Charles Dickens quote about crying from Our Mutual Friend - Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
 Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865). copy citation

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Author Charles Dickens
Source Our Mutual Friend
Topic crying joy
Date 1865
Language English
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“'Why, if there were no remembrance in me of the time you speak of,' he softly asked her with his lips to hers, 'could I love you quite as well as I do; could I have in the Calendar of my life the brightest of its days; could I whenever I look at your dear face, or hear your dear voice, see and hear my noble champion? It can never have been that which made you serious, darling?'
'No John, it wasn't that, and still less was it Mrs Boffin, though I love her. Wait a moment, and I'll go on with the lecture. Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.'
She did so on his neck, and, still clinging there, laughed a little when she said, 'I think I am ready now for Thirdly, John.'
'I am ready for Thirdly,' said John, 'whatever it is.'
'I believe, John,' pursued Bella, 'that you believe that I believe—'” source

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