Note 65 — PUNCTUATION
Reading edition
Some writers mark this form of composition quite arbitrarily. For instance Charles Dickens uses colons: ‘As he sat down by the old man’s side, two tears: not tears like those with which recording angels blot their entries out, but drops so precious that they use them for their ink: stole down his meritorious cheeks.’—Martin Chuzzlewit, Oxford ed., p. 581.