Charles Dickens Quote

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.


Oliver Twist. David Copperfield. Our mutual friend. Great expectations. Little Dorrit. Martin Chuzzlewit (ed. 1879)


A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to...

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to...

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to...

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to...