child's-toy

Updated: May 6, 2025

Fittingly enough, in the Reading as in the book, when the "Fairy Tale of Home" was related to its close, when Dot and all the rest were spoken of as vanished, a broken child's-toy, we were told, yet lay upon the ground, and still upon the hearth was heard the song of the Cricket. A variety of attractive Readings might readily have been culled from Nicholas Nickleby's Life and Adventures.

Charles Kent - Charles Dickens as a Reader