...Dickens, "I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." He had bought the magazine at a shop in the Strand, and the person from whom he had bought it was the...

...us, he "walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, be cause my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not...bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there." Other contributions to the " Monthly Magazine" followed, one of them having the signature " Boz," which...