Read "Sketches of Young Couples" by Charles Dickens online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
THEY are grandfather and grandmother to a dozen grown people and have great-grandchildren besides; their bodies are bent, their hair is grey, their step tottering and infirm. Is this the lightsome pair whose wedding was so merry, and have the young couple indeed grown old so soon!
It seems but yesterday-and yet what a host of cares and griefs are crowded into the intervening time which, reckoned by them, lengthens out into a century! How many new associations have wreathed themselves about their hearts since then! The old time is gone, and a new time has come for others-not for them. They are but the rusting link that feebly joins the two, and is silently loosening its hold and dropping asunder.