Little Paul: From the Dombey and Son of Charles DickensRedfield, 1860 - 175 páginas |
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answered Apothecary apple-faced arms asked baby Blim Brighton Brown Captain Cuttle chair CHARLES DICKENS Chick child coach Cornelia cried the boy dinner Doctor Blimber Dombey and Son Dombey's door eyes face Fanny father Feeder felt fire fond glancing Glubb Good-bye good-night hand happy head heart Instrument Maker Jemima kissed Lady Skettles little Florence little friend little Paul looking Louisa ma'am mamma Master Bitherstone midshipman Miss Blimber Miss Dombey Miss Florence Miss Floy Miss Nipper morning never night nurse old Sol old-fashioned papa Paul's Pipchin Polly pretty replied returned Paul Richard Whittington Richards round seemed Sir Barnet Skettles sister sitting Solomon Gills Spitfire stood Susan Nipper tears tell thank there's thought told Toodle took Toots turned uncle Sol up-stairs Wal'r walked Walter Walter Gay watch whisper Wickam woman young Gay young gentlemen
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Página 9 - Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships ; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather ; winds blew for or against their enterprises ; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them : AD had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for anno...
Página 167 - ... eyes. ^ When the sunbeams struck into his room through the rustling blinds, and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water, he knew that evening was coming on, and that the sky was red and beautiful. As the reflection died away, and a gloom went creeping up the wall, he watched it deepen, deepen, deepen into night.
Página 7 - DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
Página 16 - The Doctor gently brushed the scattered ringlets of the child, aside from the face and mouth of the mother. Alas how calm they lay there; how little breath there was to stir them! Thus, clinging fast to that slight spar within her arms, the mother drifted out upon the dark and unknown sea that rolls round all the world. CHAPTER II 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,
Página 174 - Papa," he whispered, looking in his face. "Remember Walter. I was fond of Walter!" The feeble hand waved in the air, as if it cried "good-bye !' ' to Walter once again. "Now lay me down," he said, "and, Floy, come close to me, and let me see you!
Página 171 - This was the beginning of his always saying in the morning that he was a great deal better, and that they were to tell his father so.
Página 167 - His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river, which he knew was flowing through the great city : and now he thought how black it was, and how deep it would look, reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all, how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea.
Página 113 - Blimber, he might consider himself sure of a pretty tight squeeze. The Doctor only undertook the charge of ten young gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work.
Página 169 - he would sometimes ask her. " It is bearing me away, I think ! " But Floy could always soothe and reassure him ; and it was his daily delight to make her lay her head down on his pillow, and take some rest. '• You are always watching me, Floy. Let me watch you, now ! " They would prop him up with cushions in a corner of his bed, and there he would recline the while she lay beside him : bending forward oftentimes to kiss her, and whispering to those who were near that she was tired, and how she...
Página 106 - Cuttle ; and to see the instrument-maker already reviving, and hopeful for the future, and feeling that the wooden midshipman was his own again. But without the least impeachment of his gratitude to Mr. Dombey, it must be confessed that Walter was humbled and cast down. It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished...