Questions tagged [charles-dickens]

I find the following sentence very puzzling. Could someone "translate" it into plain English? The whole context is here: Here Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep to assort with the groping and floundering…

The last sentence from the following paragraph from Dickens is ambiguious for me; "He was only twenty-five years old, he said, and had grown recently, for it had been found necessary to make an addition to the legs of his inexpressibles. At fifteen…