damac (25)in #tinker • 3 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's GroundCHAPTER VII—PICKING UP THE TINKERIt was now sunset. The Hermit had betaken himself to his bed of cinders half an hour ago, and lying on it in his blanket and skewer with his…damac (25)in #kitty • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #11/12There was a stealthy air about its innocent white curtains, and there were even dark hints of a dead girl lying under the coverlet. The great want of human company, the great…damac (25)in #bella • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #10/12As to harm, you more than sweetest, if not a liberty,” exclaimed the housemaid, in a rapture, “your Bella could trust you anywhere, being so steady, and so answerable. The…damac (25)in #miss • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #9/12With an air of softened resignation and pity, therefore, Miss Pupford went on with her preparations: and meanwhile no pupil ever went up-stairs, or came down, without peeping in…damac (25)in #pupil • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #8/12Also, there is a notion latent among pupils, that Miss Pupford was once in love, and that the beloved object still moves upon this ball. Also, that he is a public character, and…damac (25)in #kimmeens • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #7/12CHAPTER VI—PICKING UP MISS KIMMEENS {1}The day was by this time waning, when the gate again opened, and, with the brilliant golden light that streamed from the declining sun and…damac (25)in #tobacco • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #6/12Traveller, beginning to smoke, “the unreasoning hardihood of it is something wonderful—even in a man with the dirt upon him an inch or two thick—behind bars—in a blanket and…damac (25)in #hermit • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #5/12When I contemplate a man in a state of disease, surely there is no moral obligation on me to be anxious to know how he took it.”After a short silence, the Hermit bounced up…damac (25)in #traveller • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #4/12There was nothing else in the dark little kitchen, or scullery, or whatever his den had been originally used as, but a table with a litter of old bottles on it. A rat made a…damac (25)in #pond • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #3/12The frosts and damps of winter, and the heats of summer, had warped what wreck remained, so that not a post or a board retained the position it was meant to hold, but everything…damac (25)in #village • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #2/12Some of the small tradesmen’s houses, such as the crockery-shop and the harness-maker, had a Cyclops window in the middle of the gable, within an inch or two of its apex…damac (25)in #peasantry • 4 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #1/12CHAPTER I—PICKING UP SOOT AND CINDERS“And why Tom Tiddler’s ground?” said the Traveller.“Because he scatters halfpence to Tramps and such-like,” returned the Landlord, “and of…