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Do not repine, my friends, said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. Do not weep for me. It is chronic.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Charles Dickens
Friendship, Said, My Friends
Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, Vol. I”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens
Tombstone, Wind, Iron
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

"It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."

Charles Dickens
Lying, Night, Men
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens
Boys, Want, Flesh
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.64

"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

Charles Dickens
Past, People, Water
David Copperfield ch. 30 (1850)

As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens
Wall, Night, Men
Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

Charles Dickens
Dust, Tea, Foundation
CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.34

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Charles Dickens
Love, Daughter, Heart
charles dickens (1868). “a tale of two cities”, p.122

If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

Charles Dickens
Love, Giving Up, Memories
Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.505

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

Charles Dickens
Love, Husband, Eye
Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...”, p.260

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

Charles Dickens
Love, Lonely, Ideas
Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.392

"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

Charles Dickens
Love, Running, Selfish
Charles Dickens (1890*). “Works”

I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Hands
Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.543

"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."

Charles Dickens
Love, Kissing, Lips
Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.217

"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity.

Charles Dickens
Love, Passion, Looks
Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.270

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

Charles Dickens
Love, Self Love
Charles Dickens (1841). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty”, p.74

Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.

Charles Dickens
Love, Heart, Dark
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.71

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

Charles Dickens
Love, Suffering, Flight
Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.241

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

Charles Dickens
Love, Wife, Said
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

Charles Dickens
Love, Sake, Helping
Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.238

"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"

Charles Dickens
Love, Couple, Party
Charles Dickens (2017). “Life and Times of Charles Dickens: Autobiographical Novels, Stories, London Society Sketches, Travel Memoirs, Letters & Biographies (Illustrated): David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, American Notes, Pictures From Italy, Reprinted Pieces, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, My Father as I Recall Him by Mamie Dickens…”, p.461, e-artnow

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

Charles Dickens
Love, Teaching, Aunt
Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

Charles Dickens
Love, Sea, Land
Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens
Love, Missing, Principles
Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.1101, Graphic Arts Books

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Charles Dickens
Love, Home, Loving You
Jan Fields, Charles Dickens (2010). “David Copperfield”, p.1738, Calico Chapter Books

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