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In satisfying himself, however, Mr Toodle was not regardless of the younger branches about him, who, although they had made their own evening repast, were on the look-out for irregular morsels, as possessing a relish.
'Where have you worked all your life? 'Mostly underground, Sir, 'till I got married. I come to the level then. I'm a going on one of these here railroads when they comes into full play. As he added in one of his hoarse whispers, 'We means to bring up little Biler to that line, Mr Dombey inquired haughtily who little Biler was. 'The eldest on 'em, Sir, said Toodle, with a smile.
'Why, Sir, returned Toodle, shaking his head with a face of great anxiety and distress, 'I'm forced to say, Sir, that he's gone wrong. 'He has gone wrong, has he? said Mr Dombey, with a hard kind of satisfaction.
Even then, the smallest Toodle but one remained in her lap, holding on tight with both arms round her neck; while the smallest Toodle but two mounted on the back of the chair, and made desperate efforts, with one leg in the air, to kiss her round the corner. 'Look! there's a pretty little lady come to see you, said Polly; 'and see how quiet she is! what a beautiful little lady, ain't she?
The rising Toodles set up a shrill murmur, expressive of their resolution to profit by the paternal advice. 'But what makes you say this along of Rob, father? asked his wife, anxiously. 'Polly, old ooman, said Mr Toodle, 'I don't know as I said it partickler along o' Rob, I'm sure.
Polly coming out unscathed from this ordeal, Mrs Chick withdrew with her report to her brother's room, and as an emphatic comment on it, and corroboration of it, carried the two rosiest little Toodles with her. Toodle being the family name of the apple-faced family.
'Why, it's as much as you can afford to keep them! said Mr Dombey. 'I couldn't hardly afford but one thing in the world less, Sir. 'What is that? 'To lose 'em, Sir. 'Can you read? asked Mr Dombey. 'Why, not partick'ler, Sir. 'Write? 'With chalk, Sir? 'With anything? 'I could make shift to chalk a little bit, I think, if I was put to it, said Toodle after some reflection.
The black-eyed was so softened by this deferential behaviour, that she caught up little Miss Toodle who was running past, and took her to Banbury Cross immediately. 'But where's my pretty boy? said Polly. 'My poor fellow? I came all this way to see him in his new clothes. 'Ah what a pity! cried Jemima. 'He'll break his heart, when he hears his mother has been here. He's at school, Polly.
'I hope, Towlinson, says Miss Tox, who, in her instruction of the Toodle family, has acquired an admonitorial tone, and a habit of improving passing occasions, 'that what has happened here, will be a warning to you, Towlinson. 'Thank you, Miss, I'm sure, says Towlinson.
Now, I really hope, Mrs Richards, said Miss Tox earnestly, 'that you will take this, as I mean it, like a good-humoured creature, as you always were. Polly was gratified, and showed it. Mr Toodle didn't know whether he was gratified or not, and preserved a stolid calmness.
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