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@narratives Apr 19, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #15/43

All these busy figures between decks, dimly seen bending at their work in smoke and fire, are as nothing to the figures that shall do work here of another kind in smoke and fire, that day. These stea…

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@narratives Apr 3, 2026, 7:16 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #14/43

I had seen the sheaved corn carrying in the golden fields as I came down to the river; and the rosy farmer, watching his labouring-men in the saddle on his cob, had told me how he had reaped his two…

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@narratives Mar 18, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #13/43

Chatham Dockyard There are some small out-of-the-way landing-places on the Thames and the Medway, where I do much of my summer idling. Running water is favourable to day-dreams, and a strong tidal ri…

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@narratives Mar 7, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #12/43

The lights were turned out while the sparks died out, and it appeared to me as if the whole play – ship, donkey, men and women, divine little creature, and all – were a wonderful firework that had go…

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@narratives Feb 22, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #11/43

Then, I pictured to myself the being called upon to come down on the stage and receive the donkey. I thought how all the people would shriek when they saw it had fallen to a little fellow like me. Ho…

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@narratives Feb 12, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #10/43

BLORES, WOODENLEGWALK, TOBACCO-STOPPERROW, WAPPING.And I couldn’t rub it out. I recollect resting in a little churchyard after this persecution, disposed to think upon the whole, that if I and the ob…

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@narratives Feb 9, 2026, 3:48 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #9/43

Had I the least idea what was meant by such terms as jobbery, rigging the market, cooking accounts, getting up a dividend, making things pleasant, and the like? Not the slightest. Should I have detec…

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@narratives Jan 28, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #8/43

Now, when I saw this dog I thought of Whittington, and felt that things were coming right; I encouraged him by saying, ‘Hi, boy!’ ‘Poor fellow!’ ‘Good dog!’ and was satisfied that he was to be my dog…

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@narratives Jan 20, 2026, 6:00 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #7/43

These were, first to go (as a species of investment) and see the Giants in Guildhall, out of whom I felt it not improbable that some prosperous adventure would arise; failing that contingency, to try…

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@narratives Jan 10, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: Night Walks #6/43

Gone Astray When I was a very small boy indeed, both in years and stature, I got lost one day in the City of London. I was taken out by Somebody (shade of Somebody forgive me for remembering no more…

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