Poor Mr. Dickson, but what a strong simile for irrelevance in the brightness of daylight.

‘Mr. Dickson leaning against the doorpost with a melancholy pimpled face, looking as irrelevant to the daylight as last night’s guttered candle.’ 

Source: George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 82

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