Sketches by Boz Characters Chapter I - Thoughts About People

In which the quiet, often unnoticed lives of London’s solitary or habit-bound citizens are observed with keen sympathy, from the worn office clerk to the misanthropic elder and the youthful apprentices endeavouring at sophistication. Their daily routines and peculiarities reveal a city teeming with individuals content or quaint in their solitary existences, each a study in endurance, temperament, and social mannerism.