Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens

the liberality and gratitude of the Norman were as remarkable, as those virtues are usually found to be in great men when they give away what belongs to other people.

Like a sudden flash of memory or spirit kindling up the mind of an old man, it shed a glow upon the scene, in which its departed youth and freshness seemed to live again. The

Being by this time weary of such trifling performances, the boisterous rover hurried away rejoicing, roaring over moor and meadow, hill and flat, until it got out to sea, where it met with other winds similarly disposed, and made a night of

He was a courteous and considerate dragon too; or had been in his distincter days; for in the midst of his rampant feebleness, he kept one of his fore paws near his nose, as though he would say, “Don’t mind me—it’s only my fun;” while he held out the other, in polite and hospitable entreaty. Indeed