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| Charles Dickens "Dombey and Son" |
| Joey Bagstock. |
| "Captain Cuttle and the Little Midshipman." |
| "A gentleman in a wide suit of blue, with a hook instead of a hand attached to his thick right wrist; very bushy black eye-brows; and a thick stick in his left hand, covered all over (like his nose) with knobs." |
| Mr Dombey. |
| Another impression of Mr Toots. |
| Mr Toots and the Chicken - "Go in and win !". |
| "If you had a few more of the Bagstock breed amongst you, you'd be none the worse for it." The Major. |
| This was Dickens' seventh novel. It was his first with his new publishers, Bradbury and Evans, and appeared in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848. For more about this novel, follow this link. |
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| "Florence sat down at night to track Paul's footsteps through the thorny ways of learning ; and being possessed of a naturally quick and sound capacity, and taught by that most wonderful of masters, Love, it was not long before she gained upon Paul's beefs, and taught and passed him." |
| "The expatriated native.......coming straight upstairs, with a polite enquiry touching Miss Fox's health.....had accidentally arrived in the very nick of time to catch the delicate burden in his arms." |
