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I must give you a kiss of congratulation, Louisa; but don't touch my right shoulder, for there's something running down it all day long. And now you see, whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, adjusting her shawls after the affectionate ceremony, 'I shall be worrying myself, morning, noon, and night, to know what I am to call him! 'Mrs. Gradgrind, said her husband, solemnly, 'what do you mean?
Gradgrind usually improved these occasions by remarking, when she was gone, that if Jupe had been properly trained from an early age she would have remonstrated to herself on sound principles the baselessness of these fantastic hopes. This observation must be limited exclusively to his daughter.
Sparsit, 'that Miss Gradgrind was wanting in animation, but I confess she appears to me considerably and strikingly improved in that respect. Ay, and indeed here is Mr. Bounderby! cried Mrs. Sparsit, nodding her head a great many times, as if she had been talking and thinking of no one else. 'How do you find yourself this morning, sir? Pray let us see you cheerful, sir.
Gradgrind, beckoning her nearer to him before he said so, and dropping his voice. 'Only to father and Merrylegs, sir. At least I mean to father, when Merrylegs was always there. 'Never mind Merrylegs, Jupe, said Mr. Gradgrind, with a passing frown. 'I don't ask about him. I understand you to have been in the habit of reading to your father? 'O, yes, sir, thousands of times.
To "reconstruct the map" of a county, by wire-fencing it into squares of 100 acres each, after grubbing up all the hedges and hedge-trees, would doubtless add seven and a quarter per cent. to the agricultural production of the shire, and gratify many a Gradgrind of materialistic economy; but who would know England after such a transformation?
And and I would suggest to you, that that if you would kindly meet me in a timely endeavour to leave her to her better nature for a while and to encourage it to develop itself by tenderness and consideration it it would be the better for the happiness of all of us. Louisa, said Mr. Gradgrind, shading his face with his hand, 'has always been my favourite child.
All these little tokens of his gratitude, Mr. Gradgrind very willingly undertook to render. Though he thought them far too slight, he said, for such a service. 'Very well, Thquire; then, if you'll only give a Horthe-riding, a bethpeak, whenever you can, you'll more than balanthe the account. Now, Thquire, if your daughter will ethcuthe me, I thould like one parting word with you.
Describe your father as a horse-breaker. He doctors sick horses, I dare say?" "Oh, yes, sir." "Very well, then. He is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier and horse-breaker. Give me your definition of a horse." "Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!" said Mr. Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers.
I shall not associate him in our conversation with your intimacy and encouragement; pray do not persist in connecting him with mine. 'I never mentioned his name! said Bounderby. 'Well, well! returned Mr. Gradgrind, with a patient, even a submissive, air. And he sat for a little while pondering. 'Bounderby, I see reason to doubt whether we have ever quite understood Louisa.
Sparsit had no resource but to burst into tears of bitterness and say, 'I have lost her! THE national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation.
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