old.london (10)in #maid • 6 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #8/9You have not changed your mind because of a little girlish folly—eh, Mr. Grig?”‘Tom, gentlemen, had had his eyes about him, and was pretty sure that all this was a device and…old.london (10)in #grig • 13 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #7/9Grig.”‘ “Too clearly,” cries Tom, sinking into a chair, and giving one hand to the old gentleman, and one to the Gifted. “The orb of day has set on Thomas Grig for ever!”‘At this…old.london (10)in #tom • 22 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #6/9“What do you keep such unpleasant things here for?”‘ “Throw him away!” cries the old gentleman. “We use him constantly in astrology. He’s a charm.”‘ “I shouldn’t have thought…old.london (10)in #tom • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #5/9How do you do, my man?” with which kind and patronising expressions, Tom reached up to pat him on the head, and quoted two lines about little boys, from Doctor Watts’s Hymns…old.london (10)in #stone • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #4/9“She has a graceful carriage, an exquisite shape, a sweet voice, a countenance beaming with animation and expression; and the eye,” he says, rubbing his hands, “of a startled…old.london (10)in #tom • last month[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #3/9He thought it likely enough that he might be saying within himself, “Here’s a new lamplighter—a good-looking young fellow—shall I stand something to drink?” Thinking this…old.london (10)in #emancipation • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #2/9But that emancipation hasn’t come yet, and hadn’t then, and consequently they confined themselves to the bosoms of their families, cooked the dinners, mended the clothes, minded…old.london (10)in #lamplighters • 2 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: The Lamplighter #1/9The LamplighterBy CHARLES DICKENSLONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD.NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS1905‘Ifyou talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, gentlemen,’ said the lamplighter who was…