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'And what is your name, my pale child? said Lady Skettles. 'Dombey, answered Paul. Sir Barnet Skettles immediately interposed, and said that he had had the honour of meeting Paul's father at a public dinner, and that he hoped he was very well.
'Nothing could be better than Miss Florence, Sir, said Polly eagerly, 'but I understood from her maid that they were not to Mr Dombey rang the bell, and walked till it was answered. 'Tell them always to let Miss Florence be with Richards when she chooses, and go out with her, and so forth. Tell them to let the children be together, when Richards wishes it.
As Mr Dombey dropped his eyes, and adjusted his neckcloth again, the smiling face of Mr Carker the Manager became in a moment, and without any stage of transition, transformed into a most intent and frowning face, scanning his closely, and with an ugly sneer.
'Mrs Pipchin, said Mr Dombey, wheeling round, 'will, with your permission, Doctor and Mrs Blimber, visit Paul now and then. 'Whenever Mrs Pipchin pleases, observed the Doctor. 'Always happy to see her, said Mrs Blimber. 'I think, said Mr Dombey, 'I have given all the trouble I need, and may take my leave. Paul, my child, he went close to him, as he sat upon the table. 'Good-bye.
'You can leave the room, Sir! said Mr Dombey, haughtily. He crushed the letter in his hand; and having watched Walter out at the door, put it in his pocket without breaking the seal. 'These continual references to Mr Carker the Junior, Mr Carker the Manager began, as soon as they were alone, 'are, to a man in my position, uttered before one in yours, so unspeakably distressing
It was perfectly natural that in looking for one, he should look high. Miss Tox with tears laid down this proposition, and fully admitted it, twenty times a day. She never recalled the lofty manner in which Mr Dombey had made her subservient to his convenience and caprices, and had graciously permitted her to be one of the nurses of his little son.
'It is the only true although it is a faint expression of what is within me, she replied. 'But if I thought it would conciliate you, I would repress it, if it were repressible by any human effort. I will do nothing that you ask. 'I am not accustomed to ask, Mrs Dombey, he observed; 'I direct. 'I will hold no place in your house to-morrow, or on any recurrence of to-morrow.
The other commodities were addressed to the general public; but they were never offered by the vendors to Mr Dombey. When he appeared, the dealers in those wares fell off respectfully.
Dombey and Son Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
Dombey by surprise. "What is money, Paul?" he answered, "Money?" "Yes," said the child, laying his hands upon the elbows of his little chair, and turning his face up towards Mr. Dombey. "What is money?" Mr. Dombey was in a difficulty.
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