Dombey and Son

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Oh no cried Mrs. Chick, benignantly. Still, resumed Miss Tox, she naturally must be into. rested in her young charge, and must consider it a privilege to see a little cherub closely connected with the superior classes, gradually unfolding itself from day to day at one common fountain. Is it not so, Louisa...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Oh no cried Mrs. Chick, benignantly. Still, resumed Miss Tox, she naturally must be into. rested in her young charge, and must consider it a privilege to see a little cherub closely connected with the superior classes, gradually unfolding itself from day to day at one common fountain. Is it not so, Louisa ? Most undoubtedly said Mrs. Chick. You see, ray lov e, she's already quite contented and comfortable, and mean? (o say good-bye to her sister Jemima and her little pets, and ier good honest husband, with a light heart and a smile; don't she, my dear Oh yes cried Miss Tox. To be sure she does Notwithstanding which, however, poor Polly embraced them all round in great distress, and finally ran away to avoid any more particular leave-taking between herself and the children. But the stratagem hardly succeeded as well as it deserved; for the smallest boy but one divining her intent, immediately began swarming up-stairs after her?if that word of doubtful etymology be admissible?on his arms and legs; while the eldest (known in the family by the name of Bilerin remembrance of the steam-engine) beat a demoniacal tattoo with his boots, expressive of grief; in which he was joined by the rest of the family. A quantity of oranges and halfpence, thrust indiscriminately on each young Toodle, checked the first violence of their regret, and the family were speedily tran sported to their own home, by means of the hackney-coach kept in waiting for that purpose. The children, under the guardianship of Jemima, blocked up the window, and dropped out oranges and halfpence all the way along. Mr. Toodle himself preferred to ride behind among the spikes, as being the mode of conveyance to which he was best accustomed. CHAPTER III. In -which Mr. Dombey, as a...