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Updated: June 18, 2025
But not to remain long absent; for Cook, who has the reputation of being extremely good-hearted, says, whatever they do, let 'em stand by one another now, Towlinson, for there's no telling how soon they may be divided. Mrs Perch is immensely affected by this moving address, and openly remarks that Cook is an angel.
This announcement is received with acclamation; and Mrs Perch, projecting her soul into futurity, says, 'girls, in Cook's ear, in a solemn whisper. Misfortune in the family without feasting, in these lower regions, couldn't be. Therefore Cook tosses up a hot dish or two for supper, and Mr Towlinson compounds a lobster salad to be devoted to the same hospitable purpose.
Towlinson begins to think there's a fate in it, and wants to know if anybody can tell him of any good that ever came of living in a corner house. It seems to all of them as having happened a long time ago; though yet the child lies, calm and beautiful, upon his little bed.
The first, are practising in a back settlement near Battlebridge; the second, put themselves in communication, through their chief, with Mr Towlinson, to whom they offer terms to be bought off; and the third, in the person of an artful trombone, lurks and dodges round the corner, waiting for some traitor tradesman to reveal the place and hour of breakfast, for a bribe.
Inside and outside alike; bricklayers, painters, carpenters, masons; hammer, hod, brush, pickaxe, saw, trowel: all at work together, in full chorus. Florence descended from the coach, half doubting if it could be the right house, until she recognized Towlinson, the butler, standing at the door to receive her. She passed him as if she were in a dream, and hurried upstairs.
I should wish to hear what accusation Towlinson can make! 'Surely you must know, Louisa, observed Mr Dombey, 'that I don't question your natural devotion to, and regard for, the future head of my house. 'I am glad to hear it, Paul, said Mrs Chick; 'but really you are very odd, and sometimes talk very strangely, though without meaning it, I know.
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