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More likely there'd been some Bagstock or other who'd double-crossed him in a deal and he'd never found a chance to get square. Anyway, he's after a confidential report, so off I pikes. My troubles began right at the start. I had to hunt the address up on a city map, and when I'd located it on the lower West Side, down in the warehouse district, I'm sure of one thing this Mrs.
The last bottle of the old Madeira, which had had its cruising days, and known its dangers of the deep, lay silently beneath its dust and cobwebs, in the meanwhile, undisturbed. Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey 'Mr Dombey, Sir, said Major Bagstock, 'Joee' B. is not in general a man of sentiment, for Joseph is tough.
If it only made yourself ridiculous, Ma'am, said the Major, rolling his head at the unconscious Miss Tox, while his starting eyes appeared to make a leap towards her, 'you might do that to your heart's content, Ma'am, without any objection, I assure you, on the part of Bagstock. Here the Major laughed frightfully up in the tips of his ears and in the veins of his head.
Alfred Jingle were both copied from the same character. It will seem as insane as saying that the character of Smike and the character of Major Bagstock were both copied from Dickens's father. Yet it is an unquestionable historical fact that Micawber and Dorrit were both copied from Dickens's father, in the only sense that any figures in good literature are ever copied from anything or anybody.
But on this occasion, Major Bagstock, even amidst these many occupations, found time to be social; and his sociality consisted in excessive slyness for the behoof of Mr Carker, and the betrayal of Mr Dombey's state of mind. 'Dombey, said the Major, 'you don't eat; what's the matter? 'Thank you, returned the gentleman, 'I am doing very well; I have no great appetite today.
Unless the world was peopled with J.B.'s tough and blunt old Joes, Ma'am, plain red herrings with hard roes, Sir we couldn't afford it. It wouldn't do. 'You naughty Infidel, said Mrs Skewton, 'be mute. 'Cleopatra commands, returned the Major, kissing his hand, 'and Antony Bagstock obeys.
Will you honour us so far, Ma'am? said the Major, swelling with shortness of breath and slyness, as he produced a note, addressed to the Honourable Mrs Skewton, by favour of Major Bagstock, wherein hers ever faithfully, Paul Dombey, besought her and her amiable and accomplished daughter to consent to the proposed excursion; and in a postscript unto which, the same ever faithfully Paul Dombey entreated to be recalled to the remembrance of Mrs Granger.
This is an occasion, Sir, that calls forth all the honest sympathies remaining in an old, infernal, battered, used-up, invalided, J. B. carcase. And I tell you what, Dombey at such a time a man must blurt out what he feels, or put a muzzle on; and Joseph Bagstock tells you to your face, Dombey, as he tells his club behind your back, that he never will be muzzled when Paul Dombey is in question.
Believe me, the Astors ain't got anything on us now." Mrs. Bagstock don't seem to be listenin'. She's just gazin' around smilin' vague. "Music, wasn't there?" she goes on. "I had really forgotten having ordered an orchestra. And such lovely roses! Let me take one more look at the dear old drawing-room. Yes, it was a success, I'm sure. Now you may ring for my maid. I I think I will retire."
'Cleopatra the peerless, and her Antony Bagstock, will often speak of this, triumphantly, when sharing the elegance and wealth of Edith Dombey's establishment. Dombey's right-hand man, Ma'am, said the Major, stopping abruptly in a chuckle, and becoming serious, 'has arrived. 'This morning? said Cleopatra. 'This morning, Ma'am, returned the Major.
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