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novellibrary (8)in #forgive • 6 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #13/435
‘Do you mean that a prisoner forgives his prison?’ said she, slowly and with emphasis.‘That was my speculation, Miss Wade. I don’t pretend to know positively how a prisoner might…
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novellibrary (8)in #childhood • 21 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #12/435
Trained by main force; broken, not bent; heavily ironed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before…
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novellibrary (8)in #beadle • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #11/435
Whenever I see a beadle in full fig, coming down a street on a Sunday at the head of a charity school, I am obliged to turn and run away, or I should hit him. The name of Beadle…
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novellibrary (8)in #tattycoram • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #10/435
Tattycoram, stick you close to your young mistress.’He spoke to a handsome girl with lustrous dark hair and eyes, and very neatly dressed, who replied with a half curtsey as she…
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novellibrary (8)in #marseilles • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #9/435
CHAPTER 2 Fellow TravellersNo more of yesterday’s howling over yonder to-day, Sir; is there?’‘I have heard none.’‘Then you may be sure there isnone. When these people howl, they…
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novellibrary (8)in #rigaud • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #8/435
‘Now, Monsieur Rigaud,’ said he, pausing for a moment at the grate, with his keys in his hands, ‘have the goodness to come out.’‘I am to depart in state, I see?’‘Why, unless you…
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novellibrary (8)in #madame • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #7/435
Unfortunately, the property of Madame Rigaud was settled upon herself. Such was the insane act of her late husband. More unfortunately still, she had relations. When a wife’s…
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novellibrary (8)in #gentleman • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #6/435
A gentleman I am! And a gentleman I’ll live, and a gentleman I’ll die! It’s my intent to be a gentleman. It’s my game. Death of my soul, I play it out wherever I go!’He changed…
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novellibrary (8)in #rigaud • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #5/435
Of all the king’s knights ‘tis the flower,Always gay!’Which accompanied them so far down the few steep stairs, that the prison-keeper had to stop at last for his little daughter…
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novellibrary (8)in #bird • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #4/435
‘I have brought your bread, Signor John Baptist,’ said he (they all spoke in French, but the little man was an Italian); ‘and if I might recommend you not to game—’‘You don’t…
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novellibrary (8)in #beasts • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #3/435
The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled. He jerked his great cloak more heavily upon him by an impatient movement of one shoulder, and growled, ‘To the devil…
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novellibrary (8)in #staring • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #2/435
The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes. These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved…
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novellibrary (8)in #1857 • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit #1/435
PREFACE TO THE 1857 EDITIONIhave been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and…
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