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Updated: June 18, 2025
Inside and outside alike: bricklayers, painters, carpenters, masons: hammer, hod, brush, pickaxe, saw, and trowel: all at work together, in full chorus! Florence descended from the coach, half doubting if it were, or could be the right house, until she recognised Towlinson, with a sun-burnt face, standing at the door to receive her. 'There is nothing the matter? inquired Florence. 'Oh no, Miss.
Mr Towlinson replies to Cook, far be it from him to stand in the way of that good feeling which he could wish to see; and adjourning in quest of the housemaid, and presently returning with that young lady on his arm, informs the kitchen that foreigners is only his fun, and that him and Anne have now resolved to take one another for better for worse, and to settle in Oxford Market in the general greengrocery and herb and leech line, where your kind favours is particular requested.
'Because if that is your religious feelings, Mary Daws, says Cook warmly, 'I don't know where you mean to go to. Mr Towlinson don't know either; nor anybody; and the young kitchen-maid, appearing not to know exactly, herself, and scouted by the general voice, is covered with confusion, as with a garment.
There were not two dragon sentries keeping ward before the gate of this above, as in magic legend are usually found on duty over the wronged innocence imprisoned; but besides a glowering visage, with its thin lips parted wickedly, that surveyed all comers from above the archway of the door, there was a monstrous fantasy of rusty iron, curling and twisting like a petrifaction of an arbour over threshold, budding in spikes and corkscrew points, and bearing, one on either side, two ominous extinguishers, that seemed to say, 'Who enter here, leave light behind! There were no talismanic characters engraven on the portal, but the house was now so neglected in appearance, that boys chalked the railings and the pavement particularly round the corner where the side wall was and drew ghosts on the stable door; and being sometimes driven off by Mr Towlinson, made portraits of him, in return, with his ears growing out horizontally from under his hat.
A thundering knock from the obnoxious foreigner anticipates the rush of Mr Towlinson and party to open it; and Mr Dombey and his bride alight, and walk in arm in arm. 'My sweetest Edith! cries an agitated voice upon the stairs. 'My dearest Dombey! and the short sleeves wreath themselves about the happy couple in turn, and embrace them.
'I beg you'll have the goodness, when you happen to see me here, not to mention it. My visits are merely to Mrs Pipchin. 'Very good, Miss, says Towlinson. 'Shocking circumstances occur, Towlinson, says Miss Tox. 'Very much so indeed, Miss, rejoins Towlinson.
The eye of Mr Towlinson is so severe and so expressive here, that the housemaid is turning hysterical, when she and all the rest, roused by the intelligence that the Bride is going away, hurry upstairs to witness her departure. The chariot is at the door; the Bride is descending to the hall, where Mr Dombey waits for her.
Mr Towlinson, still mindful of his old wrong, opines that a foreigner would hardly know what to do with so much money, unless he spent it on his whiskers; which bitter sarcasm causes the housemaid to withdraw in tears.
Mr Towlinson thinks not, and hints at a refuge in one of them genteel almshouses of the better kind. 'Ah, where he'll have his little garden, you know, says Cook plaintively, 'and bring up sweet peas in the spring. 'Exactly so, says Mr Towlinson, 'and be one of the Brethren of something or another. 'We are all brethren, says Mrs Perch, in a pause of her drink.
'There are great alterations going on. 'Yes, Miss, great alterations, said Towlinson. Florence passed him as if she were in a dream, and hurried upstairs. The garish light was in the long-darkened drawing-room and there were steps and platforms, and men In paper caps, in the high places.
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