"The lady was not young and fresh from the hand of Nature, but was young and fresh by the hand of her maid." -p.238
""Mr. Merdle took down a countess who was secluded somewhere in the core of an immense dress, to which she was in the proportion of the heart to the overgrown cabbage. If so low a simile may be admitted, the dress went down the staircase like a richly brocaded Jack in the Green, and nobody knew what sort of small person carried it." -p.248
Noting that on p.248, Dickens mentions St. John's, New Brunswick, as the place of Mr. Sparkler's birth, I hasten to correct Mr. Dickens's geography, being that I live and work in and out of the city, and am quite certain that it is called Saint John, in New Brunswick, and that St. John's would be a rather large seaport or rather small big city on the island of Newfoundland, more than a good stone's throw away.
"The lady was not young and fresh from the hand of Nature, but was young and fresh by the hand of her maid." -p.238
""Mr. Merdle took down a countess who was secluded somewhere in the core of an immense dress, to which she was in the proportion of the heart to the overgrown cabbage. If so low a simile may be admitted, the dress went down the staircase like a richly brocaded Jack in the Green, and nobody knew what sort of small person carried it." -p.248
Noting that on p.248, Dickens mentions St. John's, New Brunswick, as the place of Mr. Sparkler's birth, I hasten to correct Mr. Dickens's geography, being that I live and work in and out of the city, and am quite certain that it is called Saint John, in New Brunswick, and that St. John's would be a rather large seaport or rather small big city on the island of Newfoundland, more than a good stone's throw away.