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'Polly, my gal, said Mr Toodle, with a young Toodle on each knee, and two more making tea for him, and plenty more scattered about Mr Toodle was never out of children, but always kept a good supply on hand 'you ain't seen our Biler lately, have you? 'No, replied Polly, 'but he's almost certain to look in tonight. It's his right evening, and he's very regular.
Mr Toodle had only three stages of existence. He was either taking refreshment in the bosom just mentioned, or he was tearing through the country at from twenty-five to fifty miles an hour, or he was sleeping after his fatigues.
These vents for their excitement found, they gradually closed about Mr Toodle again, and eyed him hard as he got through more bread and butter and tea; affecting, however, to have no further expectations of their own in reference to those viands, but to be conversing on foreign subjects, and whispering confidentially.
Do you understand me? Mrs Toodle seemed doubtful about it; and as to Toodle himself, he had evidently no doubt whatever, that he was all abroad. 'You have children of your own, said Mr Dombey. 'It is not at all in this bargain that you need become attached to my child, or that my child need become attached to you. I don't expect or desire anything of the kind. Quite the reverse.
I shall bring a few little books, if you'll allow me, and some work, and of an evening now and then, they'll learn dear me, they'll learn a great deal, I trust, and be a credit to their teacher. Mr Toodle, who had a great respect for learning, jerked his head approvingly at his wife, and moistened his hands with dawning satisfaction.
As the husband did nothing but chuckle and grin, and continually draw his right hand across his mouth, moistening the palm, Mrs Toodle, after nudging him twice or thrice in vain, dropped a curtsey and replied 'that perhaps if she was to be called out of her name, it would be considered in the wages. 'Oh, of course, said Mr Dombey. 'I desire to make it a question of wages, altogether.
'I tell you what, Polly, me dear, says Mr Toodle, 'being now an ingine-driver, and well to do in the world, I shouldn't allow of your coming here, to be made dull-like, if it warn't for favours past. But favours past, Polly, is never to be forgot. To them which is in adversity, besides, your face is a cord'l. So let's have another kiss on it, my dear.
He was not a bad-looking fellow, nor even what could be fairly called a dirty-looking fellow, in spite of this; and, in short, he was Mr Toodle, professionally clothed. 'I shall have the honour of stokin' of you down, Sir, said Mr Toodle. 'Beg your pardon, Sir. I hope you find yourself a coming round?
His eyes closed in a sort of intoxication of pleasure, but he saw all that went on in some miraculous way. "First lady lead to the right toodle rum rum! Four hands round" The boys were immensely pleased with him. They delighted in his antics rather than in his tunes, which were exceedingly few and simple.
And Susan, setting off that very afternoon to the Toodle domicile, to sound Mrs Richards, returned in triumph the same evening, accompanied by the identical rosy-cheeked apple-faced Polly, whose demonstrations, when brought into Florence's presence, were hardly less affectionate than those of Susan Nipper herself.
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