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damac (25)in #miss • 7 hours ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #9/12
With 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…
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damac (25)in #pupil • 11 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #8/12
Also, 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…
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damac (25)in #kimmeens • 19 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #7/12
CHAPTER 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…
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damac (25)in #tobacco • 25 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #6/12
Traveller, 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…
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damac (25)in #hermit • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #5/12
When 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…
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damac (25)in #traveller • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #4/12
There 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…
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damac (25)in #pond • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #3/12
The 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…
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damac (25)in #village • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #2/12
Some 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…
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damac (25)in #peasantry • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Tom Tiddler's Ground #1/12
CHAPTER 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…
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