Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens

urance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than

eriences have a more remarkable aspect, so reviewed, than they had when they were in progress. I have come home from the Play now, a

of these Romances

some pains. That these are not usually given to it, — that numbers of people accept a few stock commonplace expressions of the face as the whole list of characteristics, and neither seek nor know the refinements that are truest, — that You, for instance, give a great deal of time and attention to the reading of music, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Hebrew, if you please, and do

by acquaintances, and I have been taken in (of course) by friends; far oftener by friends tha

face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in