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The Pocket Dickens, Passages Chosen by A.h. Hyatt
The Pocket Dickens Passages Chosen by Ah Hyatt Author:Charles Dickens General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ' I "HERE are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. O OME men, like bats or owls, have better -' eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them. A FTER musing for some minutes, the old gentleman walked, with the same meditative face, into a back anteroom opening from the yard ; and there, retiring into a corner, called up before his mind's eye a vast amphitheatre of faces over which a dusky curtain had hung for many years. ' No," said the old gentleman, shaking his head ; ' it must be imagination.' He (Mr. Brownlow) wandered over them again. He had called them into view, and it was not easy to replace the shroud that had so long concealed them. There were the faces of friends, and foes, and of many that had been almost strangers peering intrusively from the crowd ; there were the faces of young and blooming girls that were now old women ; there were faces that the grave had changed and closed upon, but which the mind, superior to its power, still dressed in their old freshness and beauty, calling back the lustre of the eyes, the brightness of the smile, the beaming of the soul through its mask of clay, and whispering of beauty beyond the tomb, changed but to be heightened, and taken from earth only to be set up as a light, to shed a soft and gentle glow upon the path to Heaven, T T is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the ...« less