...Faithfully yours always. DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, Monday Evening, Mrs. July 22«rf, 1848. Co wdeu MY DEAR MRS. CLARKE, I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable....never, — wearing lighted candles round their heads.** I am deeply miserable. A real house like this is insupportable, after that canvas farm wherein I was...

...Gas-Light Boy. Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke. Devonshire Terrace: July 22, 1848. My dear Mrs. Clarke, — I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable....children — not engaged at sixpence a-night a-piece, and dismissible for ever, if they tumble down, not taken on for an indefinite time at a vast expense, and...

...Gas-Light Boy. Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke. Devonshire Terrace : July 22, 1848. My dear Mrs. Clarke, — I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable....children — not engaged at sixpence a-night a-piece, and dismissible for ever, if they tumble down, not taken on for an indefinite time at a vast expense, and...

...Clinrles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke. Devonshire Terrace: July 22, 1848. My dear Mrs. Clarke,—I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable. I loathe...vagabond. Why can't I marry Mary ? Why have I seven children—not engaged at sixpence a-night a-piece, and dismissible for ever, if they tumble down,...

...always. [To Mrs. Cowden Clarkel] DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, Monday Evening, July 22nd, 1848. MY DEAR MRS. CLARKE, I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable....tumble down, not taken on for an indefinite time at avast expense, and never, — no never, never, * A character in " Used Up." VOL. III.— 5, — wearing...

...always. TIERACE, Mtnulai Evening, July 22nd, 1848. *fr* MY DEAR MRS. CLARKE. Cowdca Clarke. j }jave no energy whatever, I am very miserable. I loathe...— wearing lighted candles round their heads, f I am deeply miserable. A real house like this is insupportable, after that canvas farm wherein I was...

...Gas-Light Boy. Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke. Devonshire Terrace : July 22, 1848. My dear Mrs. Clarke, — I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable....have I seven children — not engaged at sixpence a night a-piece, and dismissible for ever, if they tumble down, not taken on for an indefinite time...

...affectionate friend. CXXII. MRS. COWDEN CLARKE DEVONSHIRE TERRACE, Monday Evening, July 22, 1848. MY DEAR MRS. CLARKE, — I have no energy whatever, I am very miserable....have I seven children — not engaged at sixpence a night apiece, and dismissable for ever, if they tumble down, not taken on for an indefinite time...

...much in a letter of 1848 referring to his role as Sir Charles Coldstream in a production of Used Up: 'I have no energy whatever - I am very miserable. I loathe domestic hearths. I yearn to be a Vagabond.'76 Dickens' confusion about being and becoming vagrant realised concerns that were at once...