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Updated: June 18, 2025
A man, as a man, from a dustman up to AEschylus, is God's work, and good to read, as all works of Nature are: but the silly animal is never content; is ever trying to fit itself into another shape; wants to deny its own identity, and has not the courage to utter its own thoughts.
'Give me your attention, Bella. I am not angry. 'I AM! said Bella. 'I say, resumed the Golden Dustman, 'I am not angry, and I mean kindly to you, and I want to overlook this. So you'll stay where you are, and we'll agree to say no more about it. 'No, I can't stay here, cried Bella, rising hurriedly again; 'I can't think of staying here. I must go home for good.
'And when I think of a Scaffolding of Dusk that builds the Night, Rogers went on in a lower tone to himself, yet not so low that Minks, listening in amazement, did not catch every syllable, 'or of a Dustman, Sweep, and Lamplighter, of a Starlight Express, or a vast Star Net that binds the world in sympathy together, and when I weave all these into a story, whose centre somehow is the Pleiades all this is real and actual, and and
"My first task, however, will be to collect them." "Can you tell me," he said to a dustman, "where the market-place is?" "Ain't none." "The Town Hall, then?" "Likewise." "What place is there, then," said Mr. Lavender, "where people congregate?" "They don't." "Do they never hold public meetings here?" "Ah!" said the dustman mysteriously. "I wish to address them on the subject of babies." "Bill!
Casting about for ways and means of dissolving the connexion without loss of money, reproaching himself for having been betrayed into an avowal of his secret, and complimenting himself beyond measure on his purely accidental good luck, he beguiled the distance between Clerkenwell and the mansion of the Golden Dustman.
'No, no, no, said Mr Boffin; 'no patronizing! Let's keep out of THAT, whatever we come to. 'There's more than enough of that about, without us; ain't there, Noddy? said Mrs Boffin. 'I believe you, old lady! returned the Golden Dustman. 'Overmuch indeed! 'But people sometimes like to be patronized; don't they, sir? asked Bella, looking up. 'I don't.
He seats the creature at table, where he pronounces a grace that sounds like the scream of the man in the square that used to cry mackerel, flings his meat down his throat by shovelfuls, like a dustman loading his cart, and apparently without the most distant perception of what he is swallowing, then bleats forth another unnatural set of tones, by way of returning thanks, stalks out of the room, and immerses himself among a parcel of huge worm-eaten folios that are as uncouth as himself!
And more! proceeded Bella, breaking into tears again, 'you were wholly undeserving of the Gentleman you have lost. 'Why, you don't mean to say, Miss Bella, the Golden Dustman slowly remonstrated, 'that you set up Rokesmith against me? 'I do! said Bella. 'He is worth a Million of you.
He seats the creature at table, where he pronounces a grace that sounds like the scream of the man in the square that used to cry mackerel, flings his meat down his throat by shovelfuls, like a dustman loading his cart, and apparently without the most distant perception of what he is swallowing, then bleats forth another unnatural set of tones by way of returning thanks, stalks out of the room, and immerses himself among a parcel of huge worm-eaten folios that are as uncouth as himself!
After so many years of application to business he had earned it. Crayfield, it seemed, had given him a taste for sentimental journeys. But the fact was, too, the Tramp, the Dustman, the Lamplighter, and the Starlight Express were all in his thoughts still. And it was spring. He felt this sudden desire to see his cousin again, and make the acquaintance of his cousin's children.
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