Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins
- ISBN-10
- 1230231978
- ISBN-13
- 9781230231976
- Pages
- 30
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Charles Dickens
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... thing, and yet the dog's well enough. Then, sir, there is Forster; he understands many things, and yet the fellow is fretful. Again, sir, there is Dickens, with a facile way with him--like Davy, sir, like Davy--yet I am told that the man is lying at a hedge alehouse by the sea-shore in Kent, as long as they will trust him. Boswell: But there are no hedges by the sea in Kent, sir. Johnson: And why not, sir? Boswell (at a loss): I don't know, sir, unless-- Johnson (thundering): Let us have no unlesses, sir. If your father had never said "unless," he would never have begotten you, sir. Boswell (yielding): Sir, that is very true. Of course I am dull and penitent here, but it is very beautiful. I can work well, and I walked, by the cliffs, to Folkestone and back to-day, when it was so exquisitely beautiful that, though I was alone, I could not keep silence on the subject. In the fourteen miles I doubt if I met twelve people. They say this house is full, yet I meet nobody, save now and then a languishing youth in a loose, very blue coat, lounging at the door and sucking the round head of a cane, as if he were trying the fit before he had it cut off from the stem as a pill, and swallowed it. I hope--begin to hope--that somewhere about the 12th of June will see me out of the book [Great Expectations]. I am anxious for some days at Gad's Hill, and settlement of Christmas No. with you. The idea I have will certainly do, I think, and save us a quantity of beating about. At the end of this next week I will write again. I think we may book Wednesday Week, safely, for the office. I can hardly see, it is getting so dark. [Benjamin] Webster is a thorough good fellow. You know how often I have said so. There are better and finer qualities in him than in a...
