MihaElla ’s Reviews > The Letters of Charles Dickens-Vol-2 1857-1870: A Journey through 19th-Century England — Emotions, Reflections, and the Art of Everyday Letters > Status Update

What a dream it is, this work and strife, and how little we do in the dream after all! Only last night, in my sleep, I was bent upon getting over a perspective of barriers, with my hands and feet bound. Pretty much what we are all about, waking, I think?

But, Lord! (as I said before) you smile pityingly, not bitterly, at this hubbub, and moralise upon it, in the calm evenings when there is no school at Sherborne.