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'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.
'Ah, said Miss Nipper, with great sharpness, 'Oh, them "Blimbers" 'Don't blame anyone, said Florence. 'It's a mistake. 'I say nothing about blame, Miss, cried Miss Nipper, 'for I know that you object, but I may wish, Miss, that the family was set to work to make new roads, and that Miss Blimber went in front and had the pickaxe.
'No, Ma'am, said Paul. 'Dombey, Dombey, said Miss Blimber, 'I begin to be afraid you are a sad boy. When you don't know the meaning of an expression, why don't you seek for information? 'Mrs Pipchin told me I wasn't to ask questions, returned Paul. 'I must beg you not to mention Mrs Pipchin to me, on any account, Dombey, returned Miss Blimber. 'I couldn't think of allowing it.
Having at last amassed the whole library and climbed into his place he fell to work, encouraged by a remark from Tozer to the effect that he was in for it now; which was the only interruption he received until breakfast time, for which meal he had no appetite, and when it was finished, he followed Miss Blimber upstairs. "Now, Dombey, how have you got on with those books?" asked Miss Blimber.
But he might have answered 'weary, weary! very lonely, very sad! And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming. Paul's Education After the lapse of some minutes, which appeared an immense time to little Paul Dombey on the table, Doctor Blimber came back.
'That circumstance, indeed, Doctor Blimber, pursued Mr Dombey, glancing at his little son, 'and the interview I have already had the pleasure of holding with you, renders any further explanation, and consequently, any further intrusion on your valuable time, so unnecessary, that 'Now, Miss Dombey! said the acid Pipchin. 'Permit me, said the Doctor, 'one moment.
And it showed, Paul thought, how easily one might do injustice to a person; for Miss Blimber meant it although she was a Forcer. A buzz then went round among the young gentlemen, of "Dombey's going! little Dombey's going!" and there was a general move after Paul and Florence down the staircase and into the hall, in which the whole Blimber family were included.
There was some nice soup, also roast meat, boiled meat, vegetables, pie, and cheese. Every young gentleman had a massive silver fork and a napkin, and all the arrangements were stately and handsome. There was a butler too, in a blue coat and brass buttons. Nobody spoke unless spoken to, except Doctor Blimber, Mrs. Blimber, and Miss Blimber.
Each of these gentlemen brought his hat in his hand as if he lived somewhere else; and when they were announced by the butler. Doctor Blimber said, "Aye, aye, aye! God bless my soul!" and seemed extremely glad to see them. Mr.
"Now I see my little friend. How do you do, my little friend?" "V-ery well, I thank you, sir," returned Paul. "Ha!" said Doctor Blimber. "Shall we make a man of him?" "Do you hear, Paul?" added Mr. Dombey, Paul being silent. "I had rather be a child," replied Paul. "Indeed!" said the doctor. "Why?"
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