CHARLES DICKENS DOMBEY AND SON CHAPTER I Dombey and ...

'Take some water, Johnson--dishes, Sir,' said Mr. Feeder.
'Of various sorts of fowl, five thousand dishes.'
'Or try a crust of bread,' said Mr. Feeder.
'And one dish,' pursued Doctor Blimber, raising his voice still higher as he
looked all round the table, 'called, from its enormous dimensions, the
shield of Minerva, and made, among other costly ingredients, of the brains
of pheasants--'
'Ow, ow, ow!' (from Johnson.)
'Woodcocks--'
'Ow, ow, ow!'
'The sounds of the fish called scari--'
'You'll burst some vessel in your head,' said Mr. Feeder.
'You had better let it come.'
'And the spawn of the lamprey, brought from the Carpathian Sea,' pursued the
Doctor, in his severest voice; 'when we read of costly entertainments such
as these, and still remember, that we have a Titus--'
'What would be your mother's feelings if you died of apoplexy!' said Mr.
Feeder.
'A Domitian--'
'And you're blue, you know,' said Mr. Feeder.
'A Nero, a Tiberius, a Caligula, a Heliogabalus, and many more,' pursued the
Doctor; 'it is, Mr. Feeder--if you are doing me the honour to