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and politeness of his manner could not quite conceal. He then bowed himself for a moment over Mrs. Skewton's condescending hand, and lastly bowed to Edith. Coldly returning his salute without looking at him, and neither seating herself nor inviting him to be seated, she waited for him to speak. Entrenched in her pride and power, and with all the obduracy of her spirit summoned about her, still her old conviction that she and her mother had been known by this man in their worst colours, from their first acquaintance; that every degradation she had suffered in her own eyes was plain to him as to herself; that he read her life as though it were a vile book, and fluttered the leaves before her in slight looks and tones of voice which no one else could detect; weakened and undermined her. Proudly as she opposed herself to him, with her commanding face exacting his humility, her disdainful lip repulsing him, her bosom angry at his intrusion, and the dark lashes of her eyes sullenly veiling their light, that no ray of it might shine upon him--and submissively as he stood before her, with an entreating injured manner, but with complete submission to her will--she knew, in her own soul, that the cases were reversed, and that the triumph and superiority were his, and that he knew it full well. 'I have presumed,' said Mr. Carker, 'to solicit an interview, and I have ventured to describe it as being one of business, because--' 'Perhaps you are charged by Mr. Dombey with some message of reproof,' said Edith. 'You possess Mr. Dombey's confidence in such an unusual degree, Sir, that you would scarcely surprise me if that were your business.' 'I have no message to the lady who sheds a lustre upon his name,' said Mr. Carker. 'But I entreat that lady, on my own behalf, to be just to a very humble claimant for justice at her hands--a mere dependant of Mr. Dombey's--which is a position of humility; and to reflect upon my perfect helplessness last night, and the impossibility of my avoiding the share that was forced upon me in a very painful occasion.'
'My dearest Edith,' hinted Cleopatra in a low voice, as she held her eye-glass aside, 'really very charming of Mr. What'shis-name. And full of heart!' 'For I do,' said Mr. Carker, appealing to Mrs. Skewton with a look of grateful deference,--'I do venture to call it a painful occasion, though merely because it was so to me, who had the misfortune to be present. So light a difference, as between the principals--between those who love each other with disinterested devotion, and would make any sacrifice of self, in such a cause--is nothing. As Mrs. Skewton herself expressed, with so much truth and feeling last night, it is nothing.' Edith could not look at him, but she said after a few moments, 'And your business, Sir--' 'Edith, my pet,' said Mrs. Skewton, 'all this time Mr. Carker is standing! My dear Mr. Carker, take a seat, I beg.' He offered no reply to the mother, but fixed his eyes on the proud daughter, as though he would only be bidden by her, and was resolved to be bidden by her. Edith, in spite of herself, sat down, and slightly motioned with her hand to him to be seated too. No action could be colder, haughtier, more insolent in its air of supremacy and disrespect, but she had struggled against even that concession ineffectually, and it was wrested from her. That was enough! Mr. Carker sat down. 'May I be allowed, Madam,' said Carker, turning his white teeth on Mrs. Skewton like a light--'a lady of your excellent sense and quick feeling will give me credit, for good reason, I am sure--to address what I have to say, to Mrs. Dombey, and to leave her to impart it to you who are her best and dearest friend--next to Mr. Dombey?' Mrs. Skewton would have retired, but Edith stopped her. Edith would have stopped him too, and indignantly ordered him to speak openly or not at all, but that he said, in a low voice--'Miss Florence--the young lady who has
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CHARLES DICKENS DOMBEY AND SON CHAP
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oarding-schools and books. Mr. Domb
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conjunction with Doctor Parker Peps
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His meditations on the subject were
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clipping a step of ordinary compass
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should designate him.' 'Why, my dea
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perfectly colourless face, and deep
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It appeared so probable that such a
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your account. But it did so happen,
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into a close private examination of
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have it when and how she pleases. M
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child's foster-father to the door,
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'As to living, Richards, you know,'
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On Richards, who was established up
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'Yes, my pretty,' answered Richards
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'And the child's heart,' said Polly
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Florence. 'Oh! there's a Tartar wit
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'Good evening, Richards.' Just the
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pride, his previous feelings of ind
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The little altercation between them
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telescopes, compasses, charts, maps
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oad. No. He was not among the bobbi
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about ships that are going to sail,
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shall now beg to propose Mr. Solomo
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'I'll do everything I can, Uncle, t
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suppose we change the subject.' The
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'But he's chockfull of science,' he
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know all about her, I shall make bo
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connexion and influence.' 'I don't
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soul. In all his life, he had never
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'Startled fawn?' suggested Miss Tox
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'I'll trouble you also, if you plea
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conscientious goblin of the bull sp
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'How do you do, Miss Tox?' said Mr.
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osoms. Miss Tox's hand trembled as
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look, that he would like to catch h
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'Expose him to,' said Mrs. Chick. '
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thanks; but finding it quite imposs
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CHAPTER VI Paul's Second Deprivatio
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lying near it could have laughed, i
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aspect. 'I never was so glad to see
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these disclosures, she partook of s
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With a wild confusion before her, o
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'I'm not a going to keep you, even,
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ones, and smoked a very short black
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'Now then!' said this man, happenin
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efore him. 'Don't cry, Miss Dombey,
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Florence, he still stood glancing a
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Florence on the sofa and his nephew
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to say it's all right, Sir. Miss Do
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the wooden midshipman behind him se
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CHAPTER VII A Bird's-eye Glimpse of
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Bagstock, old J. Bagstock, old Josh
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of Miss Tox's own copying. Over and
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eams belonging to Miss Tox; then wo
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Chick or Miss Tox--dared ever whisp
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and turning the old face up towards
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mind of his son, who listened atten
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the matter with Paul, and what Mr.
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'There is nothing to be made uneasy
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Florence, my dear Paul,' returned h
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stood, reviewing the new-comers, li
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uilding;' and slumber fell upon the
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'What's that?' inquired Paul. 'Neve
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uncle's child took on just as Maste
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Master Paul is not too fond of you.
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'Weeks off?' asked Paul. 'Yes, dear
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the case of Walter and Florence; an
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'What is it, Uncle? Customers?' 'Ay
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you wouldn't have had the whole wei
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'Is there anything the matter?' ask
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The captain was one of those timber
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Walter, who had by this time recove
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Old Sol returned the pressure of hi
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interruption to the current of his
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used to observe with chuckles at hi
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is Joseph:' but it's a great name,
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At length Mr. Dombey, bringing down
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een so bold as to come on my own ac
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anything to help him out of his dif
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'Lend it to his old uncle, eh?' ret
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gentleman's right hand in his own s
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and showed no symptoms of decline.
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consternation was occasioned in the
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'There is a great deal of nonsense-
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which he was to shine; and that Doc
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the stiffest possible cravats. It w
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'What is the matter, Mrs. Pipchin?'
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Dombey, introducing Mrs. Pipchin, w
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The Doctor might have called him th
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eceived the pang that wrung his pro
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Mrs. Blimber and Miss Blimber came
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mysterious, that he didn't know whe
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neck-cloths, which were very stiff
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and on its way to whom Paul present
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'Take some water, Johnson--dishes,
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tomorrow. In the meantime Mr. Feede
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never sleepy. 'Now, Dombey,' said M
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the lesson, when it was nearly all
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'But you can buy me the books, Susa
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the young gentlemen's nearest relat
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'--Don't you think you would rather
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stall of choice fruit at the corner
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wholly at his ease in that stately
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smile; 'humming musical recollectio
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of surprise, and taking up the pen
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Walter to close the door. 'John Car
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'It is no service to me,' said the
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I had seen direct cause, I would ha
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CHAPTER XIV Paul grows more and mor
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meant he was sorry they were going
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whether six three-fourths meant six
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had long had another purpose always
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'Mine, Sir?' said Paul. 'Your invit
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him, did both at once. How Mr. Toot
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went home, at his urgent solicitati
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ecovered its familiar aspect, and r
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In those days immediately before th
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instrument; and appeared to find th
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'Young gentlemen, ma'am; yes, ma'am
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Sir Barnet Skettles looked after Mr
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They all loved Florence! How could
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quite a noisy leave of Paul; waving
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CHAPTER XV Amazing Artfulness of Ca
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had produced so powerful an effect,
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'If I live and have my health,' sai
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'Turn again, Whittington,' muttered
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In spite of his respect for Captain
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eing at length attired to his own c
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as anything but the same artless, g
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towns within themselves, originatin
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oads, and that Miss Blimber went in
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apid river. He felt forced, sometim
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Paul looked at Florence with a flut
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'And who is this? Is this my old nu
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CHAPTER XVII Captain Cuttle does a
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MacStinger, and the possibility of
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As it was a contest of affection an
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'What name was it you said?' asked
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'What do you think now, Captain Cut
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Captain more teeth at one time, tha
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'Why, so long as I know that,' purs
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in the success of their innocent de
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women, Mr. Dombey passes through th
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proposes with a sigh, 'Amendment to
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plunged.' 'Dear aunt!' said Florenc
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It was a natural emotion, not to be
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the little bed. When any sharp sens
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And did that breast of Florence--Fl
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Florence gave him her hand, and sai
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looking down into the street, stari
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mistress's door, she said hurriedly
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In its standing open, even by so mu
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could never more come back. 'I will
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little stock of books and pictures,
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feeling of my heart, and I should h
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'Ye--Yes,' returned old Sol, rubbin
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'No, Walter,' returned Florence wit
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Florence at parting recapitulated t
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In spite of her request, he could n
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een at once happiness and remorse t
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'No, no, I couldn't indeed!' cried
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'Major,' returned Mr. Dombey, 'you
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'You mean Miss Tox,' retorted Mr. D
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nothing should induce him to submit
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of Mr. Towlinson, a pile of the Maj
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Dombey of what had passed between t
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He found no pleasure or of relief i
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divided with him the love and memor
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all day: so that when evening came
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there were anything in all the worl
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'Mr. Dombey is devoted to Nature, I
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with the very slightest inclination
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him,' said the Major. 'That's his h
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are not the cause of your ceasing t
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'My dearest Edith rallies me, you s
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'Mrs. Granger has been kind enough
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points of the game: who registered
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'As I?' exclaimed the Manager. 'As
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Carker, you would arrange to come d
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'it mightn't be best for me to tell
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'An't you a thief?' said Mr. Carker
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it, while Uncle Sol looked over him
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'If you have lied to me,' said Mr.
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their fists. The younger Toodles cl
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seen the gentleman away?' 'I don't
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Mr. Carker the Manager rode on at a
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The man would rather think she was,
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'Just another!' said Mr. Toots. 'Go
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CHAPTER XXIII Florence solitary, an
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wonder. For Florence lived alone in
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But there was one thought, scarcely
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'They know what they're about, if e
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acquiescent, they were soon equippe
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'Why how can I go and fetch him whe
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days. On these occasions, Mrs. MacS
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een cleaned, the walls had been cle
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low, do blow--overhaul the Catechis
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that terrible fire-ship; and the Ca
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'Bunsby,' said the Captain, strikin
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seemed to wish to recall that answe
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Cuttle, however, whose admiration o
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after dark, and look in through the
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young Barnet chafed, was the compan
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never done so from her cradle. She
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'I never will!' exclaimed the child
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Even in the response she made the o
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word to the pretty young lady?' The
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She thought that if she heard such
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'Nothing,' said Florence, 'but my--
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'When I woke this morning, Captain,
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elations with the parties, Captain
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terrible apprehension strengthened
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for the last time. The sense the Ca
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consciousness of his enormous crime
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CHAPTER XXVI Shadows of the Past an
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'Very great indeed,' said Mr. Dombe
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man, Gay, ever impressed me favoura
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Here the Major, under cover of the
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'Wretched man!' cried Mrs. Skewton,
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and I really don't see what is to b
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Kenilworth, to-morrow, to be preced
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the postscript. 'What you will, Mam
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friend, I ought rather to call him-
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'Fill this to the brim, you scoundr
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thought nothing about it; and Mr. D
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ground. But he found he was mistake
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Mr. Carker laughed, and turned upon
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enchanting coincidences that I ever
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'Oh!' smiled Carker, with humility,
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was ever on the formal head of Mr.
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Nevertheless, Mrs. Skewton was so c
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There happened to be in the foregro
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The dinner was the counterpart of y
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maid appeared, according to custom,
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him! When he came to view me--perha
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Florence gently looked at her, and
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fascination in Florence's thoughts.
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he would either christen it Poll or
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entering at the moment, Mr. Toots w
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Full of such thoughts, they turned
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'Florence,' said her father, puttin
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'Hush! Begin by thinking well of me
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Miss Tox sat down upon the widow-se
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'My Louisa,' said the mild Miss Tox
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if I venture to observe in referenc
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enough to consider me so; one so li
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proved remedies. And when, at lengt
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'In my own defence,' faltered Miss
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would have been a long time before
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Florence's neck with her arm. 'But
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'We have come to London now, my mot
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'And how,' said Mr. Skewton, on the
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her self-engrossment did not troubl
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into the dining-room. Florence and
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smell prevailing as if the ashes of
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'My dear Dombey,' said Cleopatra, '
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shaking, peevish figure of the moth
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'She is so much to me, that rather
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Hovering feebly round the church, a
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The men who play the bells have got
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Sir,'--and here he hits himself har
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'I am rejoiced, I am sure,' says Mr
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and Mr. Sownds the Beadle, group th
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The carriages are once more at the
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of the champagne in his cheeks. 'Up
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'Therefore,' says Cousin Feenix, 'I
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excitement came on so soon, appears
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CHAPTER XXXII The Wooden Midshipman
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'Yes, Captain,' said Rob. 'Very goo
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Captain Cuttle descended slowly to
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towards the little parlour, whither
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daybreak, he went over the side,' s
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said, though!' Mr. Toots, endeavour
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mind him; and presently turned roun
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jealous ears of the Chicken, who ob
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trouble you to be quick, if you ple
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Again the Captain laid his hand upo
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e such a miracle in point of fit as
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of the greater part qualify them to
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over to him in his shame and put he
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contriving, as she went, how to sav
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heaven's sake, don't suppose--' 'I
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'Whoever you may be, Sir,' answered
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Page 579 and 580: did not appear. 'There was a child
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Page 611 and 612: Mr. Dombey was a grave sight, being
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Page 617 and 618: dismissal, 'good night to you!' Mr.
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Page 629 and 630: 'Well, I am sure, Edith!' she would
Page 631 and 632: tumbled down before the mirror. The
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Page 663 and 664: Towards his first wife, Mr. Dombey,
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and otherwise expressionless gaze,
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choose but look, although he looked
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Flowers seeming to jog her memory,
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despair.' Cleopatra shuddered, and
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dropped down again, almost as if it
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'And treated undutifully enough, to
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through and through by the touch of
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is extremely inky; and his Lexicon
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'If you would allow me to--if you w
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his brains out. Mr. Feeder strongly
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arm--part of a figure of some tomb,
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There's a Mausoleum down at my plac
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transformed as to his outer man, an
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'Yes, Sir,' replied the abject Grin
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'You can afford to say so,' returne
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'But he is one of that family from
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which Mr. Dombey could not comprehe
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ound to do Mrs. Dombey the justice
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Dombey is aware of the probability
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Mr. Carker signified his understand
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triumph to see the glance droop and
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He again found Edith alone with Flo
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her widened the separation from her
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eing tired out when you was as broa
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held Florence rooted to the ground.
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Florence was more frightened than b
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'And I have dreamed,' she said, 'th
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staircase during the whole forenoon
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cried Susan Nipper, bursting into t
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leave a person like this at liberty
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that she might take an immediate an
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in recollection of the mines, was a
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Susan abandoned herself to her grie
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The Trusty Agent EDITH went out alo
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'To be addressed by Mrs. Dombey,' h
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could better foresee, for who has h
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this indication of a knowledge on h
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eturn to that subject; but the two
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'I am forgiven, and have explained
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one day, he was as unconscious of t
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injuries, 'that you was dead long a
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you, Misses Brown, can't you?' said
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'He and she?' 'What, Mr. and Mrs. D
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quietly back, caught the hand in he
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'And have you nothing, Spaniel,' sa
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me, and tampering with me, I am now
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and repellent at his side, and some
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and have every sense, conferred upo
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since and before, or only remembere
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'It is enough,' said Edith, after a
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frozen up in the bold, angry hardih
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in her eyes, when they were turned
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She rose up as if to leave the room
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was roused by what she said, into a
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'No, Mrs. Dombey,' he resumed. 'No,
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Florence had heard enough before qu
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'Mr. Dombey is in his own room, Mis
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night. She had just come from her m
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Ran out of his house. A moment, and
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passengers more numerous, the shops
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'Captain Cuttle! Is it you?' exclai
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In evidence of these convictions, D
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Florence to walk upstairs. If he co
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and his desire to get rid of Mr. To
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preparation for the interview he wa
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with his sleeve as he had done alre
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of pleasure in her face, when she s
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hours ago, instead of weeks or mont
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Florence answered 'Yes.' 'And Wal'r
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The Captain was not troubled with t
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At any other time the Captain would
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slow, gruff reader, and frequently
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is it? Dear Captain Cuttle, it turn
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child--aye, many a time!--and when
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taken out of his shirt-collar, to s
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'--Walter!' she exclaimed, surprise
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to Mrs. MacStinger, and kept prison
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even if he were dead! Some one woul
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packet, or ship letter, you underst
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would the guile and guilt of my hea
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Mr. Toots had discharged those word
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e a flattery to call a--a marble mo
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consequence at all.' 'What we thoug
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days; and in the meanwhile Florence
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He sat down opposite to her, lookin
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'Respect,' said Walter, in a low to
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eath I will breathe your name to Go
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Mr. Dombey and the World WHAT is th
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usy everywhere, with nothing else b
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in this very melancholy affair, and
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'To tell you my mind, Lucretia,' sa
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y the Chair, who says, Gentlemen, h
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incredulity. The old woman, without
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close at his elbow, and who, when h
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Mr. Dombey followed her with his ey
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'To Master, dear?' said the old wom
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'He don't care for me! He don't car
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you? Call yourselves females, too!'
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'And nothing to do, Rob?' 'Nothing
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unwilling Grinder. 'Well, Rob? Well
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The old woman held up her finger ag
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obliterate the word; and not conten
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milder enemy to encounter than the
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Sir.' John Carker broke the seal, w
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He covered his face with both his h
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you together. He will certainly hel
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the business and its owner were his
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made up my mind, at all events, not
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esults so plain and clear, that ref
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It was almost dark, and she was sit
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'What came of that, I needn't say.
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'I fear I must. Let my arm go!' 'No
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opened, and the light let in, trace
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addressed her in the French tongue
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Not a word. Not a look. Her eyes co
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'Why, if,' she said, surveying him
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'Your memory is so distinct,' he re
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The foam was on his lips; the wet s
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great confusion, he knew one of the
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He raised his wicked face, so full
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and rage and baffled villany. Occas
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noise?' 'Behind. Is it not another
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long, long road, gathered up, dull
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With this purpose he slunk into a r
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For now, indeed, it was no fancy. T
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'Not then, Sir. Two gentlemen came
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here my own dear dove with nobody t
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'Miss Dombey,' said Mr. Toots. 'To
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the present moment, in a most remar
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'Is as follers,' echoed the Captain
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anywhere--everywhere! Walter is poo
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eating of her own for him, all hars
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'Florence, love, the lading of our
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victim to the thraldom of Blimber,
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going on there, Mr. Toots was after
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comforter lifted themselves up agai
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'What you asked, Sol Gills?' repeat
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The colour all went out of the Capt
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Walter, vacated Florence's room, an
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'Why then, here's all about it, Mas
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e given away, as an extraordinary p
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frank, as hopeful, and more proud o
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little; but Captain Cuttle helps hi
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coping-stone of the railings, until
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that hour, rest in that belief."' S
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The world was very busy now, in soo
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would tell him that his son Josh wa
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'In mourning,' she said. The violon
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was silent, she asked him hurriedly
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you will; and that, from this time,
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harmonious blacksmiths, seemed to o
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Mrs. Wickam, standing at the foot o
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'My handsome gal--' Heaven, what a
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she sat down in her old seat, and s
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Mr. Towlinson and company are, at f
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Mr. Towlinson don't know either; no
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who is there again, and full to the
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staggering by the dozen together on
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heard of such obstinacy as his stay
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quellings of young children, sharp
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And the ruined man. How does he pas
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thoughts, or harsh is anger had bee
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little by little, more and more, as
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'Papa, love, I am a mother. I have
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Miss Tox addressed herself to a bul
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CHAPTER LX Chiefly Matrimonial THE
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The Doctor with his learned legs, a
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'You see,' said Mr. Toots, 'what I
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fixing his eyes on his wife, as if
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on the unhappy gentleman's account,
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was the widow of a Mr. Bokum, who h
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Sheer off! I'll cover your retreat.
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Toots and his wife had, in fact, ju
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ecall that night he had so recently
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Florence then remembered Cousin Fee
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eg to assure you that there is noth
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had, by this time, put her hand in
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am sure you wish that I should ask
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she would have begged him to say no
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'Not,' she replied, 'if they have t
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formed an uncommonly good opinion o
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That hazel-eyed bachelor, a bachelo
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more remarkable than the perfection
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uncomfortable sensation--does such
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