HT: Appreciation

"All the journey, immoveable in the air though never left behind; plain to the dark of her mind, as the electric wires which ruled a colossal strip of music-paper out of the evening sky, were plain to the dark eyes of her body; Mrs. Sparsit saw her staircase, with the figure coming down. Very near the bottom now. Upon the brink of the abyss" (203). This quote drew my attention because of the mysteriousness that Dickens seems to use in this description. He uses a movement throughout by using words such as "mind", "electric wires", "evening sky", "staircase", and "the figure coming down"; words that make the reader feel alive and active. Some of these words also add to a sense of mystery such as "air", "dark", "figure", and "abyss"; they create another element that causes the reader to feel a movement/mood.