relection

Updated: May 21, 2025

Bumble might have meant that he had concentrated a whole existence of happiness into the short space of eight weeks; but the sigh there was a vast deal of meaning in the sigh. 'I sold myself, said Mr. Bumble, pursuing the same train of relection, 'for six teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a milk-pot; with a small quantity of second-hand furniture, and twenty pound in money.

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist