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novels (8)in #orphan • 10 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree
She was surprised; but she was a woman of remarkable strength of mind, and she dressed herself and went downstairs, and closeted herself with her brother. “Now, Walter,” she…
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novels (8)in #elizabethan • 20 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #8/9
In course of time, this compact was forgotten by our friend; the two young men having progressed in life, and taken diverging paths that were wide asunder. But, one night…
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novels (8)in #servant • 22 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #7/9
We hurry on our dressing-gown, seize our pistols (we always travel with pistols), and are following, when we find the door locked. We turn the key, look out into the dark…
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novels (8)in #trees • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #6/9
We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday—the longer, the better—from the great boarding-school, where we are for ever working at our arithmetical slates…
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novels (8)in #clown • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #5/9
Or now, I learn with bitter tears how poor Jane Shore, dressed all in white, and with her brown hair hanging down, went starving through the streets; or how George Barnwell…
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novels (8)in #tarts • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #4/9
Tarts are made, according to the recipe of the Vizier’s son of Bussorah, who turned pastrycook after he was set down in his drawers at the gate of Damascus; cobblers are all…
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novels (8)in #frog • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #3/9
And if I did once shriek out, as a poisoned child, and strike the fashionable company with consternation, by reason of having drunk a little teaspoon, inadvertently dissolved…
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novels (8)in #mask • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #2/9
Who put it on, and why was I so frightened that the sight of it is an era in my life? It is not a hideous visage in itself; it is even meant to be droll, why then were its…
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novels (8)in #tree • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Christmas Tree #1/9
A Christmas Tree I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the…
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