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I think Dickens is using instinct as an adjective here:
ADJECTIVE: (n-stngkt)1. Deeply filled or imbued: words instinct with love. 2. Obsolete Impelled from within.
(From the AHD http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/I0170000.html
Sense 1 seems to fit the bill.
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