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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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...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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...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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..., 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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...house was an old-fashioned cupboard with glass doors, where certain tender dolls, and other curi- osities, playthings too frail to be played with and ... ...raulein Munsterthal would be cross; they wondered if Ida still played with dolls; and they looked as if they thought themselves wonderful, too, for go... ..., where there was a grand doll’s feast. Ida had no less than twenty- three dolls, ranging from the magnificent Rosalind, who had real hair that could ... ...ng, so perhaps would Annie. However, they were all very happy, getting the dolls up in the morning, giving Mildred washing enough for all the twenty-t... ...walked away with the half sovereign squeezed into his hot little palm. The toy-shop was at the end of the street, and in they went; Johnnie to try all... ...m? Just ten shillings and sixpence. They were very cheap, the woman of the toy-shop said. They had been ordered by an old lady at her grandson’s entre... ... David was sure he shouldn’t spoil his wood, Purday had told him that them toy-shop young gentleman’s tools were made to sell, and not made to cut. Be...

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... of a magistrate on the bench. When the little girls had passed the age of dolls and toys, when they began, about twelve, to use their minds (an epoch...

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...on), which some highest-bred housewife, sitting at Nurnberg Work-boxes and Toy-boxes, has grace- fully fastened on; to the thick-tanned hide, girt rou... ...le Maid again, provident of her domestic destiny, takes with preference to Dolls.” Perhaps, however, we may give this anecdote, consider- ing who it i... ...somed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toy-box, the fair Town, where so many souls, as it were seen and yet unseen...

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... the worst business of all. Ethel, are they too big for Mary to dress some dolls for them?’ ‘I will try to find out their tastes the first thing to-mo... ...set together, Mary with a basket in her hand, which was replenished at the toy-shop in Minster Street with two china-faced dolls, and, a little farthe... ...ich was replenished at the toy-shop in Minster Street with two china-faced dolls, and, a little farther on, parted with a couple of rolls, intersperse... ...Mary spent the next hour in amusing the children by the fabrication of the dolls’ wardrobe, and had made them ex- 23 Yo n g e ceedingly fond of her, ... ...ome in the evening. ‘Don’t let it be your sister. You come, and finish our dolls’ frocks!’ and they hung about her, kissing her, and trying to extract... ... thoughts of awe or grief, and the small minds were chiefly fixed upon the dolls, as the one bright spot in the dreary day. Mary yielded, and worked a... ...aster. ‘Stupid little thing,’ said Aubrey; ‘just like an undersized lady’s toy.’ ‘It knows its friends. These little things have twice the sense of ov... ... they chose. ‘Your volunteers!’ cried Cora, her eyes flashing; ‘theirs was toy work! These are bound for real patriotic war!’ and she clasped her hand...

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...eglected the minor accomplishments. Finding herself inferior to the pretty dolls who played on the piano and made themselves agreeable by singing ball... ...rated, a glance might have told an observer that she had never played with dolls. T oward the close of the year 1817 Felicite des T ouches be- gan to ... ... of over-reaching her, was she being over- reached herself? was she only a toy, a pleasure, which Camille was giving to her child, whom she loved with... ...According to your theory, the more I am a woman the more I make myself his toy; for I am, and I know it, horribly weak in my happiness; I cannot resis...

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...ometans in red caps and big trou- sers, more business going on than in the toy quarter, and in the Atmeidan. Although you may see there the Thebaic st... ...ppy-dog, which he is hugging in his arms as young ladies in our country do dolls. All the neighbourhood of the Atmeidan is exceedingly pic- turesque—t...

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...indulgent parents and his nursery was crowded with hideous rag and sawdust dolls, golliwogs, comic penguins, comic lions, comic elephants and comic po... ...xperienced something of the blank amaze- ment of a child who has burst its toy balloon. His golden globe of satisfaction in an instant had gone. An ir...

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...all puffed up, as they naturally are, by a sense of their importance, with dolls and toys and Punch-and-Judys, as in the days of our unsophisticated i...

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... sort of pleasure in us, I sup- pose, that they might have had in a pretty toy, or a pocket model of the Colosseum. 49 David Copperfield Vol. I I s... ... seen David Copperfield out of the world, who was always running after wax dolls from his cradle. She had got a baby oh, there were a pair of babies w... ... she give me this to carry for her knowing what she brought it for? Such a toy as it is! said Ham, thoughtfully look- ing on it. With such a little ... ...r her, which had ten guineas in it and some silver. We made a pause at the toy shop in Fleet Street, to see the giants of Saint Dunstan s strike upon ...

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...dren make me a grandmother, I shall look on the love of men and women as a toy that I have played with. A new husband? I must be dragged through the C... ...d hinge; and right, left, right, left, to it, 438 Vittoria confound! like dolls all wiz one face. Look at your soldiers, Powys. Put zem on a stage, a... ...l in it. She is not in it at all. She is a little woman, a lovely thing, a toy, a cantatrice. Joy to the big heart of Barto Rizzo! I am for Brescia!” ...

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...rning her too heartily for them to have any fear that she was other than a toy to him. Few women are aware with how much ease sentimental men can laug... ... beyond 90 Sandra Belloni the mark), after a successful exhibition of his dolls, handed them to the company, with the observation, “satisfy your- sel...

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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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... 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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...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...