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Miss Tox had arrived on the wheels just now alluded to, and came running into the room in a breathless condition. 'My dear Louisa,'said Miss Tox, 'is the vacancy still unsupplied? 'You good soul, yes, said Mrs Chick. 'Then, my dear Louisa, returned Miss Tox, 'I hope and believe but in one moment, my dear, I'll introduce the party.
The Bagstock breed is degenerating in the forsaken person of old Joe. And the Major, becoming bluer and bluer and puffing his cheeks further and further over the stiff ridge of his tight cravat, stared at Miss Tox, until his eyes seemed as if he were at that moment being overdone before the slow fire at the military college.
'Oh, certainly! returned Mrs Chick in the same tone. 'With a little abstinence, you know, my dear, in point of vegetables. 'And pickles, perhaps, suggested Miss Tox. 'With such exceptions, said Louisa, 'she'll consult her choice entirely, and be under no restraint at all, my love.
'This, returned Mr Dombey, 'is some cold preparation of calf's head, I think. I see cold fowls ham patties salad lobster. Miss Tox will do me the honour of taking some wine? Champagne to Miss Tox. There was a toothache in everything.
'All that I wish to say, Mrs Richards, resumed Miss Tox, 'and I address myself to you too, Sir, is this. That any intelligence of the proceedings of the family, of the welfare of the family, of the health of the family, that reaches you, will be always most acceptable to me.
Notwithstanding which, Ma'am, he added, raising his eyes from his plate, and casting them across Princess's Place, to where Miss Tox was at that moment visible at her window watering her flowers, 'you're a scheming jade, Ma'am, and your ambition is a piece of monstrous impudence.
You to marry without beauty! You to marry without dignity! You to marry without connexion! There is nobody in the world, not mad, who could dream of daring to entertain such a preposterous idea!" Miss Tox stopped clipping; and with her head among the plants, listened attentively. Perhaps Miss Tox thought there was hope in this exordium, and the warmth of Mrs Chick.
Rob, overhearing her, called up a look, to justify the eulogium, but it was hardly the right look. 'And now, Mrs Richards, said Miss Tox, 'and you too, Sir, addressing Toodle 'I'll tell you, plainly and truly, what I have come here for.
Miss Tox was slow in coming to the plants, this morning. The weather was warm, the wind southerly; and there was a sigh of the summer-time In Princess's Place, that turned Miss Tox's thoughts upon the country.
'My dear Paul, returned his sister, 'you do Miss Tox but justice, as a man of your penetration was sure, I knew, to do. I believe if there are three words in the English language for which she has a respect amounting almost to veneration, those words are, Dombey and Son. 'Well, said Mr Dombey, 'I believe it. It does Miss Tox credit.
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