DRAWN BY DICKENS.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

DRAWN BY DICKENS.

A gracious change has come over I'enJHmin from head to foot. He was much broader, much redder, mm it more cheerful, nnd much j'lllin- in all repocta. It seemrd as if his fare had been tifd up in a knot before, and was now untwisted I) nil smoothed out. — " Bat tie of Life," chapter 2 By my soul, the countenance of that fellow when he was a boy was the blackest image of perfidy, rowardicp, and cruelty ever set upas ;i bcare in a field of scoundrels If I was to meet that most unparelled despot in the streets to-morrow I would {ell him like a rotten tree. — " Bleak House," chapter 6. He was tall, thin, and pale ; he always fancied he had a severe pain somewhere or other, and his face invariably wore a pinched, Rcrewed up expression, like a man who had suddenly got his feet in a tub of exceedingly hot water, against his will." —"Tales," chapter 1. At the word su«pppr, she turned her eyes momentarily upon her son, with a dark frown, as if the sculptor of old Egypt had indented it in the hard granite faco, to frown for ages — " Mrs Clennam," in " Little Don-it," book 1 , chapter 5. Mrs Varden slightly raised her hands, shook her head, and looked at the ground, as though she saw straight through the globe, out at the other end, and into the immensity of space beyond. — " Barnaby Itudge," chapter 27. '• I told you not to bang the door so," repeated Dumps, with an expression of countenance like the knave of clubs in convulsions — •' Tales," chapter 2. All his features seemed, with delight, to be going up into his forehead, aud never coming back again anymore. — " Martin Chuzzlewit," chapter 13. With a face that might have been carved out of lignum vitfe, for anything that appeared to the contary. — '■ Nicholas Nickleby," chapter 14. • • • The yellow face with its grotesque action, and the ferret eyes with their keen, cold, wintry gaze. — " Dombey and Son. " — Amusing Journal.