Dickens and Christmas by Hawksley Lucinda;

Author:Hawksley, Lucinda;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2017-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

‘The Luckiest Thing in All the World’

‘It may have entertained the Cricket too, for anything I know; but, certainly, it now began to chirp again, vehemently.

“Heyday!” said John, in his slow way. “It’s merrier than ever, to-night, I think.”

“And it’s sure to bring us good fortune, John! It always has done so. To have a Cricket on the Hearth, is the luckiest thing in all the world!”

‘John looked at her as if he had very nearly got the thought into his head, that she was his Cricket in chief, and he quite agreed with her … “The first time I heard its cheerful little note, John, was on that night when you brought me home – when you brought me to my new home here; its little mistress. Nearly a year ago … Its chirp was such a welcome to me! It seemed so full of promise and encouragement. It seemed to say, you would be kind and gentle with me ... all the Cricket tribe are potent Spirits, even though the people who hold converse with them do not know it (which is frequently the case); and there are not in the unseen world, voices more gentle and more true, that may be so implicitly relied on, or that are so certain to give none but tenderest counsel, as the Voices in which the Spirits of the Fireside and the Hearth address themselves to human kind.”’

Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)

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