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Considering this a favourable moment for the display of the valuables, Captain Cuttle advanced to the table; and clearing a space among the breakfast-cups at Mr Dombey's elbow, produced the silver watch, the ready money, the teaspoons, and the sugar-tongs; and piling them up into a heap that they might look as precious as possible, delivered himself of these words: 'Half a loaf's better than no bread, and the same remark holds good with crumbs.
'It appears to me, said Mr Dombey, with haughty reserve, and yet with some embarrassment, 'that Mrs Dombey's views upon the subject form no part of it as it presents itself to you and me, Carker. But it may be so.
'If you should never hear of me, or see me more, Ned, remember an old friend as he will remember you to the last kindly; and at least until the period I have mentioned has expired, keep a home in the old place for Walter. There are no debts, the loan from Dombey's House is paid off and all my keys I send with this. Keep this quiet, and make no inquiry for me; it is useless.
May I for Miss Dombey's sake, and for my own take your hand before I go? She gave him the gloved hand she had maimed last night. He took it in one of his, and kissed it, and withdrew. And when he had closed the door, he waved the hand with which he had taken hers, and thrust it in his breast. Edith saw no one that night, but locked her door, and kept herself alone.
And by the way, she chiefly lived upon the reputation of some diamonds, and her family connexions. 'My friend Dombey, Ma'am, returned the Major, 'may be devoted to her in secret, but a man who is paramount in the greatest city in the universe 'No one can be a stranger, said Mrs Skewton, 'to Mr Dombey's immense influence.
'The first Mrs Dombey had great good sense, said Mr Dombey, in a gentlemanly toleration of the dead, 'and very correct feeling. 'Is Miss Dombey like her mother, do you think? said Carker. Swiftly and darkly, Mr Dombey's face changed. His confidential agent eyed it keenly. 'I have approached a painful subject, he said, in a soft regretful tone of voice, irreconcilable with his eager eye.
Susan was unusually emphatic and destitute of punctuation in her discourse on this night, which was the night of Mr Dombey's being brought home, because, having been sent downstairs by Florence to inquire after him, she had been obliged to deliver her message to her mortal enemy Mrs Pipchin; who, without carrying it in to Mr Dombey, had taken upon herself to return what Miss Nipper called a huffish answer, on her own responsibility.
It was on the very same day whose evening set upon the last chapter, and when Mr Dombey's world was busiest with the elopement of his wife, that the window of the room in which the brother and sister sat at their early breakfast, was darkened by the unexpected shadow of a man coming to the little porch: which man was Perch the Messenger.
Mr Dombey's servants moralise so much about it, and are so repentant over their early tea, at home, that by eight o'clock or so, they settle down into confirmed seriousness; and Mr Perch, arriving at that time from the City, fresh and jocular, with a white waistcoat and a comic song, ready to spend the evening, and prepared for any amount of dissipation, is amazed to find himself coldly received, and Mrs Perch but poorly, and to have the pleasing duty of escorting that lady home by the next omnibus.
But whatever I leave behind me, or whatever I can give you, you in such a House as Dombey's are in the road to use well and make the most of. Be diligent, try to like it, my dear boy, work for a steady independence, and be happy! 'I'll do everything I can, Uncle, to deserve your affection. Indeed I will, said the boy, earnestly. 'I know it, said Solomon.
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