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She saw her father turn white in the face, and heard him ask in a quick, trembling voice, for Mrs Dombey's maid. The whole house was roused; for she was there, in a moment, very pale too, and speaking incoherently. She said she had dressed her mistress early full two hours before she went out and had been told, as she often was, that she would not be wanted at night.
'Do you know better than anyone, that you have no need to ask? 'Then I hope, Carker, said Mr Dombey, 'that your regret in the acquisition of Mrs Dombey's displeasure, may be almost counterbalanced by your satisfaction in retaining my confidence and good opinion. 'I have the misfortune, I find, returned Carker, 'to have incurred that displeasure. Mrs Dombey has expressed it to you?
That he was afraid he took a rash step in doing anything for the boy, and one that might expose him to the censure of the prudent; but that he did it of himself and for himself, and risked the consequences single-handed; and that his mother's past connexion with Mr Dombey's family had nothing to do with it, and that Mr Dombey had nothing to do with it, but that he, Mr Carker, was the be-all and the end-all of this business.
And so little objection had Perch to being deferential in the last degree, that if he might have laid himself at Mr Dombey's feet, or might have called him by some such title as used to be bestowed upon the Caliph Haroun Alraschid, he would have been all the better pleased.
There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior, said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same. And again he said 'Dombey and Son, in exactly the same tone as before. Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr Dombey's life.
The child shrunk as she listened, and was gone before her humble friend looked around again. Just around the corner from Mr. Dombey's office was the little shop of a nautical-instrument maker whose name was Solomon Gills.
But on this occasion, Major Bagstock, even amidst these many occupations, found time to be social; and his sociality consisted in excessive slyness for the behoof of Mr Carker, and the betrayal of Mr Dombey's state of mind. 'Dombey, said the Major, 'you don't eat; what's the matter? 'Thank you, returned the gentleman, 'I am doing very well; I have no great appetite today.
When all the rest were got in and were seated, one of these mild men still appeared, in smiling confusion, totally destitute and unprovided for, and, escorted by the butler, made the complete circuit of the table twice before his chair could be found, which it finally was, on Mrs Dombey's left hand; after which the mild man never held up his head again.
'Fill this to the brim, you scoundrel, said the Major, holding up his glass. 'Fill Mr Carker's to the brim too. And Mr Dombey's too. By Gad, gentlemen, said the Major, winking at his new friend, while Mr Dombey looked into his plate with a conscious air, 'we'll consecrate this glass of wine to a Divinity whom Joe is proud to know, and at a distance humbly and reverently to admire.
'The faint-hearted, fawning knaves, he muttered, with his two shining rows of teeth laid bare. 'There's not one among them, who wouldn't feign to be so shocked and outraged ! Bah! There's not one among them, but if he had at once the power, and the wit and daring to use it, would scatter Dombey's pride and lay it low, as ruthlessly as I rake out these ashes.
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