• ... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

    Charles Dickens: ... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
    Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.86, Pan Macmillan