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bookcollections (8)in #jemima • 21 hours ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #10/471
‘How do you do, Polly?’ ‘I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,’ said Polly. By way of bringing her out dexterously, Miss Tox had made the inquiry as in condescension to an old…
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bookcollections (8)in #dombey • 5 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #9/471
Meanwhile, of course, the child is—’ ‘Going to the Devil,’ said Mr Chick, thoughtfully, ‘to be sure.’ Admonished, however, that he had committed himself, by the indignation…
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bookcollections (8)in #fanny • 18 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #8/471
Chapter 2. 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,’ said…
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bookcollections (8)in #fanny • 27 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #7/471
‘Im-mense!’ ‘But his deportment, my dear Louisa!’ said Miss Tox. ‘His presence! His dignity! No portrait that I have ever seen of anyone has been half so replete with those…
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bookcollections (8)in #miss • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #6/471
These and other appearances of a similar nature, had served to propagate the opinion, that Miss Tox was a lady of what is called a limited independence, which she turned to the…
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bookcollections (8)in #dombey • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #5/471
He’s quite a Dombey!’ ‘Well, well!’ returned her brother—for Mr Dombey was her brother—‘I think he is like the family. Don’t agitate yourself, Louisa.’ ‘It’s very foolish of…
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bookcollections (8)in #patients • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #4/471
Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great families, was walking up and down the drawing-room with…
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bookcollections (8)in #dombey • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #3/471
That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a House, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex. That…
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bookcollections (8)in #dombey • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #2/471
Chapter 1. Dombey and Son Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead…
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bookcollections (8)in #farewell • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #1/471
Preface I cannot forego my usual opportunity of saying farewell to my readers in this greeting-place, though I have only to acknowledge the unbounded warmth and…
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