The climax of it was the composition of his Sunday sermon, the labor of which secured him a sound sleep that night.

The climax of "Bleak House" is the pursuit of Lady Dedlock, and the finding of the fugitive, cold and dead, with one arm around a rail of the dark little graveyard where they buried the law-copyist, "Nemo," and where poor Jo, the crossing-sweeper, came at night and swept the stones as his last tribute to the friend who "was very good" to him.

The climax of flirtation and escapade is a midnight expedition to the Colosseum, where she contracts Roman fever and dies.

And this climax of the novel is at the same time the downfall of all doctrine.

The climax of the afternoon, the coup-de-théâtre which all awaited, was the appearance of Mlle.

" It is curious also to remark, in the various lists of griefs which make life a burden and a sorrow, how often the climax of these woes is the lack of sleep, or the troubled dreams bearing their train of "gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire," which come with broken rest.