( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The finale concluded, the dancers promenaded the room, and Mr. Tupmanand his companion stationed themselves in a corner to observe thecompany.
In that corner of the churchyard,'said the old gentleman, after a silence of a few moments, 'in thatcorner of the churchyard of which I have before spoken, there liesburied a man who was in my employment for three years after this event,and who was truly contrite, penitent, and humbled, if ever man was.
I knew it must be so: that so it always had been, and soit ever would be: and when I cowered in some obscure corner of a crowdedroom, and saw men whisper, and point, and turn their eyes towards me, Iknew they were telling each other of the doomed madman; and I slunk awayagain to mope in solitude.
I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start upfrom my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still andmotionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure withlong black hair, which, streaming down her back, stirs with no earthlywind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.
You cast a look behind you, asyou turn a corner of the road.
The onlyeye-sore in the whole place was another cousin of Maria Lobbs's, and abrother of Kate, whom Maria Lobbs called "Henry," and who seemed tokeep Maria Lobbs all to himself, up in one corner of the table.
They searchedevery nook and corner round, together and separately; they shouted,whistled, laughed, called--and all with the same result.
The puffy-faced young man rose, and drawing a chair close to Mr.Pickwick in an obscure corner of the room, listened attentively to histale of woe.