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'Cornelia, ' said the Doctor, 'Dombey will be your charge at first. Bring him on, Cornelia, bring him on. '

'Take him round the house, Cornelia, ' said the Doctor, 'and familiarise him with his new sphere. Go with that young lady, Dombey. '

Dombey didn't seem to be absolutely blinded by the light let in upon his intellect, but he made Miss Blimber a little bow.

Mr Dombey took it loosely in his own, and stood looking down upon her for a moment, as if he knew as little as the child, what to say or do.

When little Florence timidly presented herself, Mr Dombey stopped in his pacing up and down and looked towards her.

Thus arrested on the threshold as he was following his wife out of the room, Toodle returned and confronted Mr Dombey alone.

As Mr Dombey acknowledged the compliment with a bend of his head, the younger lady glancing at him, met his eyes.

'You know what I mean, do you, Dombey? ' inquired Miss Blimber, looking hard at him, through the spectacles.

Mr Dombey seemed, by his face, to think no worse of her for that.

To record of Mr Dombey that he was not in his way affected by this intelligence, would be to do him an injustice.

'How much do you know of your Latin Grammar, Dombey? ' said Miss Blimber.

'And yet, ' said Mr Dombey, 'you are two or three and thirty, I suppose? '

'I hope, Mr Dombey, ' said the Doctor, laying down his book, 'that the arrangements meet your approval. '

In the course of these remarks, delivered with great majesty and grandeur, Mr Dombey had truly revealed the secret feelings of his breast.

Mr Dombey turned his head away, and going slowly to the bookcase, and unlocking it, brought back a book to read.

The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.

'He has gone wrong, has he? ' said Mr Dombey, with a hard kind of satisfaction.

It brought a vague expression of dissatisfaction into Mr Dombey's face; but the door being opened, it was quickly gone.

'Certainly not, ' cried Mrs Chick, hastening to anticipate a refusal, 'I never thought it was. 'Mr Dombey looked at her impatiently.

'You want somebody to send to the West Indies, you were saying, ' observed Mr Dombey, hurriedly.

'For the child is hardly, ' said Mr Dombey, 'as stout as I could wish. '

Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance, to be prepossessing.

'And you'll try and learn a great deal here, and be a clever man, ' said Mr Dombey; 'won't you? '

Withers the Wan, at this period, handing round the tea, Mr Dombey again addressed himself to Edith.

No word or sound in answer. Mr Dombey's watch and Dr Parker Peps's watch seemed to be racing faster.

'You're Dombey's jockey, ain't you? ' said the first man.

and Mr Dombey further signified his pleasure that the ceremony, already long delayed, should take place without further postponement.

'You are good enough to rate it higher than it deserves, perhaps, Major, ' returned Mr Dombey.

Mr Dombey's eyes sought the ground, and a shade came over his face.

But what was a girl to Dombey and Son!

In Dickens's Dombey and Son, the railways which carve their way through London are sinister agents of destruction and death.

'I am the present unworthy representative of that name, Major, ' returned Mr Dombey.

'Doctor Blimber is at home, I believe? ' said Mr Dombey.

Mr Dombey was quite discomfited by the question.

'Sea-air, ' repeated Mr Dombey, looking at his sister.

'Everything, if you please, Doctor, ' returned Mr Dombey, firmly.

'I don't know why they should be, to my son, said Mr Dombey, coldly.

'Where's that young spark of Dombey's who's been watching the shipment of them goods? '

But Miss Tox is not a part of Mr Dombey's world.

'A stone! - Mr Dombey! ' faltered Walter.

'Good Heaven, Louisa! ' said Mr Dombey.

'Has Mr Dombey been there to-day? ' inquired the Uncle.

'Indeed, Miss Tox! ' said Mr Dombey.

Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr Dombey's life.

'So your name's Dombey, eh? ' said Mrs. Brown.

'Then why don't you learn? ' asked Mr Dombey.

Mr Dombey said it was very true, very true.

Mr Dombey glanced at the pocket-handkerchief which his sister applied to her eyes, and resumed

Mr Dombey's servants are becoming, at the same time, quite dissipated, and unfit for other service.

'They are excellent, Sir, ' said Mr Dombey.

'I don't want anything, thank you, ' was the timid answer. 'Except to know the way to Dombey and Son's. '

'You have an accurate memory of your own, ' said Mr Dombey.

'Call him back, ' said Mr Dombey.

'And you'll soon be grown up now! ' said Mr Dombey.

'I'm in Dombey's House, Mr Clark, ' returned the boy.

Everything that is said and done about it, except by Mr Dombey, is done in chorus.

He will be christened Paul, my - Mrs Dombey - of course.

'You respect nobody, Carker, I think, ' said Mr Dombey.

'Who is Mrs Pipchin, Louisa? ' asked Mr Dombey; aghast at this familiar introduction of a name he had never heard before.

'And it's very expensive, ' added Mr Dombey.

'I am not quite decided, ' returned Mr Dombey. 'I think not. He is delicate. '

'Can you read? ' asked Mr Dombey.

She feigned to be dandling the child as the servant retired on this errand, but she thought that she saw Mr Dombey's colour changed;

How can one expect she should, when she is so very unlike a Dombey?

'You can leave the room, Sir! ' said Mr Dombey, haughtily.

'Do you hear, Paul? ' added Mr Dombey; Paul being silent.

'You have a son, I believe? ' said Mr Dombey.

'How old are you, Dombey? ' said Miss Blimber.

'Who? ' cried Mr Dombey. 'What does she mean? What is this? '

Additional reporting by Daniel Dombey in Washington