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'Then go straight up there, will you? said Bitzer. 'You're expected, and have only to tell the servant it's you. Stephen, whose way had been in the contrary direction, turned about, and betook himself as in duty bound, to the red brick castle of the giant Bounderby. 'WELL, Stephen, said Bounderby, in his windy manner, 'what's this I hear? What have these pests of the earth been doing to you?

I am pretty well known to be rather an uncommon man, I believe; and most people will understand fast enough that it must be a woman rather out of the common, also, who, in the long run, would come up to my mark. 'Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this, Bounderby, urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'before you commit yourself to such a decision.

However, though I am not influenced by manners and station, Loo Bounderby may be. She hadn't my advantages disadvantages you would call 'em, but I call 'em advantages so you'll not waste your power, I dare say. 'Mr.

Sparsit to do anything she pleased, that considerate lady made the beverage, and handed it to Mr. Bounderby. 'It will do you good, sir. It will warm your heart. It is the sort of thing you want, and ought to take, sir. And when Mr. Bounderby said, 'Your health, ma'am! she answered with great feeling, 'Thank you, sir.

Bounderby, now blowing a gale, 'that there are a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too good for! Now, Mr. Harthouse, you have been knocking about in the world some time. Did you ever meet with anything like that man out of this blessed country? And Mr. Bounderby pointed him out for inspection, with an angry finger.

In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr. Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs. Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday.

'I'm as sooary as yo, sir, when the people's leaders is bad, said Stephen, shaking his head. 'They taks such as offers. Haply 'tis na' the sma'est o' their misfortuns when they can get no better. The wind began to get boisterous. 'Now, you'll think this pretty well, Harthouse, said Mr. Bounderby. 'You'll think this tolerably strong.

Bounderby, he resumed, in a lighter manner, and yet with a show of effort in assuming it, which was even more expressive than the manner he dismissed; 'it is no irrevocable offence in a young fellow of your brother's years, if he is heedless, inconsiderate, and expensive a little dissipated, in the common phrase. Is he? 'Yes. 'Allow me to be frank. Do you think he games at all?

So I thank you for the goodwill you have shown towards us." Shortly after which oration, as they were going on a nuptial trip to Lyons, in order that Mr. Bounderby might see how the hands got on in those parts, and whether they, too, required to be fed with gold spoons, the happy pair departed for the railroad. As the bride passed downstairs her brother Tom whispered to her.

So much the more. Both in his sister's presence, and after she had left the room, the whelp took no pains to hide his contempt for Mr. Bounderby, whenever he could indulge it without the observation of that independent man, by making wry faces, or shutting one eye. Without responding to these telegraphic communications, Mr.

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