Dombey and Son, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1859 |
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Alice an't answered asked Bagstock beauty better Blimber brother Bunsby Captain Cuttle Captain Gills Carker chair Chick Chicken child Chowley Cleopatra Cousin Feenix dark daughter dear dear mama Dombey and Son Dombey's door Edith eyes face father Feeder feeling friend Dombey gentleman glance gone hand happy Harriet head hear heart heerd honor hope knew lady lass light looked MacStinger madam mama marriage Midshipman Miff mind Miss Dombey Miss Floy Miss Nipper Miss Tox Misses Brown morning mother never night observed old Sol old woman parlor Perch Pipchin Polly proud replied returned Rob the Grinder round shaking sitting Skewton smile Sol Gills speak stopped sure Susan Nipper tears tell thing thought Toodle took Toots Toots's Towlinson turned voice Wal'r Walter Walter Gay watch wife woice word young
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Page 9 - N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 3 - The pastry-cook is hard at work in the funereal room in Brook Street, and the very tall young men are busy looking on. One of the very tall young men already smells of sherry, and his eyes have a tendency to become fixed in his head, and to stare at objects without seeing them. The very tall young man is conscious of this failing in himself ; and informs his comrade that it's his
Page 24 - With that, Mr Toots repairing to the shop-door, sent a peculiar whistle into the night, which produced a stoical gentleman in a shaggy white great-coat and a flat-brimmed hat, with very short 540 hair, a broken nose, and a considerable tract of bare and sterile country behind each ear. ' Sit down, Chicken,
Page 220 - Those who study the physical sciences, and bring them to bear upon the health of Man, tell us that if the noxious particles that rise from vitiated air were palpable to the sight, we should see them lowering in a dense black cloud above such haunts, and rolling slowly on to corrupt the better portions of a town.
Page 221 - ... eternity, would then apply themselves, like creatures of one common origin, owing one duty to the Father of one family, and tending to one common end, to make the world a better place ! Not the less bright and blest would that day be for rousing some who never have looked out upon the world of human life around them, to a knowledge of their own relation to it, and for making them acquainted with a perversion of nature in their own contracted sympathies and estimates; as great, and yet as natural...
Page 405 - Harriet complied, and read; — read the eternal book for all the weary and the heavy-laden; for all the wretched, fallen, and neglected of this earth; — read the blessed history in which the blind, lame, palsied beggar, the criminal, the woman stained with shame, the shunned of all our dainty clay...
Page 131 - He felt them sharply, in the solitude of his old rooms ; whither he now began often to retire again, and pass long solitary hours. It seemed his fate to be ever proud and powerful ; ever humbled and powerless where he would be most strong. Who seemed fated to work out that doom ? Who ? Who was it who could win his wife as she had won his boy!
Page 220 - When we shall gather grapes from thorns, and figs from thistles ; when fields of grain shall spring up from the offal in the byways of our wicked cities, and roses bloom in the fat churchyards that they cherish, then we may look for natural humanity, and find it growing from such seed.