This is not Dickens - according to Dickens Journals Online the original was printed in Household Words 18. july 1857, and the author is some Geraldine Ensor Jewsbury.
https://www.djo.org.uk/household-wor...i/page-36.html
(I learned many years ago that one has to be careful with all the "unknown" works by Dickens floating around. Various publishers all over the world had a tendency to put his name on any anonymous story from his journals :0)
Regards,
Kim