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I am pretty well known to be rather an uncommon man, I believe; and most people will understand fast enough that it must be a woman rather out of the common, also, who, in the long run, would come up to my mark. 'Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this, Bounderby, urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'before you commit yourself to such a decision.
Strange to relate Mr. Gradgrind was not so collected at this moment as his daughter was. "I have undertaken to let you know that in short, that Mr. Bounderby has long hoped that the time might arrive when he should offer you his hand in marriage. That time has now come, and Mr. Bounderby has made his proposal to me, and has entreated me to make it known to you."
Louisa and Sissy withdrew into an adjoining room; Mr. Sleary, stirring and drinking his brandy and water as he stood, went on: 'Thquire, you don't need to be told that dogth ith wonderful animalth. 'Their instinct, said Mr. Gradgrind, 'is surprising. 'Whatever you call it and I'm bletht if I know what to call it' said Sleary, 'it ith athtonithing.
"Now, girl number twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, "you know what a horse is." She curtsied again, blushed, and sat down, and the third gentleman present stepped forth, briskly smiling and folding his arms. "That's a horse," he said. "Now, let me ask you, boys and girls, would you paper a room with representations of horses?" After a pause, one-half of the children cried in chorus, "Yes, sir!"
Gradgrind and his daughter took Cecilia Jupe off with them to Stone Lodge, and on the way Louisa never spoke one word, good or bad. And Mr. Bounderby went about his daily pursuits. And Mrs. Sparsit got behind her eyebrows and meditated in the gloom of that retreat, all the evening. LET us strike the key-note again, before pursuing the tune.
You are altogether backward, and below the mark. 'I am sorry, sir, she returned; 'but I know it is quite true. Yet I have tried hard, sir. 'Yes, said Mr. Gradgrind, 'yes, I believe you have tried hard; I have observed you, and I can find no fault in that respect. 'Thank you, sir.
Gradgrind, 'I was addressing myself to you. 'Has what has he missed? asked Mr. Gradgrind, glancing at the potent Bounderby for assistance. 'Missed his tip. 'Offered at the Garters four times last night, and never done 'em once, said Master Kidderminster. 'Missed his tip at the banners, too, and was loose in his ponging. 'Didn't do what he ought to do.
Gradgrind did not take after Blue Beard, his room was quite a blue chamber in its abundance of blue books. In that charmed apartment, the most complicated social questions were cast up, got into exact totals, and finally settled if those concerned could only have been brought to know it.
He means turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, and that he wants to be set up with a coach and six. That's what your daughter wants. Since you are of opinion that she ought to have what she wants, I recommend you to provide it for her. Because, Tom Gradgrind, she will never have it from me. 'Bounderby, said Mr. Gradgrind, 'I hoped, after my entreaty, you would have taken a different tone.
'It's a pity you don't have a bespeak, being so particular. You're on the Tight-Jeff, ain't you? 'What does this unmannerly boy mean, asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff? 'There! Get out, get out! said Mr. Childers, thrusting his young friend from the room, rather in the prairie manner.
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