Charles Dickens – The Man Behind the Classics

but the general feeling among the females seemed to be one of uneasiness during the period of our stay among them: which was very brief.

regularity when they are not in use.
The women rose hastily, on our entrance, and retired in a hurried manner to either side of the fireplace. They were all cleanly—many of them decently—attired, and there was nothing peculiar, either in their appearance or demeanour.

which are kept perfectly bright, and displayed on shelves in great order and regular

Talk to them of parental solicitude, the happy days of childhood, and the merry games of infancy!

the very existence of which, should make men’s hearts bleed.

with her pinched-up, half-starved features twisted into an expression of careful cunning.

was communicating some instructions to her visitor—her daughter evidently

their eyes, and within their hearing, than if they were blind and deaf.

Heaven knows there were enough of them, in the persons of the other prisoners in the yard, who were no more concerned by what was passing before

The girl was perfectly unmoved.