Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Dickens "Only" a Great Story Teller?

"What have you got to say next?" asks Mr. Bucket. "Now, don't open your mouth too wide, because you don't look handsome when you do it."
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"Get on my lad!"
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"Get on my lads!"
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"Get on my lads!"
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"The gloom augments; the bright gas springs up in the streets; and the pertinacious oil lamps which yet hold their ground there, with their source of life half frozen and half thawed, twinkle gaspingly, like fiery fish out of water--as they are."