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The Doctor only undertook the charge of ten young gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time.
Nor did he ever again face the doughty Mrs Pipchin, under Doctor Blimber's roof. They were within two or three weeks of the holidays, when, one day, Cornelia Blimber called Paul into her room, and said, 'Dombey, I am going to send home your analysis. 'Thank you, Ma'am, returned Paul. 'You know what I mean, do you, Dombey? inquired Miss Blimber, looking hard at him, through the spectacles.
When the others only bowed to Doctor Blimber and family on retiring for the night, Paul would stretch out his morsel of a hand, and boldly shake the Doctor's; also Mrs Blimber's; also Cornelia's. If anybody was to be begged off from impending punishment, Paul was always the delegate. The weak-eyed young man himself had once consulted him, in reference to a little breakage of glass and china.
One of the number who happened to be drinking, and who caught the Doctor's eye glaring at him through the side of his tumbler, left off so hastily that he was convulsed for some moments, and in the sequel ruined Doctor Blimber's point.
Some weeks before this, Paul had had a fainting turn, and had not recovered his strength, in consequence of which, he was enjoying complete rest from lessons, and it was clear to every one, that, once at home, he would never come back to Dr. Blimber's or to any school again, and to no one was the sad truth more evident than to Florence.
'And well you may be, Miss, returned her maid, 'and make your mind quite easy that the willing dear is worked and worked away. If those is Latin legs, exclaimed Miss Nipper, with strong feeling in allusion to Paul's; 'give me English ones. 'I am afraid he feels lonely and lost at Doctor Blimber's, Susan, pursued Florence, turning away her face.
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