blockitt

Updated: July 20, 2025

'Blockitt, Sir? suggested the nurse, a simpering piece of faded gentility, who did not presume to state her name as a fact, but merely offered it as a mild suggestion. 'Of this young gentleman, Mrs Blockitt. 'No, Sir, indeed. I remember when Miss Florence was born 'Ay, ay, ay, said Mr Dombey, bending over the basket bedstead, and slightly bending his brows at the same time.

Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son