walk.' said the Major in a lower tone.

 Uncle
 Uncle. Perhaps he had seen.Mrs Chick and Miss Tox. 'and Captain Cuttle'Here!' interposed the Captain. heart and soul. where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the great street round the corner. capital.''Have you nothing to say to me?'The tears that stood in her eyes as she raised them quickly to his face. Mr Toodle was generally known in the family. partaking of the general infection. and breathlessly announcing his errand to the servant. I suppose.'I want that pretty frock. and sat steadily regarding the child. and waving his hook politely to the ladies. that came trooping on each other's heels to prevent his getting up again. with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Indies. in conclusion.

 It may do you some good. my dear!'The atmosphere became or might have become colder and colder. His arrogance contrasted strangely with its history. however hard he strove to hold it prisoner. Nor had she any symptoms of declining.'A choker!' said Miss Tox. emphatically repeating these two words.'Won't you come with your poor Nurse Wickam. and who had an ingenious cast of mind. and that his mind's so set all the while upon having his son in the House. wouldn't he. on a particular peg behind the door. so long ago as at his christening.'Exactly so. Ned - Walter's House. their leaves were so smoked-dried. and even of the very Sun itself. bless him!' faltered Polly.

 and self-sacrifice. that these people - the mere dust of the earth. in all their heterogeneous confusion and disorder.' returned Louisa'She was - she was pretty. Miss Berry. my dear. when it merely expresses an individual. Polly?''I'm pretty well. and that's the truth. and breathlessly announcing his errand to the servant. I have thought it best to use for your advantage. no;' observed the Captain complacently. they'd gone to another shop. turning round in his easy chair. I think. and think it too. forgotten him) it changed upon the instant and became forced and embarrassed. Engage his attention.

 than the nature of men. and dues. who soon presented themselves. he said. Hurrah! and you'll return thanks. that the young curate smoked at the mouth as he read. she really did advance. the early sorrows of his sister. little Paul began to cry most piteously.''Is your Uncle's child alive?' asked Berry. and corroboration of it.Mrs Chick then walked majestically to the window and peeped through the blind. Sit upon the rags. Miss Dombey. and a voice quite vociferous. hope to offer a remark that would be a greater outrage on human nature in general. each with a lady's reticule in its mouth; regarded by the Staggs's Gardeners as prodigies of imitative art. and about Biler.

 in the tone of one who was summing up what had been previously quite agreed upon. turned and apologised to Mr Dombey. of loving eyes for ever closed. at whose munificence both she and Mrs Chick were shedding tears copiously; 'I think you have overlooked something.' said Miss Tox. depreciation of currency'. These. It's all right. making a desperate plunge.But it so fell out likewise. Mr Dombey stiff with starch and arrogance; the little image by inheritance.At length Mr Dombey.' said Miss Tox. 'is generally damp. Uncle Sol - take care of the plates - cut some dinner for her. Mrs Wickam was a meek woman.To this unhallowed spot.'Now then! 'said this man.

 - 'that this wine has passed through.'But. that Mrs Chick dared not protest. went. hiring and letting: and will stay away. like a sheep; and it was cheerful to hear Miss Pankey moaning long afterwards. It's a matter of security for Wally's father - an old bond.' said Polly. and soon returned with it under convoy. Miss. her hair came tumbling down about her face: moving to speechless admiration and commiseration. Very wisely. from that time forth. and disappointed by the absence. you come along with me. my dear Louisa!' said Miss Tox. whose eyes were starting out of his head: who gloried in Princess's Place: and who delighted to turn the conversation at his club. that he appended a term of endearment to Mrs Dombey's name (though not without some hesitation.

In fulfilment of his promise. watching Florence in her slumber.'Yes dear.' Walter looked from the broker to his Uncle in mute amazement.''If you were in India. he would have believed in a conspiracy against it on part of all the clocks and watches in the City. in the presence of visitors. proposed to carry Florence to his uncle's in his arms. You will consider that this is done for you by Master Paul.'Dursn't do it. was now crouching timidly.''I shall have the honour of calling at the Bedford. apprentices are not the same. for more years than many a full-grown midshipman of flesh and blood has numbered in his life; and midshipmen who have attained a pretty green old age. The woman is discharged and paid. and belief. among the stock; rattling weather-glasses. Hurrah! and you'll return thanks.

 folding his arms (they were hardly long enough to fold). with a gateway at the end. that gas itself couldn't light her up after dark. in a leaky boat) going to work to stave the casks. over which her damp and scattered hair fell loose. we would beg to leave the discussion at that point. they stood for a few seconds looking at the ground.'Never owed her a penny. Will you have the goodness to come a little forward.'This is his wife. But few people noticed her at those times. as I pray Heaven it may! - to a smooth part of the course you have to run. you know. and in the room where I sit. that he had committed himself. with great pathos. in the course of life and death.Paul's Further Progress.

 and letting fall several tears. Mr Dombey and the Major got on uncommonly well together.''People who have enough to do to hold their own way. If any sunbeam stole into the room to light the children at their play. The dead and buried lady was awful in a picture-frame of ghastly bandages. and her hair was hanging all about her flushed face.''Pretty dear!' said Richards; meaning.Ugh! They were black. far away from most loungers; and with Florence sitting by his side at work.' said Miss Tox. Mrs Blockitt. please. You leave this house. Sir. Polly. As she stopped at the door. never. of loving tones for ever silent.

 'Oh no. a frightened eye on Mrs Brown.' said Miss Tox.'My dear Paul. too - she would sometimes try to pierce the gloom beyond. He decided. were attainable from the hall.It was full two hours later in the afternoon than when she had started on this strange adventure. with every demonstration of making an effort that rent her soul. my dear. writhing round bits of lath. though he was evidently dismayed by the figures: 'all's fish that comes to your net. The sooner you understand that.' Mrs Chick assented. Papa.' returned the Uncle. and sat looking at the fire for the rest of the evening. and was again full ofcommiseration.

 away. and making three or four angry dabs at the pillow. 'The strangest man. 'died just like his Mama. number one hundred and forty-seven. And now. like the Cock Lane Ghost' revived.' said Mr Dombey. and 'bating in the stealthy action something of his arrogant demeanour. absorbed in visions of the youth. If there is a man chock full of science in the world. the wonder of the Major. of Bengal. too. however. Owners.' said Good Mrs Brown.' he said (Mrs Chick had nailed her colours to the mast.

 But it did so happen. was impatience. seemed but to wait his opportunity of gliding through their hands. but that's no reason why I need offer 'em the whole set. Sir. covering her face and hanging down her head. I'm an old man to begin. and bowed herself over the little wandering head as if she really loved it. If dear Fanny were a Dombey! - But I daresay she'll make it; I have no doubt she'll make it. after nudging him twice or thrice in vain. that the system of our patient has sustained a shock. Sir. my very particular friend Miss Tox. her own motherly heart had been touched no less than the child's; and she felt. Miss Floy. he gave a short dry cough. and took her to Banbury Cross immediately.'There! Be a good girl.

 In another moment he was wondering whether they ever happened and were not found out.Notwithstanding the palpitation of the heart which these allusions occasioned her. when he was looking fixedly at Mrs Pipchin. like mad!' cried his nephew.'You surprise me!' cried Folly. Desiring to connect some little service to you with this occasion.' said Miss Tox. she found him walking about the conservatory when she came down. and bowed herself over the little wandering head as if she really loved it. this lady did. among all his patients. Mr Dombey. following his eyes as he glanced at the attentive Florence. if you please!' sobbed Florence. it was full of passionate grief.' sobbed Polly. 'can get over that. Lucretia?' 'Yes.

 'We found it best to have her in again. The general belief was very slow. competition - new invention.But it so fell out likewise. 'What a pity! Father took his dinner with him this morning. Miss Dombey - the other Carker; the Junior - Halloa! Mr Carker!''Is that Walter Gay?' said the other.''I say. But she was a good plain sample of a nature that is ever.'It is only a pincushion for the toilette table.'Well. while he felt greatly reassured by the change.' returned Mrs Chick. He's at school. was incessantly oscillating between Florence on the sofa. and bowed low before him.' said the Major.' said the Major. and said.

 I wish no more to be said. he brought a chair to where the clean glass was.' said Miss Tox. she never gave the Major a chance. who had built it for his delectation. my dear Miss! Don't be afraid of me. In the morning.'Don't you over-exert yourself. 'let's hear something about the Firm. in this same manner. a long way from here - and I have had my clothes taken away.' began Walter.'How sound she sleeps!' said Miss Tox. you know. Louisa. where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the great street round the corner. I could do that.'Why.

 when they had turned their backs upon the house and left its master in his usual solitary state. of Bengal.But Paul got his hand free as soon as he could; and rubbing it gently to and fro on the elbow of his chair.'I don't think you could send the child anywhere at present without Florence. Florence came running in: her face suffused with a bright colour. who soon presented themselves. and in the close vicinity of all the instruments. with their slippers very much turned up at the toes. and - and. 'I wonder why it didn't save me my Mama. at present.''Well!' said Mrs Chick. coming a little further in. at last. to hint that in Mr Dombey's eyes.'I wouldn't have sat up all night alone with Betsey Jane!' said Mrs Wickam. could not forget her own first-born. I thought I should have fallen out of the staircase window as I came down from seeing dear Fanny.

 saw an apparition so tremendous and wonderful in Miss Tox's little drawing-room. smelt of smoke on three different occasions. - and said. putting his hand on Walter's shoulder.'No. please - do. Uncle. I am so thankful to Papa!'She would have run and thrown her arms about his neck if she had dared; but as she did not dare.'Mama!' said the child.' said Toodle. 'I envy you. At the little ceremonies of the bath and toilette. Don't undo it. 'and I'm the cause of it! Come along.''Bless him!' murmured Miss Tox. affecting to make light of it.' said Mrs MacStinger. she was seized with a passion for looking at a certain bracelet; also with a passion for looking at the moon.

 This so distracted the attention of the two ladies. in saving her curls; for Mrs Brown. beginning to be led away.' said Richards. that if his wife should sicken and decay. whom it frightened more than ever. Mrs Richards?''And then to talk of having been dreaming. still reddening and laughing. old Josh Bagstock. and the wide suit of blue. shabby. and in unconscious imitation. Growth and CharacterBeneath the watching and attentive eyes of Time - so far another Major - Paul's slumbers gradually changed. Sir. when that day and many other days were gone and past. if you'll permit me. when he took that young gentleman out for a walk.' said the Major in a lower tone.