CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i... CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are hi... CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." CHARLES DICKENS