From the glimpses she caught of Mr Dombey at these times, sitting in the dark distance, looking out towards the infant from among the dark heavy furniture—the house had been inhabited for years by his

Chapter 3. In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department The funeral of the deceased lady having been ‘performed’ to the entire satisfaction of the undertaker, as

Whether a man so situated would be able to pluck away the result of so many years of usage, confidence, and belief, from the impostor, and endow a stranger with it? But it was idle speculating thus. It

One of my little boys is a going to learn me, when he’s old enough, and been to school himself.’ ‘Well,’ said Mr Dombey, after looking at him attentively, and with no great favour, as he stood gazing round

‘My good woman,’ said Mr Dombey, turning round in his easy chair, as one piece, and not as a man with limbs and joints, ‘I understand you are poor, and wish to earn money by nursing the little boy, my

‘How do you do, Polly?’ ‘I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,’ said Polly. By way of bringing her out dexterously, Miss Tox had made the inquiry as in condescension to an old acquaintance whom she hadn’t

Meanwhile, of course, the child is—’ ‘Going to the Devil,’ said Mr Chick, thoughtfully, ‘to be sure.’ Admonished, however, that he had committed himself, by the indignation expressed in Mrs Chick’s countenance

Chapter 2. In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families. I shall never cease to congratulate myself,’ said Mrs Chick,’ on having said, when

‘Im-mense!’ ‘But his deportment, my dear Louisa!’ said Miss Tox. ‘His presence! His dignity! No portrait that I have ever seen of anyone has been half so replete with those qualities. Something so stately,

These and other appearances of a similar nature, had served to propagate the opinion, that Miss Tox was a lady of what is called a limited independence, which she turned to the best account. Possibly her

He’s quite a Dombey!’ ‘Well, well!’ returned her brother—for Mr Dombey was her brother—‘I think he is like the family. Don’t agitate yourself, Louisa.’ ‘It’s very foolish of me,’ said Louisa, sitting down,

Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great families, was walking up and down the drawing-room with his hands behind him, to

That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a House, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex. That Mrs Dombey had entered on

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