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Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
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I ♥️ my family! Mom and husband gave me all nonfiction books, which I love!!

BookishMarginalia Those look great! Enjoy! 2w
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Chemistry teacher Redlaw continually bemoans everything about his life. When his phantom self offers to remove all his “sorrow, wrong, and trouble,” he accepts, along with the gift of removing those memories from others. Off he goes to share his gift with his down-and-out student. Quickly he learns this “gift” helps no one and makes life far worse. Yet he can‘t help but “sharing” the gift in the presence of those close to him. Finally he begs ⬇️

Texreader The ghost to take back the gift, who says it cannot be taken back. But miracles do happen, and Redlaw learns that bitter memories make happiness all the sweeter. Reminiscent of Scrooge, this is a shorter story without as much sentiment but with Dickens‘ gorgeous descriptions of people and places. #whattheDickens @cuilin 2w
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Final #wordoftheday Glad I looked up this one. I‘d been using it incorrectly.

“Besides which, another little boy — the biggest there, but still little — was tottering to and fro, bent on one side, and considerably affected in his knees by the weight of a large baby, which he was supposed by a fiction that obtains sometimes in sanguine families, to be hushing to sleep.”

Leniverse I've just read two books in a crime series where the detective keeps morosely saying that the case is a difficult one and he's "not sanguine. Not sanguine at all." ? 2w
Texreader @Leniverse Having the definition your quote makes all the more sense to me! 2w
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Fourth #wordoftheday Lots of looking up Dickens‘ vocabulary:

“Softening more and more, as his own tender feelings and those of his injured son were worked on, Mr. Tetterby concluded by embracing him, and immediately breaking away to catch one of the real delinquents. A reasonably good start occurring, he succeeded, after a short but smart run, and… ⬇️

Texreader “some rather severe cross-country work under and over the bedsteads, and in and out among the intricacies of the chairs, in capturing this infant, whom he condignly punished, and bore to bed.” 2w
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Third #wordoftheday I ♥️ Dickens‘ use of the word here:

“Mrs. Tetterby, without any remark, but with a decided subsidence of her animosity towards the table, finished her preparations, and took, from her ample basket, a substantial slab of hot pease pudding wrapped in paper, and a basin covered with a saucer, which, on being uncovered, sent forth an odour so agreeable,… ⬇️

Texreader “that the three pair of eyes in the two beds opened wide and fixed themselves upon the banquet.” 2w
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Second #wordoftheday

“Mr. Edmund, would you rather be alone?”

“There is no reason why I should detain you here,” he replied.

“Except —” said Milly, hesitating, and showing her work.

“Oh! the curtain,” he answered, with a supercilious laugh. “That‘s not worth staying for.”

Doll8455 Actually, the hobo was a blight on the neighborhood. I‘m wondering if his presence is a condignly on the neighborhood‘s pessimism. Also he could have caused the subsidence of land in the center if Mr. Fist‘s back yard. I began to feel sanguine about all because of the hobo‘s supercilious grin. @Texreader 1w
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#wordoftheday Going with the 2nd definition:

““Give me back myself!” exclaimed Redlaw like a madman. “I am infected! I am infectious! I am charged with poison for my own mind, and the minds of all mankind. Where I felt interest, compassion, sympathy, I am turning into stone. Selfishness and ingratitude spring up in my blighting footsteps… ⬇️

Texreader “I am only so much less base than the wretches whom I make so, that in the moment of their transformation I can hate them.” 2w
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Second #wordoftheday

“When the old trees outside were so shaken and beaten, that one querulous old rook, unable to sleep, protested now and then, in a feeble, dozy, high-up “Caw!” When, at intervals, the window trembled, the rusty vane upon the turret-top complained, the clock beneath it recorded that another quarter of an hour was gone, or the fire collapsed and fell in with a rattle.”

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

Doll8455 The hobo got in my face querulously complaining he couldn‘t get his money. He was so close his image was bleared. He was afraid someone was going to ambuscade him and take his lottery ticket. I wasn‘t sure I wanted him next to me—- 2w
Doll8455 Above is continuing saga—@Texreader 2w
Texreader @Doll8455 wow! So many words in one story!! Nicely played! 2w
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#wordoftheday

“When the wind was blowing, shrill and shrewd, with the going down of the blurred sun. When it was just so dark, as that the forms of things were indistinct and big — but not wholly lost. When sitters by the fire began to see wild faces and figures, mountains and abysses, ambuscades and armies, in the coals.”

#whattheDickens @Cuilin