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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...er hand upon her own bosom, look- ing at the girl, as one afflicted with a diseased part might curi- ously watch the dissection and exposition of an a... ...up the snuffers, and, be- fore applying them to the cabbage-headed candle, lunged at the sleeper as though he would have run him through the body. 47... ... life, hardly stronger than theirs, appeared among the multitude of lesser deaths. ‘A very nice little girl indeed,’ said the doctor; ‘little, but wel... ...e. The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are al- ways in the rule of Subtraction as to t... ...ine.’ Relieved by having got to this, Mr Pancks took as long a pull as his lungs would permit at his Eastern pipe, and looked sagaciously and steadily... ...dy after the manner of fireworks, he had had something the matter with his lungs, he had had some- thing the matter with his heart, he had had somethi...

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...ere the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Y orkshire school... ... that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional f... ... can gang to bed and not tellee, for weedur’s sak’, to keep the lattle boy from a’ sike scoondrels while there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a g... ...places, involving such offensive and foul details of neglect, cruelty, and disease, as no writer of fiction would have the boldness to imagine. And th... ...’s complaint was, ma’am.’ ‘The doctors could attribute it to no particular disease,’ said Mrs Nickleby; shedding tears. ‘We have too much reason to fe... ...rresistibly ridiculous, but for the foul appearance of dirt, disorder, and disease, with which they were associated. ‘Now,’ said Squeers, giving the d... ...arl fruit knife, wherewith, in proof of her desperate thoughts, she made a lunge as she spoke, which would have scarcely disturbed the crumb of a half... ...oment; and although the whole din appeared to be raised by but one pair of lungs, yet that one pair was of so powerful a quality, and repeated such wo... ... could have moved me like the loss of this great sum. Nothing. For births, deaths, marriages, and all the events which are of interest to most men, ha...

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...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...e mourners entered the publican’s house, where Kilne, after summoning them from behind the bar, on the impor- tant question, what it should be? and re... ...a poor chap six- pence.’ The postillion laughed hollow from the end of his lungs. ‘Sixpence for a night’s work! It is a joke, if you don’t mean it for... ... hand, as he held it up at the breakfasttable, reading it, I saw among the deaths, Sir Abraham Harrington, of Torquay, Baronet, of quinsy! Twice that ... ... length out of the machine; but his comrade, with a determined blow of the lungs, gave another valiant pull, and George Stokes was on his legs, marvel... ...lt scornful princesses. He tried to be hon- est, and was as much so as his disease permitted. The black cloud had swallowed the sun; and turning off t... ...’s fault but there is no doubt among the faculty that love is a contagious disease, and we ought not to come within miles of the creatures in whom it ... ...n object of pity to Rose. Some excellent and noble natures cannot tolerate disease, and are mystified by its ebullitions. It was very sad to see the s...

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... AT LAST!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his great- coat and rousing Smike from a long nap. ‘It seemed to me as though we should never reach it.’ ‘And... ...ing lights, and illuminated besides with the brilliant flood that streamed from the windows of the shops, where spar- kling jewellery, silks and velve... ...assed before the eye. Emporiums of splendid dresses, the materials brought from every quarter of the world; tempt- ing stores of everything to stimula... ...oment; and although the whole din appeared to be raised by but one pair of lungs, yet that one pair was of so powerful a quality, and repeated such wo... ... feeble and exhausted, to escape their regard and notice. There is a dread disease which so prepares its victim, as it were, for death; which so refin... ... around familiar looks unearthly indications of the coming change; a dread disease, in which the struggle between soul and body is so gradual, quiet, ... ...nd, feeling immortality at hand, deems it but a new term of mortal life; a disease in which death and life are so strangely blended, that death takes ... ... could have moved me like the loss of this great sum. Nothing. For births, deaths, marriages, and all the events which are of interest to most men, ha...