Sentence No. 103 · 8 July 2026
I knew I had an artful customer to deal with and that proof would be very difficult; and I laid a trap for her—such a trap as I never laid yet, and such a venture as I never made yet
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Charles Dickens — Bleak House (1853) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The em-dash introduces a paired echo: "such a trap as I never laid yet" and "such a venture as I never made yet." That matching frame comes in twos, joined by "and," so once you see one half, expect its mirror to follow.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A detective lays out the trap he set for a cunning suspect. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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