[I could not stop laughing at this bit... I love Dickens for sentences like this one!]
"His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added appellation of Jerry."
--A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, first published 1859
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I'm a 31-year-old Christian. My hope is to live a quiet life filled with home and hearth, family and friends, loveliness and simplicity. I'm wife to Douglas (married October 2008) and mother to Edmund (born November 2009), Lavinia (born May 2012), and Rosamund (born February 2014).
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This is one of my most favorite books!
ReplyDeleteCaroline, this is my first time reading through it but I am greatly enjoying it so far! :)
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