Charles Dickens

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel.

Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a
piece of orange-peel.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing read more

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ