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Quotation from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”
Bleak House, Chapter XLVII, Jo's Will (Project Gutenberg text)
The narrator's apostrophe at the death of Jo, who has died in Mr. George's shooting gallery repeating the Lord's Prayer after Woodcourt.
Citation: "Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, right reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day." — Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter XLVII, Jo's Will (Project Gutenberg text). (id bleak-house-q6)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
