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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes, too well-behaved to express their annoyance otherwise than by twitching...

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...y in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-look- ing building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. T... ...nrietta learning Latin, marbles, and trap-ball, and Frederick playing with dolls and working cross-stitch; and even now the custom was so far continue...

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... course. “Caleb Plummer. With care.” Yes, yes, it’s all right. It’s a box of dolls’ eyes for my daughter’s work. I wish it was her own sight in a box,... ...e little man. ‘You speak very hearty. To think that she should never see the Dolls — and them a staring at her, so bold, all day long! That’s where i... ...omehow,’ said Dot. ‘After a hard struggle, I suppose?’ ‘Very.’ Tackleton the Toy merchant, pretty generally known as Gruff and Tackleton for that ... ...re, according to its Dictionary mean ing, in the business Tackleton the Toy merchant, was a man whose vocation had been quite misunderstood by hi... ... freshness and novelty. But, cramped and chafing in the peaceable pursuit of toy making, he was a domestic Ogre, who had been living on children all h... ... nightmare was delicious to him. He had even lost money (and he took to that toy very kindly) by getting up Goblin slides for magic lanterns, whereon... ...bull headed looking boots with mahogany coloured tops. Still, Tackleton, the toy merchant, was going to be mar ried. In spite of all this, he was goi... ...the Hearth Charles Dickens 25 houses in it, finished and unfinished, for Dolls of all sta tions in life. Suburban tenements for Dolls of moderate... ...an tenements for Dolls of moderate means; kitchens and single apartments for Dolls of the lower classes; capital town residences for Dolls of high est...

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...vening, at a merry com pany of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round ... ... where sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-cheeked dolls, hiding behind the green leaves; and there were real watches (with mo... ...e planted on a vast exag- geration of the lazy-tongs that used to bear the toy soldiers, and to be slowly coming close to my eyes, and receding to an ... ... as often, and has never yet stayed by me! Out of this delight springs the toy-theatre,—there it is, with its familiar proscenium, and ladies in feath... .... When he was very little indeed, I used to take him to the windows of the toy-shops, and show him the toys inside. It is surprising how soon he found...

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... treasure of his soul. CHAPTER VI It befell at this period, just before Christmas, that on my having gone under pressure of the season into a great sh... ...lighted at a distance on the bright concretion of Flora Saunt, an exhibitability that held its own even against the most plausible pinkness of the mos... ...t any rate simply looked away; and at this moment one of the shop-girls, who had ap- parently gone off in search of it, bustled up to her with a small... ...had been led to do so, led even through the crowd to press nearer for the purpose, by an impression of which in the act I was not fully conscious. Flo... ...more objects of the same sort. When she reached the indicated spot I was in a position still to observe her. She had asked some question about the wor...

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... eyes, shin- ing flat red faces, blunt noses, and strong black curls, like dolls—interchanged the sentiment that Missis had had her hair combed the wr... ...sage, the latter in extended arms. However, a gen- eral description of the toy-wonders lurking in Mr Boffin’s house, so far conciliated this worldly-m... ...ift of Aladdin’ s palace. They were in a neighbourhood which looked like a toy neighbourhood taken in blocks out of a box by a child of particularly i... ...’ bonnets?’ ‘Fine ladies’,’ said the person of the house, nodding assent. ‘Dolls’. I’m a Doll’s Dressmaker.’ ‘I hope it’s a good business?’ The person... ...t to work as soon as we could use our hands, it would be all over with the dolls’ dressmakers.’ ‘There’ s something in that,’ replied Miss Wren; ‘you ... ...‘is a little dressmaker for little people. Explain to the master, Jenny.’ ‘Dolls; that’s all,’ said Jenny, shortly. ‘Very difficult to fit too, becaus... ...on foot to Mrs Betty Higden’s. But, on the way down, they had stopped at a toy-shop, and had bought that noble charger, a description of whose points ... ...g along, Jenny twisted her venerable friend aside to a brilliantly-lighted toy-shop win- dow, and said: ‘Now look at ‘em! All my work!’ This referred ... ...ce of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure (he looked like a German wooden toy), there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had no 488 Our Mut...

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...ift of Aladdin’ s palace. They were in a neighbourhood which looked like a toy neighbourhood taken in blocks out of a box by a child of particularly i... ...’ bonnets?’ ‘Fine ladies’,’ said the person of the house, nodding assent. ‘Dolls’. I’m a Doll’s Dressmaker.’ ‘I hope it’s a good business?’ The person... ...t to work as soon as we could use our hands, it would be all over with the dolls’ dressmakers.’ ‘There’ s something in that,’ replied Miss Wren; ‘you ... ...‘is a little dressmaker for little people. Explain to the master, Jenny.’ ‘Dolls; that’s all,’ said Jenny, shortly. ‘Very difficult to fit too, becaus... ...on foot to Mrs Betty Higden’s. But, on the way down, they had stopped at a toy-shop, and had bought that noble charger, a description of whose points ... ...: and on all the little beds were little platforms whereon were to be seen dolls’ houses, woolly dogs with mechanical barks in them not very dissimila... ...ouching his destination. He held as straight a course for the house of the dolls’ dressmaker as the wisdom of his ancestors, exemplified in the constr...

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... and the knobs in the Marseilles counterpane with which my fingers used to toy. I have heard my mother tell that whenever I was most languid and suffe... ...his tall, slim granddaughter, carrying her little sister with arms full of dolls, and sundry maid-servants completed the party of fugitives. ‘We are t... ...- ing to console her. ‘It is Celestina Mary,’ she cried, pointing to three dolls whom she had carried in clasped to her breast. ‘Poor Celestina Mary! ... ...was only a doll. The child, while endeavouring to shelter with a shawl the dolls, snatched in their night-gear from their beds, wept so piteously at t... ...leads, after satisfying themselves that Anne was asleep among her homeless dolls. Old Mr. Fordyce devoted himself to keeping up the spirits 96 Chantr... ...ly of all, for her whole nursery establishment had vanished. Her surviving dolls were left homeless, and devoid of all save their night- clothing, whi... ...uld soon effect a cure. The which was quite true, for he had sent her to a toy-shop by one of the maids who had gone to restore the ravage on the ward... ...ll worshipped the el- der, and the little one was like a new discovery and toy to us, who had never been used to such a presence. She was not a common...

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...s! What tramp children do I see here, attired in a hand- ful of rags, making a gymnasium of the shafts of the cart, making a feather-bed of the flints... ... gymnasium of the shafts of the cart, making a feather-bed of the flints and brambles, making a toy of the hobbled old horse who is not much more like... ...ve grown in them, girls have bloomed into women in them, court- ships and marriages have taken place in them. True cham- bers never were young, childi... ...o cool sea-breeze. Mosquitoes and fire-flies are lively enough, but most other creatures are faint. The coquettish airs of pretty young women in the t... ...hey go clean away! And now I think of it, the wonder is, that every working- day pervader of these scenes goes clean away. The man who sells the dogs’... ...ed off it, looking meekly and inoffensively out of proportion, like the Giraffe of the machinery creation. The store of cannon on the neighbouring gun... ... the machinery creation. The store of cannon on the neighbouring gun-wharf, had an innocent toy-like appearance, and the one red-coated sen- try on du... ...n at the turntables, if I had had the luck! Ravishing perfumery also, and sweetmeats, I might have speculated in, or I might have fired for prizes at ... ...is hat, looking over his shoulder at them airily from time to time to see that no member of the party has got lost, or has tumbled down; as if they we...

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...t ere you marry, should have learned the mingled lesson of the world: that dolls are stuffed with sawdust, and yet are excellent play-things; that hop... ...odily upon the carpet, before his imagination is satisfied. Lead soldiers, dolls, all toys, in short, are in the same category and an- 102 Robert Lou... ...can live on equal terms with his lead soldiery, and go a cruise in his own toy schooner? Surely all these are practical ques- tions to a neophyte ente...

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... an acquaintance with this little damsel in the morning, and professed much interest in her dolls, and an impatient desire to see the large one which ... ... not been very long in the parlour before the door opened, and in came Miss Lizzie with two dolls tucked clumsily under her arm. She was fol- lowed by... ...play propriety at our interview, but to show his own two whips in emulation of his sister’s dolls. I did my best to make myself agreeable to my visito... ...s. I did my best to make myself agreeable to my visitors, show- ing much admiration for the dolls and dolls’ dresses, and, with a very serious demeano... ...as both bewil- dered and a little contemptuous. Although she was ready herself to treat her dolls as if they were alive, she seemed to think rather po... ...k like white sea-birds; even on outlying reefs there would be a little cock of snow, like a toy lighthouse. Everything was grey and white in a cold an...

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...drew nearer, became more and more sug- gestive of a raid of pigmies upon a dolls’ house that has been left in a neglected corner of some great garden.... ...of willow beside the streams; ricks of hay no higher than a giant’s knees, dolls’ cottages with diamond panes, brickfields, and straggling village str... ... their sight, looked by contrast with them like some small-sized automatic toy. “They have made all the woods this side of Ightham out of bounds,” sai... ...e wild flights to them, and all they deem great and wonderful no more than dolls’ pyramids to us. Their pettiness of method and appliance and imaginat...

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...enty of ‘em and ammunition to correspond, under the whirligigs and the mud dolls.” “Heaven help you if you are caught with those things!” I said. “A M...

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...ing him see himself, dwarfed before the scorn with which you flung him his toy, as you might toss a tiger its food. The only thing I have taken for my... ...avel, no broken toys littered about the courtyard? Shall I never visit the toy-shops, as mothers do, to buy swords, and dolls, and baby-houses? And wi... ...yard? Shall I never visit the toy-shops, as mothers do, to buy swords, and dolls, and baby-houses? And will it never be mine to watch the unfolding of...

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...cer was Tott. Being the kind of neat little woman it was natural to make a toy of—I never saw a woman so like a toy in my life—she had got the playthi... ...e gentlemen and fine ladies, Harry?” I says to Charker. “Y es, I think so! Dolls! Dolls! Not the sort of stuff for wear, that comes of poor private so...

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...e rest o’ the trip, an, now he’ s to home in Essex playin’ with little rag dolls.” Harvey choked with rage, but Troop went on consolingly: “We’re sorr... ...swell came up an entirely new line of charac- ters like paper figures in a toy theatre. So Harvey stared. “Watch out!” said Dan, flourishing a dip-net...

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...lways ready to cover my retreat with some agreeable pleasantry, which would often earn me the name of an ‘oddity’ or a ‘droll fellow.’ In this way, al... ... hold her; but I was now not sorry she should go: an impression is a thing so delicate to produce and so easy to overthrow! Presently she seemed to ma... ... was close to my great-uncle’s; I had no more fear of Mr. Dudgeon; which were all grounds enough for jollity. And I was aware, besides, of us two as o...

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...de- tail—saw it just as the birds see it—and all reduced to the smallest of scales and as sharply worked out and finished as a steel engraving. The nu... ...od-sized handkerchief would have answered for a drop-curtain; the footlights consisted of a couple of candle-ends an inch long; various manikins the s... ...nly the right sum. So I made a note—Italian omni- bus conductors do not cheat. Near the Cathedral I saw another instance of probity. An old man was pe... ...ght sum. So I made a note—Italian omni- bus conductors do not cheat. Near the Cathedral I saw another instance of probity. An old man was peddling dol... ... back, and the franc and one of the coppers were restored to them. Hence it is plain that in Italy, parties connected with the drama and the omnibus a...

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...It is an excel- lent thing, meets an actual want; it holds a place between dolls and sugar-plums, the two eternal necessities of child- hood. “I have ...

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..., overflowing with a Slovene iron-miner’s family, are littered with shoes, dolls, whisky bottles, bundles wrapped in newspapers, a sewing bag. The old... ...aloon, I heard a German farm- wife beg her husband for a quarter, to get a toy for the baby—and he refused. Just now I’ve heard Mrs. Dyer go- ing thro... ...s that moon- lit January night, twenty of them in the bob-sled. They sang “Toy Land” and “Seeing Nelly Home”; they leaped from the low back of the sle... ...ise of accomplish- ment in the future, shrine of adoration—and a diverting toy. “I thought I’d be a dilettante mother, but I’m as dismayingly natural ... ... stand, a merry-go-round, and booths in which balls might be thrown at rag dolls, if one wished to throw balls at rag dolls. The dignified delegates w...

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...ered, and withdrawn it when she was mar ried. Down the street, there is a toy ship of considerable burden, in the same condition. Two of the boys who... ...r the remaining two were there—getting themselves entangled with hoops and dolls—familiar mysteries to the children—prob ably in the eyes of most of ... ... now—and sat by himself on a little solitary bench, with the hoops and the dolls as lively as ever all about him. In the Place d’Armes of this town, a...