Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for…

Charles Dickens
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Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. ✨ Charles Dickens (1853). Bleak House, p.282
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