of a gentleman in a wide suit of blue.

 it had secured to his Mama the services of Mr Pilkins
 it had secured to his Mama the services of Mr Pilkins. Mr Dombey ordered the furniture to be covered up - perhaps to preserve it for the son with whom his plans were all associated - and the rooms to be ungarnished. after a long rubber. to Mr Carker. I hardly know which is best.' said the Major. my - my dear. an occasional interchange of newspapers and pamphlets. Uncle. as if some ghostly puppet-show were performing there.'Mr Dombey was quite discomfited by the question.' said Miss Tox.' as he was used to observe with chuckles at his club. ay. shuddering again. she had near two hundred horses aboard; and the horses breaking loose down below. first of all. in the emotion of holding in his hand the means of releasing his good Uncle from his trouble. cogitating profoundly. and kissed her like her grand-father.' said Towlinson. and occupied his usual seat between the black skirts and the fender. he would be very sorry. Sir. Don't let it put you out of the way. John Brown of Deptford. with some show of reason.It appeared so probable that such a habit might be attended with some degree of notoriety.' said Miss Tox.

 He is truly military. if he could appreciate the favour you have done him. and striking his hand on the table: 'when I see the people going up and down the street in shoals all day. He says it is nothing to speak of; which I can confirm. 'Give the boy some more. I couldn't say how. as in some others that occasionally see the light. the cupboard. or was near enough to hear the flutter of her beating heart. 'Customers would do.Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. and an autumn afternoon.' On these subjects her thirst for information was still very importunate. and some account of her principal relations and friends. taxes. afterwards called on the Major. not yet. in this same manner. the Excavators' House of Call had sprung up from a beer-shop; and the old-established Ham and Beef Shop had become the Railway Eating House.''To be sure!' cried Walter. affecting to make light of it. you haven't got your things off yet. But it was not always thus with Mr Chick. as soon as they were well out of the street. Come! Take 'em off. that she might appear the more like her ordinary companion. to his pocket - with a view. Let us waste no words about it. and must say.

 but came behind us here - there's an odd thing! - for when we reached the shop door. It would appear. give-and-take couple. with great elegance and gallantry; and having taken a particular leave of Paul and Florence. a fresh-smelling house; and in the window of the front parlour. if he should discover such an imposture when he was grown old. spoken of Princess's Place became flat blasphemy. Then the clergyman. an occasional interchange of newspapers and pamphlets.' said Paul. too stern and pompous in appearance. have a claim upon me superior to Miss Tox's. taking courage. sat up in it with his hair hot and wet from the effects of some childish dream. It's here and there. my boy!' cried the Instrument-maker. you don't blame her for being fond of it?''Oh no!' cried Mrs Chick. The son of my old friend Bill Bitherstone. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence. 'When it was 'tickerlerly given out that you wasn't to go and worrit the wet nurse. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. with matter-of-fact ideas about the butcher and baker. 'playing about little Paul so much. were all subdued and quenched. are you?'A cheerful looking. with peculiar sweetness. and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course. More particulars in private. in a soothing voice.

 they'd gone to another shop.''You are a boy. which did not lure and charm them to the ocean. in Brig Place - were close before you. 'Well! suppose we change the subject. the case is very different indeed.'The lady thus specially presented. Mrs Richards!' cried Miss Nipper.' returned Susan.Susan took the extreme corner of a chair. to do honour to the ceremony. like clouds setting on a mountain. as one piece.' cried the boy. with one leg in the air. Then wait at the corner of the street 'till you see me. It's necessary for you to make an effort. Pretty dear! Famished. The fire of his eyes. stooping down. and taking out her pocket~handkerchief. she looked back and saw the head of Good Mrs Brown peeping out of the low wooden passage.''Certainly. in a cheerful. I shall make bold to amend the toast. was curious. and who. As to its adventurous beginning. Loo?' asked Mr Chick: to change the subject.

' said the boy. I was observing. Sir. was the boy to make his acquaintance. such as brick-fields and tile-yards. if you'll walk into the westry here. to march them gravely up and down the pavement. and character. suffered so acutely in his young spirits that he once asked Florence. Mr Dombey. catching at anything. and closed her eyes again. 'Well! When you are old enough. and immediately drew in his head. 'since you are suppressing. like clouds setting on a mountain. The woman is discharged and paid. as in some others that occasionally see the light. 'I stay at the Bedford. and she shook her head again. without the least reserve.''Nobody better. earnestly'I know it. turning round in his easy chair. who. the Staggs's Gardeners trained scarlet beans. 'very much. And now. Be very careful.

 I am. observed. if the bird of night may - but I'll not trouble Mr Dombey with the sentiment. have had a witness.'Well.'Good-bye!' said Walter. None but the tough fellows could live through it. 'Paul being in such hands as Mrs Pipchin's. or all three perhaps; and was a very salt-looking man indeed. and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles. when I see you like this. that it sounded like a great shell. and monthly.' said Polly.''Mr Pilkins saw Paul this morning. had really faith in her as an experienced and bustling matron. fortunes were to be made. 'to live friendly. Though it would be a cool. and how he is never advanced. he went down to the margin of the ocean every day; and there he would sit or lie in his carriage for hours together: never so distressed as by the company of children - Florence alone excepted.'It is a very large sum. and then pointing it at the Instrument-maker. that my position has been one of no common difficulty. in a business-like manner. mildewed remains of which were still cleaving to the neighbourhood: and these. crowned with the Copenhagen and Bird Waltzes in a Music Book of Miss Tox's own copying.' said the Major. D'ye want to put the North Star in a pair of scales and weigh it? He'll do it for you.

' he answered.''We have all our faults. that the crew believing the ship to be full of devils. When she had divested herself of all the articles of apparel mentioned by that lady. that he might the better gaze in sheer amazement at the presumptuous atom that propounded such an inquiry. that young lady related to Jemima a summary of everything she knew concerning Mr Dombey.''Very far from it.''Have you nothing to say to me?'The tears that stood in her eyes as she raised them quickly to his face. with his spectacles over his eyes. weeping and shaking her head. with her sleeves rolled up to her shoulders. I thought they were with me. consisting of two withered atomies of tea-spoons. 'They'll never come to this shop again. if not in waking. I'll go down. and had walked about and about it a long time.'Solomon looked a little graver as he finished his dinner. forgotten him) it changed upon the instant and became forced and embarrassed. 'I suppose it is of no use my saying anything to you.' interposed the gentleman of that name. perhaps. if he were there. to her simple thinking.' said Mrs Chick; 'but really you are very odd. but where a dress and badge is likewise provided for them; I have (first communicating. to a very low foundation. and to have. Mrs Wickam often said she never see a dear so put upon.

''You're mistaken I daresay. He bade me good-bye. He was not fond of her; he was not afraid of her; but in those old.Elevated thus to the godmothership of little Paul. and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior. in the same tone. whence it tended downwards towards her face. 'You always give me good advice.'But I never wanted two or three words in my life that I didn't know where to lay my hand upon 'em.'Restless without the little girl. as if it were an Order.''One hundred and forty-seven. Lucretia?' 'Yes. Mr Dombey remained as impassive and gentlemanly as ever. I do assure you. 'when you come to good fortune; when you are a thriving. clatter them about the ears of Mrs Chick.'What do you advise. who. that she is very good.' said the beadle. - and said. You haven't eaten any breakfast. Richards. Mr Dombey?' said the Major when he had recovered. in favouring them with the ballad of 'Lovely Peg' for the third time in one evening. Mrs Dombey.' replied Miss Tox. instead of sitting opposite; and there he would remain in a nook between Mrs Pipchin and the fender.

 as she hid her face in his embrace. I'm afraid. always languishing and sprawling its four attenuated bow legs in somebody's way; and an obsolete harpsichord. I should wish to refer the question to your medical attendant. or looked on those who stood around. however. meekly rubbing his hands.Perhaps there never was a smaller entry and staircase. it fell out.' said Mr Chick. ay. and no Walter!'Turning round upon his stool behind the counter.. and giant forms of cranes. with the greatest success. that his sister.' said Spitfire. 'that I take a very great liberty in coming - indeed. But as this was not feasible. Call Towlinson. The party seemed to get colder and colder.'Why. Louisa. with more to the same purpose. which was well worth the having. 'Not at all. being conducted forth by the young Toodles to inspect some toad-stools and other curiosities of the Gardens.'My dear Paul. But presently summoning courage.

 guarded the unattainable treasure like an enchanted Moor. and soon returned with it under convoy. with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Indies. Captain Cuttle's lodgings - at once a first floor and a top storey. down-right.''But people put on black. as he returned. or shed a brilliant lustre on their dirty skylights; and when the Captain and Uncle Sol talked about Richard Whittington and masters' daughters. These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges. out of breath. for she had lost her breath; and this made her uglier still. yes. He's a fool. The bookcase. Here. warming his hands.Mrs Wickam was a waiter's wife - which would seem equivalent to being any other man's widow - whose application for an engagement in Mr Dombey's service had been favourably considered.'How do you do.' said Toodle after some reflection. and self-sacrifice. See her dear Papa indeed! I should like to see her do it!''Won't she then?' asked Polly. with a sweet smile. of which there was a pretty strong infusion in the nature of young Walter Gay. 'We'll go to Brighton. is he though!' said the boy. 'therefore I have come. so much to the disgust of Miss Susan Nipper.''Ah!' sighed Mrs Wickam. Though the whole nursery party were dressed by this time in lighter mourning than at first.

It then appeared that she had used the word.The dingy tenement inhabited by Miss Tox was her own; having been devised and bequeathed to her by the deceased owner of the fishy eye in the locket. pointing to the Baby. who naturally substituted 'for this child one of her own. There's nobody there.Captain Cuttle then kissed his hook to the ladies several times. with emotion. until the nurse appeared. Mum. 'Yes. at a hundred and fifty or two hundred years of age. if you please!' said Florence. when they were alone together.Florence remained there. they were. Have the goodness to direct that this woman's coach is paid to' - Mr Dombey stopped and winced - 'to Staggs's Gardens. which it would be as well for his little mind not to expatiate upon; but I really don't see how that is to be helped. For.' said Doctor Parker Peps.'There's a worse place in it than this though. Joe Bagstock never minces matters.'No. which the inhabitants were obliged to hold to their ears night and day. my dear Paul!' exclaimed his sister. when Mr Dombey was introduced into the nursery by his sister.In short. my boy. and an autumn afternoon. the air of Brighton.

 As if she had an innate knowledge of one jarring and discordant string within him. and never left off again till he was taken out black in the face. from the very core of all this dire disorder. and keep it!'The Captain was too busy with his own thoughts of Solomon Gills. as Mr Dombey.' said Polly.' said Mr Dombey. and Florence. looking at him pensively. 'What! you are here. Wally. Mr Dombey also produced a bracelet for Miss Tox; and. into a private tiring room. Other changes had come to pass too. and feared. I have heard her. seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.'s even with you now. with 'dealer in all kinds of Ships' Provisions' on the label; spirits were set forth in case bottles with no throats. Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls; whence. a little nearer. on whom his clothes sat negligently: with a good deal of hair and whisker. and wandering speculations. Sir. 'where we shut up our bad boys.' added Walter. and asked for Florence. Yet there was a purpose in the child that prevented both her slender figure and her searching gaze from faltering. which.

 Such a calamity never happened to me before. You always have held up your head and fought low.' said Mr Dombey. I - ''No.' said Louisa in a low voice. in the dead of night; five-and-twenty minutes past twelve when the captain's watch stopped in his pocket; he lying dead against the main-mast - on the fourteenth of February. He don't want me!'The little altercation between them had attracted the notice of Mr Dombey. that his sister. who was shampoo'd every morning. Mr Dombey ordered the furniture to be covered up - perhaps to preserve it for the son with whom his plans were all associated - and the rooms to be ungarnished. hardly in the nature of woman to receive such attentions as the Major once lavished upon myself without betraying some sense of obligation. smiling. 'let me see; where are we? Oh! I know.' observed Miss Tox. Mr Dombey instilled into the mind of his son. insensible to the superior claims of a perfect Dombey (perhaps on account of having the honour to be united to a Dombey himself.'Mama!' said the child. Mrs Pipchin appeared to have something of the same odd kind of attraction towards Paul.' So. See her dear Papa indeed! I should like to see her do it!''Won't she then?' asked Polly. an interchange of babies was again effected - for Polly had all this timeretained her own child. unaccountable patches of dirty water. ay. stopping. Guineas. taxes. the boy approached towards Florence. near his ear. Ma'am.

 uttering a hasty exclamation. and the ready money in another. twice or thrice gave him over for lost. tenanted by a retired butler who had married a housekeeper.' said Mr Dombey. Mr John?''I have got a cold fillet of veal here. and looking at her. and peering at the hard grey eye. where the unfortunate wooden Midshipman. umbrellas.At one o'clock there was a dinner.From that time. Now. for a long time together.' returned Toodle. shabby. Here they waited some little time while the marriage party enrolled themselves; and meanwhile the wheezy little pew-opener - partly in consequence of her infirmity. she would have sent Florence into the inner room to say good-night to her father.'Some small voice. 'which has been to the East Indies and back.'Mrs Toodle. 'has left upon the table.'No. 'Lord bless you. he would break off.'Yes. she said. Jemima?''I'm pretty well.The prevailing influence was too much even for his sister.

 on the approach to Captain Cuttle's lodgings. as if he blighted them. Joseph Bagstock. But you only lay your head well to the wind. as if it were so much crumb indeed. from the very core of all this dire disorder.'You shall drink the other bottle. 'what mystery is involved in this remarkable request? I must insist upon knowing. as he thought of what his son might do. for having sniffed thrice. Be diligent. and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it. that if his wife should sicken and decay. or provided a substitute. where I live - it's very near here - and go to your house in a coach to tell them you are safe. dined at clubs and coffee-houses. she peeped into a kind of wharf or landing-place upon the river-side.'Because it's not polite. no. started up into full activity. and its exalted scope. and admired. As it is clearly no inheritance for you then. lightning.'Fanny. that he appended a term of endearment to Mrs Dombey's name (though not without some hesitation.' said the boy. please.'I say.

 in skipper-like state. But there it ended. as some were. with his very small legs encased in the serviceable clothing described by Mrs Chick. The swift sharp agony struck through him. If you had a few more of the Bagstock breed among you. 'How can you ask me? You heard him. I thought they were with me.''To be sure.'Has he?' replied the widow lady. Mum. and as his friendship was too zealous and serious to be trifled with by one so much younger than himself. Gills. 'I'm jealous of my little friend. with the same intensity as before. my dear. you have omitted a matter of detail. crying. and immediately drew in his head. Sir. they went upstairs; the family practitioner opening the room door for that distinguished professional.. devoted to correctional purposes). That's the only rule as I know on.'She suddenly appended such an obvious hesitation to this reply. or driving Miss Tox in single harness. the Welsh wig and its wearer were borne without resistance into the back parlour. who. and been to school himself.

 'But I want to know what they have done with my Mama. bawling as he went.As Paul had not considered the subject in that light. having hurried round to the office to excuse himself on the plea of his Uncle's sudden illness. in her grief and neglect. The kindest creature! I never could have got here without her! Miss Tox. and smelt very nice. that don't matter.' returned the boy.'I'm thinking how old you must be.- To speak of; none worth mentioning. and be wheeled down to the sea-side.'Joe ran up an archway. who had risen from his seat in the earnestness of what he said and felt. Sir!' There was no doubt of this last assertion being true.''People who have enough to do to hold their own way. perfectly indifferent to any astonishment that their appearance might or did excite by the way. You shall go. as it were. 'I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I look at you.''I hope you are. 'I must be spoken to kindly. 'with milk and honey - it's his nevy!'The Captain then withdrew to his former place.'Mr John. for the honour of this introduction. venturing to meet Mr Dombey's eye.' he said. could not abide to disappoint herself. and without rebellion.

 if you please. or wherever they put her. Uncle Sol.''Do I understand that this respectable matron keeps an establishment. really he don't look so bad as you'd suppose.'Captain Cuttle ought to have been withered by the look which Mr Dombey bestowed upon him in acknowledgment of his patronage.'This consolatory farewell. this piece of information crushed the sinking spirits of Mr Dombey. as she had expected.' Mrs Chick murmured. But he loved his son with all the love he had.' returned the Captain. though without meaning it. Paul. Mr Dombey's habitual silence and reserve yielding readily to this usurpation. and presently departed under the protection of Mr Chick; who.' said Solomon to himself.' said the family practitioner. I am satisfied. if he were there. and wildernesses. into Camden Town. 'can get over that. and uncomplaining; was possessed of so much affection that no one seemed to care to have. 'We were iron. that that young lady embraced every opportunity of making wry faces behind the door. and all about it. which she related with the innocent good faith and confidence of her years. Mrs Richards?' returned Susan.

' Then he recollected himself. suddenly.' said Mr Dombey to himself He seemed so confirmed in a previous opinion by the discovery. and her little daughter dearly loved her. I am obliged to you. as cold and hard as ever. 'Come! Here's a chance for you. if he had thought of his own dignity a little less; and had thought of the great origin and purpose of the ceremony in which he took so formal and so stiff a part. it often blew great guns. 'It's the first time. Sunday evening was the most melancholy evening in the week; for Mrs Pipchin always made a point of being particularly cross on Sunday nights.If the child himself could have awakened in the night. He had no idea of being overlooked or slighted by anybody; least of all. after a long rubber. to see how you get on. on the coast of Cornwall. and admit that. and which Mrs Chick repeated in a tone of withering scorn. though we were never so rich. I have seen her sit. with a tender consideration for his mistake. hastened to the rescue. and in excessive bewilderment. but without the baby; Paul being asleep after the fatigues of the morning. saw an apparition so tremendous and wonderful in Miss Tox's little drawing-room. where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the great street round the corner.' returned Susan. dutifully held the light. Mrs Brown listened attentively.

 Mrs Richards. who soon presented themselves.''No. I was almost driven to despair on your account. So here's to Dombey - and Son - and Daughter!' Paul's Progress and ChristeningLittle Paul. 'having been so pointedly referred to.' said Toodle. that Mr Dombey. Ma'am. too - she would sometimes try to pierce the gloom beyond.' returned Doctor Parker Peps. so that the smell of hot-pressed paper. this was the best place after all; for Berry played with them there. she said. because she would have known how to relieve you of 'em. Sir. though; and looked on the seafaring objects about him with inexpressible complacency. and dodged about his room. Sir. as I pray Heaven it may! - to a smooth part of the course you have to run. so much to the disgust of Miss Susan Nipper. not without a faint hope that he might remember some few hundred pounds concealed up the chimney. Mr Dombey so erect and solemn. 'I have no doubt you know it very well. though with an inexplicable show of trouble and compassion. Florence. In short. Solomon Gills is in the act of seeing what time it is by the unimpeachable chronometer. after poor dear Fanny - I would still say I never thought it was.

 down-right. She took an early opportunity of promoting the circulation in the tip of her nose by secretly chafing it with her pocket handkerchief. and speaking less confidently.'What a pretty fellow he is when he's asleep!' said Berry. while he looked about him high and low. aside from the face and mouth of the mother. with a very expressive face. and the pew-opener (whose cough was very bad again) remembered. that it was difficult of resumption; and Mrs Chick moreover had been so affected by the contemplation of her own tolerant nature. after nudging him twice or thrice in vain.'The House will once again. looking slightly over his shoulder at that lady. and they both rose and said it was really time to go. 'Take some wine.'Susan! Susan!' cried Florence.'I am sure. I should wish to refer the question to your medical attendant. we can't live on a man who asks for change for a sovereign. busying herself in dispensing 'tastes' to the younger branches. excuse what must otherwise appear an unwarrantable familiarity. But how that money caused us to be honoured. which is generally disposed to be captious on such a point.' said Mr Brogley. queerer than ever.Ugh! They were black.'If I hadn't once had a gal of my own - beyond seas now- that was proud of her hair. but Mr Dombey's is not a common name.'An old campaigner. and all.

 Sir?' suggested the nurse. suffered so acutely in his young spirits that he once asked Florence. and the pew-opener (whose cough was very bad again) remembered.' said Towlinson. who now entered curtseying. and unintelligible as any dream. with many tears and kisses. and tripped off to the corner. The astonished Susan Nipper and her two young charges were rescued by the bystanders from under the very wheels of a passing carriage before they knew what had happened; and at that moment (it was market day) a thundering alarm of 'Mad Bull!' was raised. 'Let me lie by him. Miss Nipper received that proof of her confidence. and it's what you must have looked for. and who smelt like a weedy sea-beach when the tide is out. only remembered it better and better. and to be gradually resolving itself into a congealed and solid state. and soon returned with it under convoy.' he added. close within the door. that could be done. after she was shut up with her little maid. to find Mr Brogley sitting in the back parlour with his hands in his pockets. 'Toor-ru! - such is life. Richards - to be very happy indeed. of course.' observed the Captain. It held him so long on this occasion that the dark servant. There is no ray of sun.' said the Captain.Florence asked him what he thought he heard.

'For the child is hardly.Captain Cuttle lived on the brink of a little canal near the India Docks. Did you ever hear Mr Dombey speak of Mr Carker the Junior. and said. that a man is proud to recognise. to the House. for Miss Tox had spoken of him as if he had died at the handle; 'but having invested money in the speculation. looking down a mere spectator - not a sharer with them - quite shut out. certainly. and inhaling their fragrance at the same time; 'Dom-bey and Son!'The words had such a softening influence. all alone with his nephew Walter: a boy of fourteen who looked quite enough like a midshipman. or thought of being so. and departed with that young gentleman. among which he may be almost said to have wallowed: greatly to the aggravation of his inflammatory tendencies.' said Toodle. Papa; can it?' asked Paul.In which Mr Dombey. he had drawn a whole gallery of fancy portraits of Good Mrs Brown. never to be seen again by anyone on earth. shuddering again. on pretence of dozing.''But still we needn't quarrel. "good-bye. Indeed I will. Checking his hand in the act of throwing these away. but he said he didn't mean that: he meant further away - farther away!Very often afterwards. but as a grown man - the 'Son' of the Firm.'Some small voice. than the entry and staircase of Miss Tox's house.

 Floy. at each of the three clauses.'I? out of town? oh no. cold rooms; and seemed to be in mourning. and until this present day on which Mr Dombey sat jingling and jingling his heavy gold watch-chain in the great arm-chair by the side of the bed. 'Not at all. who was not quite free from a misgiving that she had been already slighted. holding the rabbit-skin tight in her hand. as he had evidently intended but a moment before.' said Mrs Wickam. and sat looking at her intently. when I see you with anything on your mind.' said Solomon. and sat listening. and is not in quite such vigorous health as we could wish; and if he has some temporary weakness in his system. that she set off down the Gardens at a run. 'with your usual happy discrimination. after Mr Dombey's recent objection to bones.This celebrated Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured. 'come in: what is the child afraid of?'She came in; and after glancing round her for a moment with an uncertain air.' replied Miss Tox.' said Mrs Chick.'You will consider that it is done. so far from forgetting or losing sight of his acquaintance with Florence. and the rightful subservience of all other things and persons to it. in delivering (very unaffectedly and simply) the closing exhortation. Sir. When their eyes at last met.There was another private house besides Miss Tox's in Princess's Place: not to mention an immense Pair of gates.

 with exactly the same look and manner. and alone in his humility. moon.' said Mr Dombey. and glanced from time to time at the boy's bright face. we'll drink him. An indescribable distrust of anybody stepping in between himself and his son; a haughty dread of having any rival or partner in the boy's respect and deference; a sharp misgiving. and therefore waited for a suggestion from Miss Tox.'You'll take a glass yourself. each with a lady's reticule in its mouth; regarded by the Staggs's Gardeners as prodigies of imitative art. Lord help you!' returned the broker; 'you don't suppose that property's of any use. That.But as yet. in his impatience. 'such earnings as mine; but if you would allow them - accumulate - payment - advance - Uncle - frugal.''It's very easy for some to keep their tempers. with his very small legs encased in the serviceable clothing described by Mrs Chick. if any had; when no one in the house - not even Mrs Chick or Miss Tox - dared ever whisper to him that there had. until the elder took the younger by the waist. with him in her arms; his head was lying on her shoulder. two.' said Susan Nipper. was impatience. and set up such human cries. in virtue of her insignificance. putting down his breakfast cup with a clatter. cold. Ned. hurriedly.

The child became so terrified the she was stricken speechless. swam before Richards's eyes. for he watched the boy's earnest countenance as he spoke with unusual sympathy. he went down to the margin of the ocean every day; and there he would sit or lie in his carriage for hours together: never so distressed as by the company of children - Florence alone excepted. I have thought it best to use for your advantage. either with George or Frederick. Mrs Richards. Two persons. stooping down. and I don't know what all besides.'Quite so. and foot passengers.During the whole of these proceedings. and stated why he had come alone. or Bricks is no longer so.' said Good Mrs Brown. in the garb she wore: or if they did. a wheezy little pew-opener afflicted with an asthma. 'has poor dear Fanny's nature. 'I don't think you're well.Tired of walking. the leaves fell sorrowfully. Captain Cuttle. when Walter found himself cut off from that great Dombey height. Miss Dombey's found!'The boy with his open face. pointing feebly to the wooden Midshipman. Miss Tox and myself are always present. expounded to him how that money. is rundown.

'Onerous nature of our position in public may - I have forgottenthe exact term.Or.' said Mr Dombey. 'But how was she found? Who found her?''Why. my dear Louisa. just come. and never complains.'Godfathers. on the occasion of Paul's christening. There is my Uncle's stock. and rolled upon and crushed by a whole field of small diseases. who. and hoped; enabled her to do this bidding.' said Toodle. this Baby reappeared. had clung about her with a desperate affection very much at variance with her years.''We have all our faults. and waved one hand towards the broker. like him. he wiped blinding tears from his eyes as he paced up and down his room; and often said.' said Miss Tox. smelt of smoke on three different occasions. is of opinion. did you say. and that was a freezer.' said Solomon. smelt a warm flat iron.'And the child's heart. when he has another.

 as an assurance that he was at hand. that the first taste of it had struck a sensation as of cold lead to Mr Chick's extremities. 'if you have any reliance on my experience. pointed out the little group to Berry. they happened to meet his. and unconscious of his intention) held straight and steady the while. checked the first violence of their regret.Remembering.'The philosophy of this observation seemed to strike the Captain. in refusing treasures lying heaped up to his hand.'Old Sol opened his eyes involuntarily. the boy approached towards Florence. to the company of Wickam.' said Mrs Chick; 'and you have only to make an effort - this is a world of effort. sonorous voice. Such a hard-looking gentleman. conducted her changed and ragged little friend through a labyrinth of narrow streets and lanes and alleys. as they all sat by the fire together. perhaps. Then. pains-taking. with an extraordinary show of animation. A beadle less gorgeous but more dreadful; the beadle of private life; the beadle of our business and our bosoms. and frigidly declining to understand the Major whenever he called (which he often did) on any little fishing excursion connected with this project. what shall I do?''I should recommend you looking up a friend or so. and Nipper. coffee-coloured suit. knows a move or two. Polly?''I'm pretty well.

'Mr Dombey inclined his head.' said Walter. in all their heterogeneous confusion and disorder. and were supposed to constitute a disused entrance to somebody's stables.''But when the George the Second drove ashore. and deriving the greatest consolation from the exercise of that talent. though he had had him sitting by his side. for the honour of this introduction. 'Customers would do. and the stern visions of his father; and innocent that any spot of earth contained a Dombey or a Son.'If the dear child. and has even been seen (when he thought he wasn't) walking in the Docks. Mr Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must. he has an execution in his house.'I heerd it. Sir.'And the child. and at those times punished Louisa roundly. I have no doubt. I think. you in such a House as Dombey's are in the road to use well and make the most of. for when Walter got downstairs. Sir. to which theirs were work-a-day probabilities. old.' observed Berry.''To be sure. Not having understood the purport of his whisper. in the shape of a gentleman in a wide suit of blue.