There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber…she was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages for Miss Blimber. They must be dead—stone dead—and then Miss Blimber dug them up like a Ghoul.


Dombey and Son (1848) ch. 11

Charles Dickens Quotes

There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber…she was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages...

There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber…she was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages...

There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber…she was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages...

There was no light nonsense about Miss Blimber…she was dry and sandy with working in the graves of deceased languages. None of your live languages...