ABSTRACT
… There are in this volume numerous little quainmesses, obliquities, and oddities of expression, peculiar locutions, all Mr Dickens’s own, such as we have been used to in his previous works, modes of thinking and writing that have been habitual to him, that he cannot do without; some very amusing, some overstrained, and not to be swallowed without an effort: they are numerous enough to any one who will look after them; as for instance:—
