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When the muffins and sausages had been devoured, the perfunctory inquiries about the health of "your people" made and answered, and all permissible school topics discussed, there used to ensue a horrid silence, while "Dr. Blimber's young friends" sat tightly glued to their chairs.
Pipchin kept a collection of plants in pots, which imparted an earthy flavour of their own to the establishment." Little Paul afterwards went to Dr. Blimber's, which "was a mighty fine house fronting the sea"; this has been identified as being on or near the site now occupied by the Metropole.
But when little Paul Dombey goes to an old-fashioned but kindly school, it is in a very different sense and for a very different reason from that for which Nicholas Nickleby goes to an old-fashioned and cruel school. The sending of little Paul to Dr. Blimber's is a real part of the history of little Paul, such as it is.
Feeling that the answer was a shock to Miss Blimber's sensibility, he looked up at the three faces that were looking down at him, and said: 'I have'n't been well. I have been a weak child. I couldn't learn a Latin Grammar when I was out, every day, with old Glubb. I wish you'd tell old Glubb to come and see me, if you please. 'What a dreadfully low name' said Mrs Blimber.
The ceremonies concluded by the Doctor's saying, 'Gentlemen, we will resume our studies at seven to-morrow; and then, for the first time, Paul saw Cornelia Blimber's eye, and saw that it was upon him. When the Doctor had said these words, 'Gentlemen, we will resume our studies at seven tomorrow, the pupils bowed again, and went to bed.
He was at Doctor Blimber's. 'And so that's my trouble, she concluded, ever so slightly wringing her hands. 'But I don't you think there's hope now? 'Eh? said Conroy. 'Oh yes! This is the first time I've turned my corner without help. With your help, I should say. 'It'll come back, though. 'Then shall we meet it in the same way? Here's my card. Write me your train, and we'll go together.
Thus these quiet spirits pass the evening; and when it has yielded place to night, Mr Toots walks home with Mr Feeder, and parts with him at Doctor Blimber's door. But Mr Feeder only goes up the steps, and when Mr Toots is gone, comes down again, to stroll upon the beach alone, and think about his prospects.
Blimber's establishment for the first time, we would gladly have witnessed the sparring-match, as one may say, on the very threshold, between Mrs. Pipchin the Ogress in bombazeen and the weak-eyed young man-servant who opens the door! Pipchin at once takes it into her head, is inspired by impudence, and snaps at accordingly. Of this we saw nothing, however, in the Reading. We heard nothing of Mrs.
'I must trouble you not to tell me that you didn't mean, if you please, Dombey, said Miss Blimber, who preserved an awful politeness in her admonitions. 'That is a line of argument I couldn't dream of permitting. Paul felt it safest to say nothing at all, so he only looked at Miss Blimber's spectacles. Miss Blimber having shaken her head at him gravely, referred to a paper lying before her.
Thus the flush of the day in its heat and light, would gradually decline; and again the golden water would be dancing on the wall. The people round him changed as unaccountably as on that first night at Doctor Blimber's except Florence; Florence never changed. Old Mrs.
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