Charles Dickens: It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen tog — Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

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