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The author describes a marsh-mist clinging to twigs like coarse spiders’ webs in Great Expectations

Pip is on his way with a purloined pork pie and a bad conscience. “It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket handkerchief,” he remembers in Great Expectations in which Charles Dickens, as always, matches ambience and emotion.

 

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