Chapter 4 examines the tension that exists between the visual and affective functions of the eye, as it plays out in Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) and Bleak House (1853). Exploring how Dickens’s thinking about vision and tears was informed by the scientific journalism published in his weekly periodicals, it posits that his knowledge of ocular neural anatomy shaped his depiction of his characters’ divergent capacities for seeing and feeling. In Bleak House, Dickens also represents tears as part of a wider fluid network of affect that flows freely in and amongst the characters and spaces of the novel. Contemplating how this fluid feeling simultaneously flows out to meet the reader, the chapter reflects on the importance of emotion to his novels’ reception. It argues that Dickens uses affect to move his reader’s eyes, both across the page and beyond it, and that his work illustrates how there are ways of reading with feeling that are already written into the body.