Excerpt from A Day With Charles Dickens It was a glorious June morning in the year 1857. The scarlet geraniums, dear for their brilliance and colour to their master's heart, were in full flamboyance of flower; the syringas were sending wafts of sweetness through the garden: lovely shadows lay beneath the two great cedar trees, - when a smallish, active, brown-bearded man, strongly resembling a sea-captain ashore, came out to survey his little domain, in all its pomp of midsummer, while yet the dew was on it: for there was ...
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Excerpt from A Day With Charles Dickens It was a glorious June morning in the year 1857. The scarlet geraniums, dear for their brilliance and colour to their master's heart, were in full flamboyance of flower; the syringas were sending wafts of sweetness through the garden: lovely shadows lay beneath the two great cedar trees, - when a smallish, active, brown-bearded man, strongly resembling a sea-captain ashore, came out to survey his little domain, in all its pomp of midsummer, while yet the dew was on it: for there was to him, as he had said, "something incomparably solemn in the still solitude of the morning." It is seldom that the man in his maturity may fulfil the half-impossible aspirations of boyhood: but Charles Dickens had done this to the very letter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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