“You to marry a second time without family! You to marry without beauty! You to marry without dignity! You to marry without connection! There is nobody in the world, not mad, who could dream of daring to entertain such a preposterous idea”! “Dombey and Son”, “Charles Dickens
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RKS Literature 2023: Woman by Day Skeleton at Night (Charles Dickens)
“Thus they remained for a long hour, without a word, until Mrs Skewton’s maid appeared, according to custom, to prepare her gradually for the night. At night she should have been a skeleton, with dart and hour-glass, rather than a woman, this attendant; for her touch was as the touch of Death. The painted objectContinue reading “RKS Literature 2023: Woman by Day Skeleton at Night (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Mrs. Dombey’s Mourning Period (Charles Dickens)
“That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who’d have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn’t hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mrs. Dombey’s Mourning Period (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Mr. Dombey’s Wife as a Chattel (Charles Dickens)
“He was not a man of whom it could properly be said that he was ever startled or shocked; but he certainly had a sense within him, that if his wife should sicken and decay, he would be very sorry and that he would find something gone from among his plate and furniture, and otherContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mr. Dombey’s Wife as a Chattel (Charles Dickens)”
Passage of the Day: Charles Dicken’s “Bleak House”
“Wintry morning looking with dull eyes and sallow face upon the neighbourhood of Leicester Square finds its inhabitants unwilling to get out of bed. Many of them are not early risers at the best of times, being birds of the night who roost when the sun is high are wide awake and keen for preyContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dicken’s “Bleak House””
Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law
“Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity: law finds it can’t do this, equity finds it can’t do that: neither can so much as say it can’t do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and soContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law”
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