Hard Times

By: Dickens, Charles

The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's squareforefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on theschoolmaster's sleeve. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in twodark caves, overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, whichwas inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, whichbristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shiningsurface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcelywarehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate carriage, squarecoat, square legs, square shoulders, -nay, his very neckcloth, trained to take him by thethroat with an unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was, -all helped theempha

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086B1H2HJ
• ISBN13: 9798627489452
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"