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bookz (11)in #dwarf • 7 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #12/288
Chapter3 The child was closely followed by an elderly man of remarkably hard features and forbidding aspect, and so low in stature as to be quite a dwarf, though his head…
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bookz (11)in #nell • 16 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #11/288
Then the plain question is, an't it a pity that this state of things should continue, and how much better would it be for the gentleman to hand over a reasonable amount of…
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bookz (11)in #conversation • 20 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #10/288
The old man sat himself down in a chair, and with folded hands, looked sometimes at his grandson and sometimes at his strange companion, as if he were utterly powerless and had…
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bookz (11)in #persuasion • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #9/288
The best they can do, is to keep an eye to their business and leave me to mind. There's a friend of mine waiting outside, and as it seems that I may have to wait some time…
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bookz (11)in #hesitation • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #8/288
Chapter2 After combating, for nearly a week, the feeling which impelled me to revisit the place I had quitted under the circumstances already detailed, I yielded to it at…
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bookz (11)in #wandering • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #7/288
Yet I lingered about, and could not tear myself away, thinking of all possible harm that might happen to the child—of fires and robberies and even murder—and feeling as if some…
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bookz (11)in #trust • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #6/288
I am sure you mean well, but are you quite certain that you know how to execute such a trust as this? I am an old man, like you, and I am actuated by an old man's concern in…
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bookz (11)in #nell • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #5/288
As for Kit himself (whose laugh had been all the time one of that sort which very little would change into a cry) he carried a large slice of bread and meat and a mug of beer…
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bookz (11)in #childhood • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #4/288
I was surprised to see that all this time everything was done by the child, and that there appeared to be no other persons but ourselves in the house. I took advantage of a…
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bookz (11)in #ghosts • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #3/288
When she had knocked twice or thrice there was a noise as if some person were moving inside, and at length a faint light appeared through the glass which, as it approached…
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bookz (11)in #frightened • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #2/288
'I am afraid it is a very long way, for I came from there to-night.' 'Alone?' said I, in some surprise. 'Oh, yes, I don't mind that, but I am a little frightened now, for I…
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bookz (11)in #restlessness • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop #1/288
Chapter1 Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or…
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