Considerations of space and of the avoidance of technicalities have prevented a really full account of the written gesture of Charles Dickens; scanty as the foregoing account is, the illustrations it contains could not have been supplied by any one collector of Charles Dickens's letters.

For an inherent weakness has no lesson of avoidance in it, being helpless from the first, and by the doom of its own nature growing more and more helpless to the last, not more so in the example than in him who is to profit by it, and who is more likely to have his appetite flattered by good company than his fear aroused by the evil consequence.

This disaster of Sedan was easy of avoidance by any other man, but impossible of avoidance for Louis Bonaparte.

This disaster of Sedan was easy of avoidance by any other man, but impossible of avoidance for Louis Bonaparte.

Without a suggestion of seeming avoidance on her part, or of umbrage on his, the two no longer fell to each other as a matter of course.