"Mr Harthouse as thoroughly well bred man, accustomed to the best society, was not to be surprised- he could as soon have been affected- but he raised his eyelids a little more, as if they were lifted by a feeble touch of wonder. Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College." (173)
I enjoy how Dickens can take somehing as subtle as an eyelid raise and add so much depth and meaning to it.
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