A walk in a work-houseP.F. Collier & Son, 1911 - English fiction |
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arms asked Bitherstone brother Bunsby Captain Cuttle Carker the Manager Charles Dickens Chick child Cleopatra cried dear Dickens Doctor Blimber Dombey and Son Dombey's door Edith ence eyes face father Feeder Florence gentleman glance gone hand head heard heart honour hope inquired knew Lady Skettles little Paul looked Louisa Ma'am MacStinger Major Bagstock midshipman mind Miss Blimber Miss Dombey Miss Floy Miss Nipper Miss Tox morning mother never night observed old Sol papa Paul's Perch perhaps Pipchin Polly poor replied returned Richard Whittington Richards round seemed Sir Barnet sister sitting Skewton smile Solomon Gills stairs stood street sure Susan Nipper tears tell there's thing thought tion to-morrow Toodle took Toots Towlinson Tox's turned Uncle Sol voice Wal'r walked Walter Walter Gay Wickam window woman words young gentlemen
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Page xv - I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this side idolatry) as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature: had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 234 - ... The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion ! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death ! Oh thank GOD, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, of Immortality ! And look upon us, angels of young children, with regards not quite estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean...
Page xv - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Page 229 - ... about the candle, and wait patiently for day. His only trouble was, the swift and rapid river. He felt forced, sometimes, to try to stop it - to stem it with his childish hands or choke its way with sand — and when he saw it coming on, resistless, he cried out!
Page 208 - Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure You ! " This Paul heard him repeat to four young ladies in succession.
Page 234 - Mamma is like you, Floy. I know her by the face ! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go !" The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stTrred in the room.
Page 232 - said the child, regarding with a radiant smile, a figure coming in. Yes, yes. No other stranger would have shed those tears at sight of him, and called him her dear boy, her pretty boy. her own poor blighted child. No other woman would have stooped down by his bed, and taken up his wasted hand, and put it to her lips and breast, as one who had some right to fondle it. No other woman would have so forgotten everybody there but him and Floy, and been so full of tenderness and pity. "Floy! this is...
Page 18 - It is not at all in this bargain that you need become attached to my child, or that my child need become attached to you. I don't expect or desire anything of the kind. Quite the reverse. When you go away from here, you will have concluded what is a mere matter of bargain and sale, hiring and letting; and you will stay away. The child will cease to remember you; and you will cease, if you please, to remember the child.
Page 151 - Shall we make a man of him ? " "Do you hear, Paul?" added Mr. Dombey; Paul being silent. " Shall we make a man of him ?
Page 231 - But the face so altered to his thinking, thrilled while he gazed, as if it were in pain; and before he could reach out both his hands to take it between them, and draw it towards him, the figure turned away quickly from the little bed, and went out at the door.