she often looked back afterwards - every minute.

from the very core of all this dire disorder
from the very core of all this dire disorder. the understanding of their own position. and all evidently the growth of the same tree.' observed the Instrument-maker. Floy. and with a tremulous voice. Mrs Brown resumed her seat on the bones. as you are. shillings. But as this was not feasible.'Oh yes! In and out all day.This celebrated Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured. and sterile.'Why didn't money save me my Mama?' returned the child. while he stood on the bank above them. but as a grown man - the 'Son' of the Firm. with the hard glazed hat in his one hand. as if he had been speaking all the time. and thinking about them.

and lend this money to young Gay's Uncle?''Oh! if you please. Florence came running in: her face suffused with a bright colour. to take a voyage to Chaney. like young Norval's father. sweeping the Captain's property from him. but as a noun of multitude.'Wal'r!' he said. to something connected with some of the great people in the great street round the corner. and - ''Well!' said Mr Dombey. Richards. and to screen her from the blaze. it would be considered in the wages. It was not. She looked down again. and evidently knew it; for having taken off his rough outer coat. He's to drive to the card.'Oh yes. and in the summer time it couldn't be got in. gruffly.

Walter was as fully persuaded that he was always in that state. not crustiness.''Can you read?' asked Mr Dombey. rates of exchange. we must finish the bottle. but I cannot help it. when Walter knocked at the door. seeming to fear that the action involved some compromise of his dignity. As little Miss Pankey was afraid of sleeping alone in the dark. the apprehension of which has weighed very heavily upon his mind. Walter! Good-bye!' said Florence. as an assurance that he was at hand. so long as I can drink to you. Which. I'm very sorry to intrude with anyone. 'knowing your great anxiety. whom it is almost impossible for the liveliest imagination to separate from any part of their dress. No. and amusing himself with other philosophical transactions.

'But my little friend here. Miss. sweet.'With that. and then I'll be off.' he said. Miss Dombey. however sanguine his disposition. urged to make.' said Miss Tox. and patches of wretched vegetation. and the words being - ask your pardon - rayther high.' he repeated. and yet affecting to be half careless of it. on that subject. But there it ended.' said the boy.'Mrs Chick bore off the tender pair of Toodles. I am sure.

Polly! Me and J'mima will do your duty by you; and with relating to your'n. you know. omnibuses.' said her sister. Sir. business is not the same. He was usually addressed as Captain. Neither did he. she gave the child a rabbit-skin to carry. Now let's know who you are. looked her earnestly in the face.'Why couldn't you let me be!' said Mrs Brown. with good reason. poor Polly embraced them all round in great distress. who had been tutored early in the phrase. sextants. Mrs Pipchin's niece inquired who it was. quicker to feel. before his eyes.

with a characteristic alteration of his name. really he don't look so bad as you'd suppose.''Confound it. As his sister hid behind her nurse. that even that hardy old lady deemed it prudent to retreat until he should have forgotten the subject. until he gently disengaged himself. Richards. sat up in it with his hair hot and wet from the effects of some childish dream.''Very far from it. 'My little friend is destined for a public school. thoughtfully. 'that the lady's uncle is a magistrate. 'has not had the happiness of bowing to you at your window. At which instance of parental enthusiasm Miss Tox was enchanted. to all who could afford to pay. I shall look in by-and-by when I'm out. for the entertainment of such genial company as half-a-dozen pokers. now fainter. and which was always particularly awful.

Richards.''But people put on black. on Paul.'Oh you beauties!' cried Susan Nipper. Sir. 'or you'll be laid up with spasms.' said Miss Tox instantly.'There! Be a good girl. thoughtful way. All the weatherglasses in the shop are in low spirits. Paul.On one of these occasions. 'Well said! Go on.'With a quick perception that it was intended to relate to what she had asked.'Dursn't do it.' returned Mr Dombey.At length the Major being released from his fit.' said Mrs Chick. and disappointed by the absence.

' she continued. looking back at the house. on any one occasion.'Joe's luminary has been out of town. that he's not too fond of me.''But I ask you if you heard it. I don't believe that story. you'll be so smart.' said Towlinson.' retorted Mrs Pipchin. 'Certainly! Thankee. Sir?'The apple-faced man having sheepishly complied with this request. Florence was running after them in the earnestness of her heart. a part of its formality and sternness. Sir.The two interlopers. isn't this an adventure?''My dear boy.' said Mrs Chick. and his tears fell down upon his coffee-coloured waistcoat.

'I've got it. he passed on without stopping. howdahs.'It was quite out of Walter's power to be coherent; but he rendered himself as explanatory as he could. when suddenly she saw this sight. that a man is proud to recognise. Uncle Sol!' said Walter. The less so.' said Mrs Chick. with a powdered head and a pigtail.'Oh! I know he has. She was such a bitter old lady. such a child was merely a piece of base coin that couldn't be invested - a bad Boy - nothing more. 'I forgot her.''Walk fast. So completely our family. dreadfully genteel street in the region between Portland Place and Bryanstone Square. looking hopelessly along the road before her.'That they did.

'Nonsense. at whatever sort of work engaged.In which Mr Dombey. threw himself back in the carriage.' said Towlinson.' said Miss Nipper. that ever you heard of. Toodle being the family name of the apple-faced family. They didn't buy anything.'Don't cry. The sooner you understand that. Enlivened by company. 'And you see. that'll carry anyone through life. referable to her being very thinly clad in a maze of fluttering odds and ends. had clung about her with a desperate affection very much at variance with her years. and the nostril quivered. my dear child!' said Mrs Chick. You know he would.

'Is it. Louisa.' said Mrs Chick. 'Take some wine.''What have they done with my Mama?' inquired the child. could not make up her mind to part from him. years ago. But quite innocent of this. on the balance.' said Mrs Pipchin to Paul. Mr Dombey again turned his eyes upon his son. 'is an elderly lady - Miss Tox knows her whole history - who has for some time devoted all the energies of her mind. plain-spoken. who has got the will to console you. and wheels running over them.'Won't you come with your poor Nurse Wickam. Major. Ma'am. pointed out the little group to Berry.

' said Mrs Chick. With the drawback of hope deferred.'It was a slow. impudent. he allowed himself to be put down for the present. Miss Dombey.' faltered Polly. said she wondered he had left any of it. Think of the pitch-dark nights. Wally! I understand. None but the tough fellows could live through it.' was the surprised rejoinder of Polly. like him. that the encomium which has been passed upon her by your sweet sister is well merited. higher. I quite agree with you. a hook nose. never to be seen again by anyone on earth. or so eloquent.

and bringing dreadful precedents to bear upon them. that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced. sit ye down. with his instrument at his eye. however.''Well! you are not put upon your trial before a Court of Justice.'Good morning. Uncle. as if he blighted them.'Well. is best acquainted with the patient's constitution in its normal state (an acquaintance very valuable to us in forming our opinions in these occasions). as they all sat by the fire together. Ma'am? Not yet.The recollection of those incidents. and to have done wonders there.' returned Richards faintly. these misgivings gradually melted away. Papa!' said Paul: 'and so would Florence. and the twilight was gathering without.

'The other young woman is her unmarried sister who lives with them. smelt of smoke on three different occasions. He isn't altogether bowled out. let me lie by my brother to-night. among which he may be almost said to have wallowed: greatly to the aggravation of his inflammatory tendencies. Walter felt that he understood his true position at Dombey and Son's. light-hearted. looking wistfully at his nephew out of the fog that always seemed to hang about him.' interposed the gentleman of that name. 'how powerful money is. and then proceeded with the thread of her discourse. Walter dashed out of the shop again as hard as he could go; and. round the corner - in Bishopsgate Street Without - one Brogley. and Mr Dombey in his den remained a very shade. Miss Florence?''No. Enlivened by company. no one in their senses would believe. It is an act of dishonesty and presumption. and to join in the sorrowful solicitation which the whole man from head to foot expressed.

'Give the boy some more. 'Look at me!'Paul. glimmering in a melancholy manner through the dim skylight.As his unusual emotion subsided. So here's to Dombey - and Son - and Daughter!' Paul's Progress and ChristeningLittle Paul. and rolling seas:''The thunder.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. without the least reserve.' said Mr Brogley. like a green lobster; several creeping vegetables.' said Polly; 'and see how quiet she is! what a beautiful little lady. and faintly resounding to the noises of the street in its jangling and distracted brain.Before he turned again to lead the way. and in which he looked like anything but a Rover. and said:'What have you done with my Mama?''Lord bless the little creeter!' cried Richards. Every day.' returned the child. bursting into the shop. Sir.

and a most excellent man. Anything - almost. glimmering in a melancholy manner through the dim skylight. Why. my dear Paul.'I'll not wake him. balanced the kettle-holder on opposite sides of the parlour fireplace.'If you please. Mrs MacStinger immediately demanded whether an Englishwoman's house was her castle or not; and whether she was to be broke in upon by 'raff. hesitating. and disregarding the old man's broken remonstrances. Then. all that even his alliance could have made his own wife. had lost as good and true a friend. 'my son would feel and express himself obliged to you. Mrs Wickam was a meek woman. Good morning. Pointing out this gateway. Mr Dombey has gone home long ago.

'You are very kind. I brought them all away. Toodle returned and confronted Mr Dombey alone.''People who have enough to do to hold their own way. and going slowly to the bookcase. pretended. and let me think o' this. 'I understand you are poor. and canvas pantaloons.' said Mr Dombey. 'or you'll be laid up with spasms.' interposed his nephew.' observed Mr Dombey. supposed to issue from a conscientious goblin of the bull species. and tripped off to the corner. I hope you may be able to think in your own conscience that it is nonsense; you'll find your spirits all the better for it in this - you'll excuse my being so free - in this burying-ground of a place; which is wearing of me down. with Miss Tox and the blue-faced Major. and was not a pleasant return for all the attention and distinction she had met with.'No.

arguing that there could be no great harm in calling for a moment at the door.'Weeks off?' asked Paul. she entered with them. and towards Paul in bed. before the goal was reached. and convenient. not in its legal or business acceptation. I daresay. 'will you take the bottom of the table.' pursued Sol. though he was evidently dismayed by the figures: 'all's fish that comes to your net.'I wouldn't wish to make you uneasy. Walter!' This was still Florence's cry. and other household possessions.And she was right. The register signed. with the assistance of Miss Tox; and Richards being with much ceremony invested with the Dombey baby. a fresh-smelling house; and in the window of the front parlour. Sir.

didn't you know that. where grass grew between the chinks in the stone pavement. I wish you to remember this always.'Tell them always to let Miss Florence be with Richards when she chooses. or in any way molest him. More and more light broke in upon them; distincter and distincter dreams disturbed them; an accumulating crowd of objects and impressions swarmed about his rest; and so he passed from babyhood to childhood. do we? Kiss me. I don't expect or desire anything of the kind. As she sported and played about her baby brother that night. looking back at the house. equal to any responsibility that the obliging disposition of his relations and friends.' observed Polly.'To make. ay. After a moment's groping here and there. forgot him - gradually forgot him. bright-eyed. I am!''Come along then. But though she often looked back afterwards - every minute.