Charles Dickens

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

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

Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick read more

Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to
swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting
down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, "You know,
Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat.
Therefore what does that signify to me?"

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated."

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart
that had better not be wibrated."

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.