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Then they pressed about her, kissing and embracing her: and brought the children to take leave of her; and were a tender-hearted, simple, foolish, set of women altogether. Then she had to take her farewell of the male part of the company, and last of all of Mr. Sleary.
Gradgrind found an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject. "It is of no moment," said he, "whether this person is to be expected back at any time, or the contrary. He is gone away, and there is no present expectation of his return. That, I believe, is agreed on all hands." "Thath agreed, Thquire. Thtick to that!" from Sleary. "Well, then.
I've never met with nothing but beer ath'll ever clean a comic blackamoor. Mr. Gradgrind rapidly assented; Mr. Sleary rapidly turned out from a box, a smock frock, a felt hat, and other essentials; the whelp rapidly changed clothes behind a screen of baize; Mr. Sleary rapidly brought beer, and washed him white again.
The way in whith a dog'll find you the dithtanthe he'll come! 'His scent, said Mr. Gradgrind, 'being so fine. 'I'm bletht if I know what to call it, repeated Sleary, shaking his head, 'but I have had dogth find me, Thquire, in a way that made me think whether that dog hadn't gone to another dog, and thed, "You don't happen to know a perthon of the name of Thleary, do you?
Then they pressed about her, and bent over her in very natural attitudes, kissing and embracing her: and brought the children to take leave of her; and were a tender-hearted, simple, foolish set of women altogether. 'Now, Jupe, said Mr. Gradgrind. 'If you are quite determined, come! Mr. Sleary was reserved until the last.
"You'll find the lines you tried to fool me with at the foot of page thirteen. Look." I looked, and there lay that vile Sleary sentiment, in all the majesty of type, staring me in the eyes. "And here," added my visitor, opening Alice in the Looking-Glass "here is the poem that to your mind holds all the philosophy of life: "'Come to my arms, my beamish boy, He chortled in his joy."
I am only going, on the reasonable grounds I have mentioned, to take him back to Coketown. If he was to resist, I should set up the cry of Stop thief! But, he won't resist, you may depend upon it. Mr. Sleary, who with his mouth open and his rolling eye as immovably jammed in his head as his fixed one, had listened to these doctrines with profound attention, here stepped forward.
People must be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow," continued Sleary, "they can't be alwayth a working, nor yet they can't be alwayth a learning. Make the betht of uth; not the wurtht. I've got my living out of horthe-riding all my life, I know, but I conthider that I lay down the philothophy of the thubject when I thay to you, Thquire, make the betht of uth; not the wurtht!"
The Sleary philosophy was propounded as they went downstairs; and the fixed eye of Philosophy and its rolling eye, too, soon lost the three figures, and the basket in the darkness of the street. To Mr. Bounderby's house the weeping Sissy was conducted, and remained there while Mr. Gradgrind returned to Stone Lodge to mature his plans for the clown's daughter. He soon came back to Mr.
I am willing to take charge of you, Jupe, and to educate you, and provide for you. Also, that if you accompany me now, it is understood that you communicate no more with any of your friends who are here present. These observations comprise the whole of the case." "At the thame time," said Sleary, "I muth put in my word, Thquire, tho that both thides of the banner may be equally theen.
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