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Mr Dombey and his conductress were soon heard coming downstairs again, talking all the way; and presently they re-entered the Doctor's study. 'I hope, Mr Dombey, said the Doctor, laying down his book, 'that the arrangements meet your approval. 'They are excellent, Sir, said Mr Dombey. 'Very fair, indeed, said Mrs Pipchin, in a low voice; never disposed to give too much encouragement.
Mrs Pipchin has remained austere and stony during the proceedings, in her own room; or has occasionally looked in at the sale to see what the goods are fetching, and to bid for one particular easy chair. Mrs Pipchin has been the highest bidder for the easy chair, and sits upon her property when Mrs Chick comes to see her. 'How is my brother, Mrs Pipchin? says Mrs Chick.
Dombey therefore decided to remove him, not from Brighton, but to Doctor Blimber's educational establishment. "I fear," said Mr. Dombey, addressing Mrs. Pipchin, "that my son in his studies is behind many children of his age. Now instead of being behind his peers, my son ought to be before them far before them. There is an eminence ready for him to mount upon.
Then he told Mrs Pipchin about the analysis, and about his being certainly old-fashioned, and took Mrs Pipchin's opinion on that point, and whether she knew why it was, and what it meant.
Besides, I had a very fair connexion at Brighton when I came here little Pankey's folks alone were worth a good eighty pounds a-year to me and I can't afford to throw it away. I've written to my niece, and she expects me by this time. 'Have you spoken to my brother? inquires Mrs Chick 'Oh, yes, it's very easy to say speak to him, retorts Mrs Pipchin. 'How is it done?
'There's your money, said Mrs Pipchin, who in pursuance of her system, and in recollection of the Mines, was accustomed to rout the servants about, as she had routed her young Brighton boarders; to the everlasting acidulation of Master Bitherstone, 'and the sooner this house sees your back the better.
When this great truth had been thoroughly impressed upon her, she was regaled with rice; and subsequently repeated the form of grace established in the Castle, in which there was a special clause, thanking Mrs Pipchin for a good dinner. Mrs Pipchin's niece, Berinthia, took cold pork.
Mrs Blimber opined, with something like a shiver, that he was an unaccountable child; and, allowing for the difference of visage, looked at him pretty much as Mrs Pipchin had been used to do. 'Take him round the house, Cornelia, said the Doctor, 'and familiarise him with his new sphere. Go with that young lady, Dombey.
'Hoity-toity! exclaimed Mrs Pipchin, shaking out her black bombazeen skirts, and plucking up all the ogress within her. Mr Dombey waited until Mrs Pipchin had done bridling and shaking her head, and frowning down a legion of Bitherstones and Pankeys; and then said quietly, but correctively, 'He, my good madam, he.
Pipchin's face, while the old black cat lay coiled up on the fender purring and winking at the fire, and Paul went on studying Mrs, Pipchin and the cat and the fire, night after night, as if they were a history of necromancy in three volumes.
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