Chapter X: CONTAINING STRANGE MATTER; ON WHICH MANY EVENTS IN THIS HISTORY, MAY, FOR THEIR GOOD OR EVIL INFLUENCE, CHIEFLY DEPEND
Charles H. Dickens · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009
But Mr. Pecksniff came to town on business. Had he forgotten that? Was he always taking his pleasure with Todgers’s jovial brood, unmindful of the serious demands, whatever they might be, upon his calm consideration? No. Time and tide will wait for no man, saith...