We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, an… - Charles Dickens

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

"Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.