{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "The House will once again, Mrs Dombey, be not only in name but in fact Dombey and Son; Dom-bey and Son! Mrs Dombey, my—my dear. He will be christened Paul, my—Mrs Dombey—of course.", "pos": 4644}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey", "text": "Of course,", "pos": 5358}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "His father’s name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather’s! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior, but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn’t enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same. Dombey and Son,", "pos": 5448}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Florence, you may go and look at your pretty brother, if you like, I daresay. Don’t touch him! Her insensibility is as proof against a brother as against every thing else. Oh Lord bless me! A very ill-advised and feverish proceeding this, I am sure. Please to ring there for Miss Florence’s nurse. Really the person should be more care- Wait! I—had better ask Doctor Peps if he’ll have the goodness to step upstairs again perhaps. I’ll go down. I’ll go down. I needn’t beg you, to take particular care of this young gentleman, Mrs ——", "pos": 9373}
{"speaker": "nurse", "text": "Blockitt, Sir?", "pos": 10638}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Of this young gentleman, Mrs Blockitt.", "pos": 10807}
{"speaker": "nurse", "text": "No, Sir, indeed. I remember when Miss Florence was born—", "pos": 10848}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Ay, ay, ay. Miss Florence was all very well, but this is another matter. This young gentleman has to accomplish a destiny. A destiny, little fellow!", "pos": 10907}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "Well, Sir, do you find that your dear lady is at all roused by your visit?", "pos": 11837}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "Stimulated as it were?", "pos": 12018}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It would be a satisfaction to him, if Doctor Parker Peps would walk upstairs again.", "pos": 12351}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "Good! We must not disguise from you, Sir, that there is a want of power in Her Grace the Duchess—I beg your pardon; I confound names; I should say, in your amiable lady. That there is a certain degree of languor, and a general absence of elasticity, which we would rather—not—", "pos": 12436}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "See,", "pos": 12742}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "Quite so, which we would rather not see. It would appear that the system of Lady Cankaby—excuse me: I should say of Mrs Dombey: I confuse the names of cases—", "pos": 12822}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "So very numerous, can’t be expected I’m sure—quite wonderful if otherwise—Doctor Parker Peps’s West-End practice—", "pos": 13009}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "Thank you, quite so. It would appear, I was observing, that the system of our patient has sustained a shock, from which it can only hope to rally by a great and strong—", "pos": 13160}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "And vigorous,", "pos": 13350}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "Quite so, and vigorous effort. Mr Pilkins here, who from his position of medical adviser in this family—no one better qualified to fill that position, I am sure.", "pos": 13400}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "Oh! 'Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley!'", "pos": 13586}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "You are good enough, to say so. Mr Pilkins who, from his position, is best acquainted with the patient’s constitution in its normal state (an acquaintance very valuable to us in forming our opinions in these occasions), is of opinion, with me, that Nature must be called upon to make a vigorous effort in this instance; and that if our interesting friend the Countess of Dombey—I beg your pardon; Mrs Dombey—should not be—", "pos": 13662}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "Able,", "pos": 14118}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "To make,", "pos": 14156}
{"speaker": "family practitioner", "text": "That effort,", "pos": 14192}
{"speaker": "Doctor Parker Peps", "text": "Successfully. Then, a crisis might arise, which we should both sincerely deplore.", "pos": 14237}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul! He’s quite a Dombey!", "pos": 15727}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well, well! I think he is like the family. Don’t agitate yourself, Louisa.", "pos": 15764}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "It’s very foolish of me, but he’s—he’s such a perfect Dombey! It’s so extraordinary, as to be perfectly ridiculous. So completely our family. I never saw anything like it in my life!", "pos": 15894}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "But what is this about Fanny, herself? How is Fanny?", "pos": 16247}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul, it’s nothing whatever. Take my word, it’s nothing whatever. There is exhaustion, certainly, but nothing like what I underwent myself, either with George or Frederick. An effort is necessary. That’s all. If dear Fanny were a Dombey!—But I daresay she’ll make it; I have no doubt she’ll make it. Knowing it to be required of her, as a duty, of course she’ll make it. My dear Paul, it’s very weak and silly of me, I know, to be so trembly and shaky from head to foot; but I am so very queer that I must ask you for a glass of wine and a morsel of that cake. I shall not drink my love to you, Paul. I shall drink to the little Dombey. Good gracious me!—it’s the most astonishing thing I ever knew in all my days, he’s such a perfect Dombey. I know it’s very weak and silly of me, to be so trembly and shaky from head to foot, and to allow my feelings so completely to get the better of me, but I cannot help it. I thought I should have fallen out of the staircase window as I came down from seeing dear Fanny, and that tiddy ickle sing.", "pos": 16320}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mrs Chick,", "pos": 17766}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "how are you now, my dear friend? My dear Paul, it’s Miss Tox. The kindest creature! I never could have got here without her! Miss Tox, my brother Mr Dombey. Paul, my dear, my very particular friend Miss Tox.", "pos": 17819}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I am sure, that to have the honour of being presented to Mr Dombey is a distinction which I have long sought, but very little expected at the present moment. My dear Mrs Chick—may I say Louisa!", "pos": 20415}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "God bless you!", "pos": 20781}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa then, my sweet friend, how are you now?", "pos": 20798}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Better. Take some wine. You have been almost as anxious as I have been, and must want it, I am sure. My dear Paul, what have you been doing! Miss Tox, Paul, knowing how much I have been interested in the anticipation of the event of today, and how trembly and shaky I have been from head to foot in expectation of it, has been working at a little gift for Fanny, which I promised to present. Miss Tox is ingenuity itself.", "pos": 20872}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa. Don’t say so.", "pos": 21592}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "It is only a pincushion for the toilette table, Paul, one of those trifles which are insignificant to your sex in general, as it’s very natural they should be—we have no business to expect they should be otherwise—but to which we attach some interest.", "pos": 21641}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Miss Tox is very good,", "pos": 21917}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "And I do say, and will say, and must say, that Miss Tox has very prettily adapted the sentiment to the occasion. I call ‘Welcome little Dombey’ Poetry, myself!", "pos": 21958}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Is that the device?", "pos": 22228}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "That is the device,", "pos": 22272}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "But do me the justice to remember, my dear Louisa, that nothing but the—I have some difficulty in expressing myself—the dubiousness of the result would have induced me to take so great a liberty: ‘Welcome, Master Dombey,’ would have been much more congenial to my feelings, as I am sure you know. But the uncertainty attendant on angelic strangers, will, I hope, excuse what must otherwise appear an unwarrantable familiarity.", "pos": 22311}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I look at you, I declare, you do so remind me of that dear baby upstairs. Well! after this, I forgive Fanny everything!", "pos": 23166}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I knew you would admire my brother. I told you so beforehand, my dear. And as to his property, my dear!", "pos": 24129}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Ah! Im-mense! But his deportment, my dear Louisa! His presence! His dignity! No portrait that I have ever seen of anyone has been half so replete with those qualities. Something so stately, you know: so uncompromising: so very wide across the chest: so upright! A pecuniary Duke of York, my love, and nothing short of it! That’s what I should designate him.", "pos": 24296}
{"speaker": "His sister", "text": "Why, my dear Paul! you look quite pale! There’s nothing the matter?", "pos": 24728}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am sorry to say, Louisa, that they tell me that Fanny—", "pos": 24838}
{"speaker": "His sister", "text": "Now, my dear Paul, don’t believe it. Do not allow yourself to receive a turn unnecessarily. Remember of what importance you are to society, and do not allow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsiderately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.", "pos": 24897}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I hope I know, Louisa, how to bear myself before the world.", "pos": 25219}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nobody better, my dear Paul. Nobody half so well. They would be ignorant and base indeed who doubted it.", "pos": 25308}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Ignorant and base indeed!", "pos": 25415}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "But, if you have any reliance on my experience, Paul, you may rest assured that there is nothing wanting but an effort on Fanny’s part. And that effort, she must be encouraged, and really, if necessary, urged to make. Now, my dear Paul, come upstairs with me.", "pos": 25467}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "Restless without the little girl. We found it best to have her in again.", "pos": 26376}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Can nothing be done?", "pos": 26485}
{"speaker": "Doctor", "text": "We can do no more.", "pos": 26552}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Fanny! Fanny! Fanny, my dear, here’s Mr Dombey come to see you. Won’t you speak to him? They want to lay your little boy—the baby, Fanny, you know; you have hardly seen him yet, I think—in bed; but they can’t till you rouse yourself a little. Don’t you think it’s time you roused yourself a little? Eh? Eh? what was it you said, Fanny? I didn’t hear you.", "pos": 27178}
{"speaker": "Sister-in-law", "text": "Now, really, Fanny my dear. I shall have to be quite cross with you, if you don’t rouse yourself. It’s necessary for you to make an effort, and perhaps a very great and painful effort which you are not disposed to make; but this is a world of effort you know, Fanny, and we must never yield, when so much depends upon us. Come! Try! I must really scold you if you don’t!", "pos": 27971}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Fanny! Only look at me. Only open your eyes to show me that you hear and understand me; will you? Good Heaven, gentlemen, what is to be done!", "pos": 28576}
{"speaker": "Child", "text": "Mama! Mama! Oh dear Mama! oh dear Mama!", "pos": 29109}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I shall never cease to congratulate myself, on having said, when I little thought what was in store for us,—really as if I was inspired by something,—that I forgave poor dear Fanny everything. Whatever happens, that must always be a comfort to me!", "pos": 29859}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "Don’t you over-exert yourself, Loo, or you’ll be laid up with spasms, I see. Right tol loor rul! Bless my soul, I forgot! We’re here one day and gone the next!", "pos": 30630}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "I am sure. I hope this heart-rending occurrence will be a warning to all of us, to accustom ourselves to rouse ourselves, and to make efforts in time where they’re required of us. There’s a moral in everything, if we would only avail ourselves of it. It will be our own faults if we lose sight of this one.", "pos": 30916}
{"speaker": "His helpmate", "text": "Which might be better improved, I should think, Mr C., than by the introduction, either of the college hornpipe, or the equally unmeaning and unfeeling remark of rump-te-iddity, bow-wow-wow!", "pos": 31517}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "Merely habit, my dear,", "pos": 31872}
{"speaker": "His wife", "text": "Nonsense! Habit! If you’re a rational being, don’t make such ridiculous excuses. Habit! If I was to get a habit (as you call it) of walking on the ceiling, like the flies, I should hear enough of it, I daresay.", "pos": 31915}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Bow-wow-wow! More like a professional singer with the hydrophobia, than a man in your station of life!", "pos": 32294}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "How’s the Baby, Loo?", "pos": 32481}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "What Baby do you mean?", "pos": 32543}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "The poor bereaved little baby. I don’t know of any other, my dear.", "pos": 32588}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "You don’t know of any other. More shame for you, I was going to say. I am sure the morning I have had, with that dining-room downstairs, one mass of babies, no one in their senses would believe.", "pos": 32674}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "One mass of babies!", "pos": 32923}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "It would have occurred to most men, that poor dear Fanny being no more,—those words of mine will always be a balm and comfort to me, it becomes necessary to provide a Nurse.", "pos": 33010}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "Oh! Ah! Toor-ru!—such is life, I mean. I hope you are suited, my dear.", "pos": 33231}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Indeed I am not, nor likely to be, so far as I can see, and in the meantime the poor child seems likely to be starved to death. Paul is so very particular—naturally so, of course, having set his whole heart on this one boy—and there are so many objections to everybody that offers, that I don’t see, myself, the least chance of an arrangement. Meanwhile, of course, the child is—", "pos": 33321}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "Going to the Devil, to be sure.", "pos": 33721}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "Couldn’t something temporary be done with a teapot?", "pos": 34006}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I trust he hadn’t said it in aggravation, because that would do very little honour to his heart. I trust he hadn’t said it seriously, because that would do very little honour to his head. As in any case, he couldn’t, however sanguine his disposition, hope to offer a remark that would be a greater outrage on human nature in general, we would beg to leave the discussion at that point.", "pos": 34244}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa, is the vacancy still unsupplied?", "pos": 35595}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "You good soul, yes,", "pos": 35663}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Then, my dear Louisa. I hope and believe—but in one moment, my dear, I’ll introduce the party.", "pos": 35701}
{"speaker": "He", "text": "kitch hold of his brother Johnny.", "pos": 36580}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa, knowing your great anxiety, and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females, which you had forgot, and put the question, Was there anybody there that they thought would suit? No, they said there was not. When they gave me that answer, I do assure you, my dear, I was almost driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, reminded the matron of another who had gone to her own home, and who, she said, would in all likelihood be most satisfactory. The moment I heard this, and had it corroborated by the matron—excellent references and unimpeachable character—I got the address, my dear, and posted off again.", "pos": 36615}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Like the dear good Tox, you are!", "pos": 37376}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Not at all. Don’t say so. Arriving at the house (the cleanest place, my dear! You might eat your dinner off the floor), I found the whole family sitting at table; and feeling that no account of them could be half so comfortable to you and Mr Dombey as the sight of them all together, I brought them all away. This gentleman, is the father. Will you have the goodness to come a little forward, Sir?", "pos": 37424}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,", "pos": 38121}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I’m glad to hear it. The other young woman is her unmarried sister who lives with them, and would take care of her children. Her name’s Jemima. How do you do, Jemima?", "pos": 38329}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,", "pos": 38515}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I’m very glad indeed to hear it. I hope you’ll keep so. Five children. Youngest six weeks. The fine little boy with the blister on his nose is the eldest. The blister, I believe, is not constitutional, but accidental?", "pos": 38571}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Flat iron.", "pos": 38901}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I beg your pardon, Sir, did you—", "pos": 38914}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Flat iron,", "pos": 38966}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh yes. Yes! quite true. I forgot. The little creature, in his mother’s absence, smelt a warm flat iron. You’re quite right, Sir. You were going to have the goodness to inform me, when we arrived at the door that you were by trade a—", "pos": 39009}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Stoker,", "pos": 39245}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "A choker!", "pos": 39269}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Stoker. Steam ingine.", "pos": 39326}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh-h! Yes! And how do you like it, Sir?", "pos": 39350}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Which, Mum?", "pos": 39519}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "That. Your trade.", "pos": 39567}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Oh! Pretty well, Mum. The ashes sometimes gets in here; and makes a man speak gruff, as at the present time. But it is ashes, Mum, not crustiness.", "pos": 39587}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "These children look healthy. But my God, to think of their some day claiming a sort of relationship to Paul!", "pos": 41461}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "But what relationship is there!", "pos": 41590}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Is there!", "pos": 41638}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Can there be, I mean—", "pos": 41795}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Why none. The whole world knows that, I presume. Grief has not made me idiotic, Louisa. Take them away, Louisa! Let me see this woman and her husband. My good woman, I understand you are poor, and wish to earn money by nursing the little boy, my son, who has been so prematurely deprived of what can never be replaced. I have no objection to your adding to the comforts of your family by that means. So far as I can tell, you seem to be a deserving object. But I must impose one or two conditions on you, before you enter my house in that capacity. While you are here, I must stipulate that you are always known as—say as Richards—an ordinary name, and convenient. Have you any objection to be known as Richards? You had better consult your husband. Well? What does your husband say to your being called Richards?", "pos": 41846}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "that perhaps if she was to be called out of her name, it would be considered in the wages.", "pos": 43162}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Oh, of course. I desire to make it a question of wages, altogether. Now, Richards, if you nurse my bereaved child, I wish you to remember this always. You will receive a liberal stipend in return for the discharge of certain duties, in the performance of which, I wish you to see as little of your family as possible. When those duties cease to be required and rendered, and the stipend ceases to be paid, there is an end of all relations between us. Do you understand me?", "pos": 43273}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "she hoped she knew her place.", "pos": 44423}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I hope you do, Richards. I have no doubt you know it very well. Indeed it is so plain and obvious that it could hardly be otherwise. Louisa, my dear, arrange with Richards about money, and let her have it when and how she pleases. Mr what’s-your name, a word with you, if you please!", "pos": 44473}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have a son, I believe?", "pos": 45437}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Four on ’em, Sir. Four hims and a her. All alive!", "pos": 45482}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Why, it’s as much as you can afford to keep them!", "pos": 45534}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I couldn’t hardly afford but one thing in the world less, Sir.", "pos": 45602}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 45667}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "To lose ’em, Sir.", "pos": 45683}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Can you read?", "pos": 45703}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Why, not partickk’ller, Sir.", "pos": 45736}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Write?", "pos": 45767}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "With chalk, Sir?", "pos": 45776}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "With anything?", "pos": 45795}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I could make shift to chalk a little bit, I think, if I was put to it,", "pos": 45812}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And yet, you are two or three and thirty, I suppose?", "pos": 45938}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Thereabouts, I suppose, Sir,", "pos": 45993}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Then why don’t you learn?", "pos": 46063}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "So I’m a going to, Sir. One of my little boys is a going to learn me, when he’s old enough, and been to school himself.", "pos": 46108}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well, you heard what I said to your wife just now?", "pos": 46430}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Polly heerd it,", "pos": 46483}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "But I ask you if you heard it. You did, I suppose, and understood it?", "pos": 46650}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I heerd it, but I don’t know as I understood it rightly Sir, account of being no scholar, and the words being—ask your pardon—rayther high. But Polly heerd it. It’s all right.", "pos": 46757}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "As you appear to leave everything to her, I suppose it is of no use my saying anything to you.", "pos": 46935}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Not a bit,", "pos": 47167}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I won’t detain you any longer then. Where have you worked all your life?", "pos": 47229}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Mostly underground, Sir, till I got married. I come to the level then. I’m a going on one of these here railroads when they comes into full play. We means to bring up little Biler to that line,", "pos": 47341}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "who little Biler was.", "pos": 47610}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "The eldest on ’em, Sir. It ain’t a common name. Sermuchser that when he was took to church the gen’lm’n said, it wamm’t a chris’en one, and he couldn’t give it. But we always calls him Biler just the same. For we don’t mean no harm. Not we.", "pos": 47633}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Do you mean to say, Man, that you have called a child after a boiler?", "pos": 47905}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "No, no, Sir, I should hope not! No, Sir. Arter a BILER Sir. The Steamingine was a’most as good as a godfather to him, and so we called him Biler, don’t you see!", "pos": 48103}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You’ll take a glass yourself, Sir, won’t you?", "pos": 52127}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Thankee, Mum, since you are suppressing.", "pos": 52210}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And you’re very glad to leave your dear good wife in such a comfortable home, ain’t you, Sir?", "pos": 52268}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "No, Mum. Here’s wishing of her back agin.", "pos": 52433}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Your little child will thrive charmingly with your sister Jemima, Richards; and you have only to make an effort—this is a world of effort, you know, Richards—to be very happy indeed. You have been already measured for your mourning, haven’t you, Richards? And it’ll fit beautifully. I know, for the same young person has made me many dresses. The very best materials, too!", "pos": 52700}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Lor, you’ll be so smart, that your husband won’t know you; will you, Sir?", "pos": 53143}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I should know her, anyhows and anywheres.", "pos": 53236}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "As to living, Richards, you know, why, the very best of everything will be at your disposal. You will order your little dinner every day; and anything you take a fancy to, I’m sure will be as readily provided as if you were a Lady.", "pos": 53348}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And as to porter!—quite unlimited, will it not, Louisa?", "pos": 53677}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Oh, certainly! With a little abstinence, you know, my dear, in point of vegetables.", "pos": 53735}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And pickles, perhaps,", "pos": 53860}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "she’ll consult her choice entirely, and be under no restraint at all, my love.", "pos": 53941}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And then, of course, you know, however fond she is of her own dear little child—and I’m sure, Louisa, you don’t blame her for being fond of it?", "pos": 54022}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Oh no!", "pos": 54185}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Still, she naturally must be interested in her young charge, and must consider it a privilege to see a little cherub connected with the superior classes, gradually unfolding itself from day to day at one common fountain—is it not so, Louisa?", "pos": 54244}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Most undoubtedly! You see, my love, she’s already quite contented and comfortable, and means to say goodbye to her sister Jemima and her little pets, and her good honest husband, with a light heart and a smile; don’t she, my dear?", "pos": 54487}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh yes! To be sure she does!", "pos": 54738}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Polly, old “ooman, whatever you do, my darling, hold up your head and fight low. That’s the only rule as I know on, that’ll carry anyone through life. You always have held up your head and fought low, Polly. Do it now, or Bricks is no longer so. God bless you, Polly! Me and J’mima will do your duty by you; and with relating to your’n, hold up your head and fight low, Polly, and you can’t go wrong!", "pos": 55052}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "she was a quiet-tempered lady", "pos": 57140}
{"speaker": "house-keeper", "text": "it was the common lot", "pos": 57201}
{"speaker": "butler", "text": "who’d have thought it", "pos": 57248}
{"speaker": "housemaid", "text": "she couldn’t hardly believe it", "pos": 57298}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "it seemed exactly like a dream", "pos": 57355}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "It’s Miss Florence come home from her aunt’s, no doubt. Hope I see you well, Miss.", "pos": 62581}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is that my brother?", "pos": 62723}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Yes, my pretty. Come and kiss him.", "pos": 62784}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "What have you done with my Mama?", "pos": 62923}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Lord bless the little creeter! what a sad question! I done? Nothing, Miss.", "pos": 62958}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "What have they done with my Mama?", "pos": 63053}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I never saw such a melting thing in all my life! Come nearer here, my dear Miss! Don’t be afraid of me.", "pos": 63148}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am not afraid of you. But I want to know what they have done with my Mama.", "pos": 63373}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "My darling, you wear that pretty black frock in remembrance of your Mama.", "pos": 63754}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I can remember my Mama, in any frock.", "pos": 63847}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "But people put on black, to remember people when they’re gone.", "pos": 63943}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Where gone?", "pos": 64008}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Come and sit down by me, and I’ll tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a lady—a very good lady, and her little daughter dearly loved her.", "pos": 64039}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "A very good lady and her little daughter dearly loved her,", "pos": 64447}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Who, when God thought it right that it should be so, was taken ill and died. Died, never to be seen again by anyone on earth, and was buried in the ground where the trees grow.", "pos": 64528}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "The cold ground?", "pos": 64730}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "No! The warm ground, where the ugly little seeds turn into beautiful flowers, and into grass, and corn, and I don’t know what all besides. Where good people turn into bright angels, and fly away to Heaven! So; let me see. So, when this lady died, wherever they took her, or wherever they put her, she went to GOD! and she prayed to Him, this lady did, to teach her little daughter to be sure of that in her heart: and to know that she was happy there and loved her still: and to hope and try—Oh, all her life—to meet her there one day, never, never, never to part any more.", "pos": 64783}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It was my Mama!", "pos": 65734}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And the child’s heart, the little daughter’s heart was so full of the truth of this, that even when she heard it from a strange nurse that couldn’t tell it right, but was a poor mother herself and that was all, she found a comfort in it—didn’t feel so lonely—sobbed and cried upon her bosom—took kindly to the baby lying in her lap—and—there, there, there! There, poor dear!", "pos": 65820}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh well, Miss Floy! And won’t your Pa be angry neither! When it was “tickerlerly given out that you wasn’t to go and worrit the wet nurse.", "pos": 66310}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "She don’t worry me. I am very fond of children.", "pos": 66600}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh! but begging your pardon, Mrs Richards, that don’t matter, you know. I may be very fond of pennywinkles, Mrs Richards, but it don’t follow that I’m to have ’em for tea.", "pos": 66690}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Well, it don’t matter,", "pos": 66978}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh, thank’ee, Mrs Richards, don’t it! Remembering, however, if you’ll be so good, that Miss Floy’s under my charge, and Master Paul’s under your’n.", "pos": 67015}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "But still we needn’t quarrel,", "pos": 67192}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh no, Mrs Richards. Not at all, I don’t wish it, we needn’t stand upon that footing, Miss Floy being a permanency, Master Paul a temporary. Miss Florence has just come home, hasn’t she?", "pos": 67236}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Yes, Mrs Richards, just come, and here, Miss Floy, before you’ve been in the house a quarter of an hour, you go a smearing your wet face against the expensive mourning that Mrs Richards is a wearing for your Ma! She’ll be quite happy, now she has come home again, and will be so pleased to see her dear Papa tonight.", "pos": 67591}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Lork, Mrs Richards! Don’t. See her dear Papa indeed! I should like to see her do it!", "pos": 68269}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Won’t she then?", "pos": 68410}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Lork, Mrs Richards, no, her Pa’s a deal too wrapped up in somebody else, and before there was a somebody else to be wrapped up in she never was a favourite, girls are thrown away in this house, Mrs Richards, I assure you.", "pos": 68441}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Hasn’t Mr Dombey seen her since—", "pos": 68796}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "No. Not once since, and he hadn’t hardly set his eyes upon her before that for months and months, and I don’t think he’d have known her for his own child if he had met her in the streets, or would know her for his own child if he was to meet her in the streets to-morrow, Mrs Richards, as to me. I doubt if he’s aweer of my existence.", "pos": 68831}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Pretty dear!", "pos": 69228}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh! there’s a Tartar within a hundred miles of where we’re now in conversation, I can tell you, Mrs Richards, present company always excepted too, wish you good morning, Mrs Richards, now Miss Floy, you come along with me, and don’t go hanging back like a naughty wicked child that judgments is no example to, don’t!", "pos": 69309}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "God bless the sweet thing! Good-bye, dear!", "pos": 70009}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Good-bye! God bless you! I shall come to see you again soon, and you’ll come to see me? Susan will let us. Won’t you, Susan?", "pos": 70071}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "It ain’t right of you to ask it, Miss Floy, for you know I can’t refuse you, but Mrs Richards and me will see what can be done, if Mrs Richards likes, I may wish, you see, to take a voyage to Chaney, Mrs Richards, but I mayn’t know how to leave the London Docks. This house ain’t so exactly ringing with merry-making, that one need be lonelier than one must be. Your Toxes and your Chickses may draw out my two front double teeth, Mrs Richards, but that’s no reason why I need offer ’em the whole set. So I’m agreeable, I’m sure, to live friendly, Mrs Richards, while Master Paul continues a permanency, if the means can be planned out without going openly against orders, but goodness gracious Miss Floy, you haven’t got your things off yet, you naughty child, you haven’t, come along!", "pos": 70652}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Good evening, Richards. How is Master Paul, Richards?", "pos": 73730}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Quite thriving, Sir, and well.", "pos": 73978}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "He looks so. They give you everything you want, I hope?", "pos": 74011}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Oh yes, thank you, Sir. If you please, Sir, the child is very much disposed to take notice of things, and—upstairs is a little dull for him, perhaps, Sir.", "pos": 74213}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I begged them to take you out for airings, constantly. Very well! You shall go out oftener. You’re quite right to mention it.", "pos": 74567}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I beg your pardon, Sir, but we go out quite plenty Sir, thank you.", "pos": 74713}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What would you have then?", "pos": 74800}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Indeed Sir, I don’t exactly know, unless—", "pos": 74845}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes?", "pos": 74903}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I believe nothing is so good for making children lively and cheerful, Sir, as seeing other children playing about ’em,", "pos": 74910}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I think I mentioned to you, Richards, when you came here, that I wished you to see as little of your family as possible.", "pos": 75063}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Oh dear yes, Sir, I wasn’t so much as thinking of that.", "pos": 75218}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am glad of it. You can continue your walk if you please.", "pos": 75276}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "If you really think that sort of society is good for the child, where’s Miss Florence?", "pos": 75896}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Nothing could be better than Miss Florence, Sir, but I understood from her maid that they were not to—", "pos": 76060}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Tell them always to let Miss Florence be with Richards when she chooses, and go out with her, and so forth. Tell them to let the children be together, when Richards wishes it.", "pos": 76245}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh father, try to love me! there’s no one else!", "pos": 79127}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Come in, come in: what is the child afraid of? Come here, Florence. Do you know who I am?", "pos": 79553}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, Papa.", "pos": 79832}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Have you nothing to say to me? There! Be a good girl. Go to Richards! Go!", "pos": 79845}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh no, no! He don’t want me. He don’t want me!", "pos": 82019}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Miss Florence was afraid of interrupting, Sir, if she came in to say good-night,", "pos": 82226}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It doesn’t matter. You can let her come and go without regarding me.", "pos": 82324}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I thought you would have been pleased,", "pos": 82946}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh yes, Mrs Richards, I’m very well pleased, thank you,", "pos": 82999}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "You don’t show it,", "pos": 83174}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh! Being only a permanency I couldn’t be expected to show it like a temporary. Temporaries carries it all before ’em here, I find, but though there’s a excellent party-wall between this house and the next, I mayn’t exactly like to go to it, Mrs Richards, notwithstanding!", "pos": 83207}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "The streets have thinned, very much. Where’s Walter, I wonder! Here’s dinner been ready, half an hour, and no Walter! If I didn’t know he was too fond of me to make a run of it, and go and enter himself aboard ship against my wishes, I should begin to be fidgetty. I really should. All in the Downs, eh! Lots of moisture! Well! it’s wanted. I believe, that you don’t point more direct and due to the back parlour than the boy’s inclination does after all. And the parlour couldn’t bear straighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either way.", "pos": 89800}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Halloa, Uncle Sol!", "pos": 91154}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Halloa, my boy! What! you are here, are you?", "pos": 91175}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Well, Uncle, how have you got on without me all day? Is dinner ready? I’m so hungry.", "pos": 91386}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "As to getting on, it would be odd if I couldn’t get on without a young dog like you a great deal better than with you. As to dinner being ready, it’s been ready this half hour and waiting for you. As to being hungry, I am!", "pos": 91473}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Come along then, Uncle! Hurrah for the admiral!", "pos": 91729}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Confound the admiral! You mean the Lord Mayor. Lord Mayor.", "pos": 91796}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "No I don’t! Hurrah for the admiral! Hurrah for the admiral! For-ward!", "pos": 91871}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "The Lord Mayor, Wally, for ever! No more admirals. The Lord Mayor’s your admiral.", "pos": 92226}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Oh, is he though! Why, the Sword Bearer’s better than him. He draws his sword sometimes.", "pos": 92326}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "And a pretty figure he cuts with it for his pains. Listen to me, Wally, listen to me. Look on the mantelshelf.", "pos": 92451}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Why who has cocked my silver mug up there, on a nail?", "pos": 92586}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "I have. No more mugs now. We must begin to drink out of glasses today, Walter. We are men of business. We belong to the City. We started in life this morning.", "pos": 92661}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Well, Uncle. I’ll drink out of anything you like, so long as I can drink to you. Here’s to you, Uncle Sol, and Hurrah for the—", "pos": 92840}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Lord Mayor,", "pos": 92985}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "For the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Common Council, and Livery. Long life to ’em!", "pos": 93024}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "And now, let’s hear something about the Firm.", "pos": 93169}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Oh! there’s not much to be told about the Firm, Uncle. It’s a precious dark set of offices, and in the room where I sit, there’s a high fender, and an iron safe, and some cards about ships that are going to sail, and an almanack, and some desks and stools, and an inkbottle, and some books, and some boxes, and a lot of cobwebs, and in one of ’em, just over my head, a shrivelled-up blue-bottle that looks as if it had hung there ever so long.", "pos": 93228}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Nothing else?", "pos": 93717}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "No, nothing else, except an old birdcage (I wonder how that ever came there!) and a coal-scuttle.", "pos": 93749}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No bankers’ books, or cheque books, or bills, or such tokens of wealth rolling in from day to day?", "pos": 93849}
{"speaker": "nephew", "text": "Oh yes, plenty of that I suppose, but all that sort of thing’s in Mr Carker’s room, or Mr Morfin’s, or Mr Dombey’s.", "pos": 94097}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Has Mr Dombey been there today?", "pos": 94249}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh yes! In and out all day. He didn’t take any notice of you, I suppose?. Yes he did. He walked up to my seat,—I wish he wasn’t so solemn and stiff, Uncle,—and said, ‘Oh! you are the son of Mr Gills the Ships’ Instrument-maker.’ Nephew, Sir. I said nephew, boy. But I could take my oath he said son, Uncle.", "pos": 94303}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "You’re mistaken I daresay. It’s no matter.", "pos": 94637}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, it’s no matter, but he needn’t have been so sharp, I thought. There was no harm in it though he did say son. Then he told me that you had spoken to him about me, and that he had found me employment in the House accordingly, and that I was expected to be attentive and punctual, and then he went away. I thought he didn’t seem to like me much.", "pos": 94682}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "You mean, I suppose, that you didn’t seem to like him much?", "pos": 95031}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Well, Uncle. Perhaps so; I never thought of that.", "pos": 95126}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Why, Uncle Sol! what are you about? that’s the wonderful Madeira!—there’s only one more bottle!", "pos": 95714}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "You shall drink the other bottle, Wally, when you come to good fortune; when you are a thriving, respected, happy man; when the start in life you have made today shall have brought you, as I pray Heaven it may!—to a smooth part of the course you have to run, my child. My love to you!", "pos": 96027}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Dear Uncle, for the honour you have done me, et cetera, et cetera. I shall now beg to propose Mr Solomon Gills with three times three and one cheer more. Hurrah! and you’ll return thanks, Uncle, when we drink the last bottle together; won’t you?", "pos": 96589}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "You see, Walter, in truth this business is merely a habit with me. I am so accustomed to the habit that I could hardly live if I relinquished it: but there’s nothing doing, nothing doing. When that uniform was worn, then indeed, fortunes were to be made, and were made. But competition, competition—new invention, new invention—alteration, alteration—the world’s gone past me. I hardly know where I am myself, much less where my customers are.", "pos": 97297}
{"speaker": "Uncle", "text": "Never mind ’em, Uncle!", "pos": 97800}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Since you came home from weekly boarding-school at Peckham, for instance—and that’s ten days. I don’t remember more than one person that has come into the shop.", "pos": 97825}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Two, Uncle, don’t you recollect? There was the man who came to ask for change for a sovereign—", "pos": 98004}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "That’s the one,", "pos": 98101}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Why Uncle! don’t you call the woman anybody, who came to ask the way to Mile-End Turnpike?", "pos": 98133}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Oh! it’s true. I forgot her. Two persons.", "pos": 98226}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "To be sure, they didn’t buy anything,", "pos": 98286}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No. They didn’t buy anything,", "pos": 98341}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Nor want anything,", "pos": 98396}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No. If they had, they’d gone to another shop,", "pos": 98432}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "But there were two of ’em, Uncle. You said only one.", "pos": 98512}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Well, Wally, not being like the Savages who came on Robinson Crusoe’s Island, we can’t live on a man who asks for change for a sovereign, and a woman who inquires the way to Mile-End Turnpike. As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don’t blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead, confuses me.", "pos": 98617}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Therefore, Wally—therefore it is that I am anxious you should be early in the busy world, and on the world’s track. I am only the ghost of this business—its substance vanished long ago; and when I die, its ghost will be laid. As it is clearly no inheritance for you then, I have thought it best to use for your advantage, almost the only fragment of the old connexion that stands by me, through long habit. Some people suppose me to be wealthy. I wish for your sake they were right. But whatever I leave behind me, or whatever I can give you, you in such a House as Dombey’s are in the road to use well and make the most of. Be diligent, try to like it, my dear boy, work for a steady independence, and be happy!", "pos": 99421}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "I’ll do everything I can, Uncle, to deserve your affection. Indeed I will,", "pos": 100136}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I know it. I am sure of it. As to the Sea, that’s well enough in fiction, Wally, but it won’t do in fact: it won’t do at all. It’s natural enough that you should think about it, associating it with all these familiar things; but it won’t do, it won’t do. Think of this wine for instance, which has been to the East Indies and back, I’m not able to say how often, and has been once round the world. Think of the pitch-dark nights, the roaring winds, and rolling seas:", "pos": 100238}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "The thunder, lightning, rain, hail, storm of all kinds,", "pos": 101018}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "To be sure, that this wine has passed through. Think what a straining and creaking of timbers and masts: what a whistling and howling of the gale through ropes and rigging:", "pos": 101090}
{"speaker": "nephew", "text": "What a clambering aloft of men, vying with each other who shall lie out first upon the yards to furl the icy sails, while the ship rolls and pitches, like mad!", "pos": 101281}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Exactly so, has gone on, over the old cask that held this wine. Why, when the Charming Sally went down in the—", "pos": 101461}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "In the Baltic Sea, in the dead of night; five-and-twenty minutes past twelve when the captain’s watch stopped in his pocket; he lying dead against the main-mast—on the fourteenth of February, seventeen forty-nine!", "pos": 101590}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ay, to be sure! quite right! Then, there were five hundred casks of such wine aboard; and all hands (except the first mate, first lieutenant, two seamen, and a lady, in a leaky boat) going to work to stave the casks, got drunk and died drunk, singing ‘Rule Britannia’, when she settled and went down, and ending with one awful scream in chorus.", "pos": 101842}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "But when the George the Second drove ashore, Uncle, on the coast of Cornwall, in a dismal gale, two hours before daybreak, on the fourth of March, “seventy-one, she had near two hundred horses aboard; and the horses breaking loose down below, early in the gale, and tearing to and fro, and trampling each other to death, made such noises, and set up such human cries, that the crew believing the ship to be full of devils, some of the best men, losing heart and head, went overboard in despair, and only two were left alive, at last, to tell the tale.", "pos": 102206}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "And when, when the Polyphemus—", "pos": 102760}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Private West India Trader, burden three hundred and fifty tons, Captain, John Brown of Deptford. Owners, Wiggs and Co.,", "pos": 102809}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "The same, when she took fire, four days’ sail with a fair wind out of Jamaica Harbour, in the night—", "pos": 102945}
{"speaker": "nephew", "text": "There were two brothers on board, and there not being room for both of them in the only boat that wasn’t swamped, neither of them would consent to go, until the elder took the younger by the waist, and flung him in. And then the younger, rising in the boat, cried out, ‘Dear Edward, think of your promised wife at home. I’m only a boy. No one waits at home for me. Leap down into my place!’ and flung himself in the sea!", "pos": 103060}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Well! suppose we change the subject.", "pos": 103902}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "How goes it?", "pos": 105731}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "All well,", "pos": 105746}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "The?", "pos": 105890}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "The,", "pos": 105897}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Look at him! Love! Honour! And Obey! Overhaul your catechism till you find that passage, and when found turn the leaf down. Success, my boy!", "pos": 106149}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "But I never wanted two or three words in my life that I didn’t know where to lay my hand upon ’em, Gills. It comes of not wasting language as some do. I suppose he could make a clock if he tried?", "pos": 106486}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "I shouldn’t wonder, Captain Cuttle,", "pos": 106977}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And it would go! Lord, how that clock would go!", "pos": 107033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But he’s chock-full of science,", "pos": 107309}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Look’ye here! Here’s a collection of ’em. Earth, air, or water. It’s all one. Only say where you’ll have it. Up in a balloon? There you are. Down in a bell? There you are. D’ye want to put the North Star in a pair of scales and weigh it? He’ll do it for you. Ah! it’s a fine thing to understand ’em. And yet it’s a fine thing not to understand ’em. I hardly know which is best. It’s so comfortable to sit here and feel that you might be weighed, measured, magnified, electrified, polarized, played the very devil with: and never know how.", "pos": 107400}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Come! Before you have your glass of grog, Ned, we must finish the bottle.", "pos": 108647}
{"speaker": "Ned", "text": "Stand by! Give the boy some more.", "pos": 108774}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No more, thank’e, Uncle!", "pos": 108841}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, yes, a little more. We’ll finish the bottle, to the House, Ned—Walter’s House. Why it may be his House one of these days, in part. Who knows? Sir Richard Whittington married his master’s daughter.", "pos": 108868}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "'Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and when you are old you will never depart from it,' Wal”r! Overhaul the book, my lad.", "pos": 109085}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "And although Mr Dombey hasn’t a daughter,", "pos": 109246}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Yes, yes, he has, Uncle,", "pos": 109301}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Has he? Indeed I think he has too.", "pos": 109366}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh! I know he has. Some of ’em were talking about it in the office today. And they do say, Uncle and Captain Cuttle, that he’s taken a dislike to her, and that she’s left, unnoticed, among the servants, and that his mind’s so set all the while upon having his son in the House, that although he’s only a baby now, he is going to have balances struck oftener than formerly, and the books kept closer than they used to be, and has even been seen (when he thought he wasn’t) walking in the Docks, looking at his ships and property and all that, as if he was exulting like, over what he and his son will possess together. That’s what they say. Of course, I don’t know.", "pos": 109424}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "He knows all about her already, you see,", "pos": 110129}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Nonsense, Uncle. How can I help hearing what they tell me?", "pos": 110199}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "The son’s a little in our way at present, I’m afraid, Ned,", "pos": 110317}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Very much,", "pos": 110416}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Nevertheless, we’ll drink him. So, here’s to Dombey and Son.", "pos": 110447}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh, very well, Uncle. Since you have introduced the mention of her, and have connected me with her and have said that I know all about her, I shall make bold to amend the toast. So here’s to Dombey—and Son—and Daughter!", "pos": 110525}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "pray tell your friend, Louisa, that she is very good, mention to Miss Tox, Louisa, that I am obliged to her;", "pos": 111355}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Is he not beautiful Mr Dombey! Is he not a Cupid, Sir!", "pos": 113348}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Louisa. I really think I must present your friend with some little token, on the occasion of Paul’s christening. She has exerted herself so warmly in the child’s behalf from the first, and seems to understand her position so thoroughly (a very rare merit in this world, I am sorry to say), that it would really be agreeable to me to notice her.", "pos": 113480}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul, you do Miss Tox but justice, as a man of your penetration was sure, I knew, to do. I believe if there are three words in the English language for which she has a respect amounting almost to veneration, those words are, Dombey and Son.", "pos": 114246}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well. I believe it. It does Miss Tox credit.", "pos": 114520}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Godfathers, of course,", "pos": 114964}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I don’t know why they should be, to my son,", "pos": 115063}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Very true, my dear Paul, perhaps that is a reason why you might have the less objection to allowing Miss Tox to be godmother to the dear thing, if it were only as deputy and proxy for someone else. That it would be received as a great honour and distinction, Paul, I need not say.", "pos": 115133}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Louisa. It is not to be supposed—", "pos": 115736}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Certainly not. I never thought it was.", "pos": 115811}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Good Heaven, Louisa!", "pos": 116293}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "No, my dear Paul. I must really be allowed to speak. I am not so clever, or so reasoning, or so eloquent, or so anything, as you are. I know that very well. So much the worse for me. But if they were the last words I had to utter—and last words should be very solemn to you and me, Paul, after poor dear Fanny—I would still say I never thought it was. And what is more. I never did think it was.", "pos": 116332}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It is not to be supposed, Louisa,", "pos": 116916}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I know it isn’t,", "pos": 117020}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "but that there are many persons who, supposing that I recognised any claim at all in such a case, have a claim upon me superior to Miss Tox’s. But I do not. I recognise no such thing. Paul and myself will be able, when the time comes, to hold our own—the House, in other words, will be able to hold its own, and maintain its own, and hand down its own of itself, and without any such common-place aids. The kind of foreign help which people usually seek for their children, I can afford to despise; being above it, I hope. So that Paul’s infancy and childhood pass away well, and I see him becoming qualified without waste of time for the career on which he is destined to enter, I am satisfied. He will make what powerful friends he pleases in after-life, when he is actively maintaining—and extending, if that is possible—the dignity and credit of the Firm. Until then, I am enough for him, perhaps, and all in all. I have no wish that people should step in between us. I would much rather show my sense of the obliging conduct of a deserving person like your friend. Therefore let it be so; and your husband and myself will do well enough for the other sponsors, I daresay.", "pos": 117069}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "How sound she sleeps!", "pos": 122319}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Why, you know, my dear, she takes a great deal of exercise in the course of the day,", "pos": 122358}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "She is a curious child,", "pos": 122502}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Her Mama, all over!", "pos": 122590}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "In-deed!", "pos": 122612}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Florence will never, never, never be a Dombey,", "pos": 122786}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I quite fret and worry myself about her,", "pos": 122967}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I really don’t see what is to become of her when she grows older, or what position she is to take. She don’t gain on her Papa in the least. How can one expect she should, when she is so very unlike a Dombey? And the child, you see,", "pos": 123055}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Like the ivy?", "pos": 123579}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Like the ivy. Never! She’ll never glide and nestle into the bosom of her Papa’s affections like—the—", "pos": 123615}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Startled fawn?", "pos": 123740}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Like the startled fawn. Never! Poor Fanny! Yet, how I loved her!", "pos": 123777}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You must not distress yourself, my dear,", "pos": 123862}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "We have all our faults. I daresay we have. I never was blind to hers. I never said I was. Far from it. Yet how I loved her!", "pos": 123982}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh! dear nurse! let me lie by my brother!", "pos": 125183}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Why, my pet?", "pos": 125279}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh! I think he loves me. Let me lie by him. Pray do! I’ll not wake him. I’ll only touch him with my hand, and go to sleep. Oh, pray, pray, let me lie by my brother tonight, for I believe he’s fond of me!", "pos": 125309}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Poor little thing, she has been dreaming, I daresay.", "pos": 126144}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Have the goodness, if you please, Towlinson, first of all, to carry out a pen and ink and take his number legibly.", "pos": 127118}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Yes, Miss,", "pos": 127252}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Then, if you please, Towlinson, have the goodness to turn the cushion. Which, is generally damp, my dear.", "pos": 127281}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Yes, Miss,", "pos": 127442}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I’ll trouble you also, if you please, Towlinson, with this card and this shilling. He’s to drive to the card, and is to understand that he will not on any account have more than the shilling.", "pos": 127471}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "No, Miss,", "pos": 127682}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And—I’m sorry to give you so much trouble, Towlinson,", "pos": 127710}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Not at all, Miss,", "pos": 127807}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Mention to the man, then, if you please, Towlinson, that the lady’s uncle is a magistrate, and that if he gives her any of his impertinence he will be punished terribly. You can pretend to say that, if you please, Towlinson, in a friendly way, and because you know it was done to another man, who died.", "pos": 127843}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Certainly, Miss,", "pos": 128165}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And now good-night to my sweet, sweet, sweet, godson, and Louisa, my dear friend, promise me to take a little something warm before you go to bed, and not to distress yourself!", "pos": 128200}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "You might keep me in a strait-waistcoat for six weeks, and when I got it off I’d only be more aggravated, who ever heard the like of them two Griffins, Mrs Richards?", "pos": 128739}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And then to talk of having been dreaming, poor dear!", "pos": 128922}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh you beauties! Never be a Dombey won’t she? It’s to be hoped she won’t, we don’t want any more such, one’s enough.", "pos": 128989}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Don’t wake the children, Susan dear,", "pos": 129193}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I’m very much beholden to you, Mrs Richards, and really feel it as a honour to receive your commands, being a black slave and a mulotter. Mrs Richards, if there’s any other orders, you can give me, pray mention ’em.", "pos": 129244}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Nonsense; orders,", "pos": 129530}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh! bless your heart, Mrs Richards, temporaries always orders permanencies here, didn’t you know that, why wherever was you born, Mrs Richards? But wherever you was born, Mrs Richards, and whenever, and however (which is best known to yourself), you may bear in mind, please, that it’s one thing to give orders, and quite another thing to take ’em. A person may tell a person to dive off a bridge head foremost into five-and-forty feet of water, Mrs Richards, but a person may be very far from diving.", "pos": 129562}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "There now, you’re angry because you’re a good little thing, and fond of Miss Florence; and yet you turn round on me, because there’s nobody else.", "pos": 130130}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "It’s very easy for some to keep their tempers, and be soft-spoken, Mrs Richards, when their child’s made as much of as a prince, and is petted and patted till it wishes its friends further, but when a sweet young pretty innocent, that never ought to have a cross word spoken to or of it, is rundown, the case is very different indeed. My goodness gracious me, Miss Floy, you naughty, sinful child, if you don’t shut your eyes this minute, I’ll call in them hobgoblins that lives in the cock-loft to come and eat you up alive!", "pos": 130292}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul, the beginning, I hope, of many joyful days!", "pos": 133287}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Thank you, Louisa. How do you do, Mr John?", "pos": 133390}
{"speaker": "Chick", "text": "How do you do, Sir?", "pos": 133461}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Perhaps, Louisa, you would have preferred a fire?", "pos": 133706}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Oh, my dear Paul, no, not for me.", "pos": 133841}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr John, you are not sensible of any chill?", "pos": 133947}
{"speaker": "Mr John", "text": "With my tiddle tol toor rul", "pos": 134278}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Miss Tox!", "pos": 134372}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "How do you do, Miss Tox?", "pos": 134571}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I can never forget this occasion, Sir, ’Tis impossible. My dear Louisa, I can hardly believe the evidence of my senses.", "pos": 134808}
{"speaker": "aunt", "text": "Now Florence, child! what are you doing, love? Show yourself to him. Engage his attention, my dear!", "pos": 136171}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr John. Take my sister, if you please: my arm today is Miss Tox’s. You had better go first with Master Paul, Richards. Be very careful.", "pos": 137483}
{"speaker": "beadle", "text": "Please to bring the child in quick out of the air there,", "pos": 139007}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "into my grave?", "pos": 139172}
{"speaker": "beadle", "text": "There’s a wedding just on, Sir, but it’ll be over directly, if you’ll walk into the westry here.", "pos": 139805}
{"speaker": "Clergyman", "text": "a tall figure all in white;", "pos": 141979}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr John, will you take the bottom of the table, if you please? What have you got there, Mr John?", "pos": 144471}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "I have got a cold fillet of veal here, Sir. What have you got there, Sir?", "pos": 144588}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "This, is some cold preparation of calf’s head, I think. I see cold fowls—ham—patties—salad—lobster. Miss Tox will do me the honour of taking some wine? Champagne to Miss Tox.", "pos": 144724}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Hem!", "pos": 145083}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "Well, Sir. I shall drink this, if you’ll allow me, Sir, to little Paul.", "pos": 145519}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Bless him!", "pos": 145690}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Dear little Dombey!", "pos": 145744}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr John, my son would feel and express himself obliged to you, I have no doubt, if he could appreciate the favour you have done him. He will prove, in time to come, I trust, equal to any responsibility that the obliging disposition of his relations and friends, in private, or the onerous nature of our position, in public, may impose upon him.", "pos": 145786}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Louisa!", "pos": 146497}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear,", "pos": 146507}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Onerous nature of our position in public may—I have forgotten the exact term.", "pos": 146534}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Expose him to,", "pos": 146614}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Pardon me, my dear. I think not. It was more rounded and flowing. Obliging disposition of relations and friends in private, or onerous nature of position in public—may—impose upon him!", "pos": 146647}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Impose upon him, to be sure,", "pos": 146855}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "eloquence indeed!", "pos": 146999}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "During the six months or so, Richards, which have seen you an inmate of this house, you have done your duty. Desiring to connect some little service to you with this occasion, I considered how I could best effect that object, and I also advised with my sister, Mrs—", "pos": 147420}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "Chick,", "pos": 147688}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh, hush if you please!", "pos": 147736}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I was about to say to you, Richards, that I was further assisted in my decision, by the recollection of a conversation I held with your husband in this room, on the occasion of your being hired, when he disclosed to me the melancholy fact that your family, himself at the head, were sunk and steeped in ignorance. I am far from being friendly, to what is called by persons of levelling sentiments, general education. But it is necessary that the inferior classes should continue to be taught to know their position, and to conduct themselves properly. So far I approve of schools. Having the power of nominating a child on the foundation of an ancient establishment, called (from a worshipful company) the Charitable Grinders; where not only is a wholesome education bestowed upon the scholars, but where a dress and badge is likewise provided for them; I have (first communicating, through Mrs Chick, with your family) nominated your eldest son to an existing vacancy; and he has this day, I am informed, assumed the habit. The number of her son, I believe, is one hundred and forty-seven. Louisa, you can tell her.", "pos": 147777}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "One hundred and forty-seven. The dress, Richards, is a nice, warm, blue baize tailed coat and cap, turned up with orange coloured binding; red worsted stockings; and very strong leather small-clothes. One might wear the articles one’s self, and be grateful.", "pos": 149129}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "There, Richards! Now, indeed, you may be proud. The Charitable Grinders!", "pos": 149441}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I am sure I am very much obliged, Sir, and take it very kind that you should remember my little ones.", "pos": 149533}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I am very glad to see you have so much feeling, Richards,", "pos": 149861}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "It makes one almost hope, it really does, that there may yet be some faint spark of gratitude and right feeling in the world.", "pos": 149936}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "I don’t know what I wouldn’t give, to see the poor little dear before he gets used to ’em.", "pos": 151982}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Why, then, I tell you what, Mrs Richards, see him and make your mind easy.", "pos": 152089}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Mr Dombey wouldn’t like it,", "pos": 152226}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh, wouldn’t he, Mrs Richards! he’d like it very much, I think when he was asked.", "pos": 152268}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "You wouldn’t ask him, I suppose, at all?", "pos": 152371}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "No, Mrs Richards, quite contrairy, and them two inspectors Tox and Chick, not intending to be on duty tomorrow, as I heard ’em say, me and Miss Floy will go along with you tomorrow morning, and welcome, Mrs Richards, if you like, for we may as well walk there as up and down a street, and better too. What’s the matter with the child?", "pos": 152426}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "He’s cold, I think,", "pos": 153257}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "That’s my house, Susan,", "pos": 159773}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Is it, indeed, Mrs Richards?", "pos": 159828}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And there’s my sister Jemima at the door, I do declare with my own sweet precious baby in her arms!", "pos": 159888}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "Why, Polly! You! what a turn you have given me! who’d have thought it! come along in Polly! How well you do look to be sure! The children will go half wild to see you Polly, that they will.", "pos": 160309}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Look! there’s a pretty little lady come to see you, and see how quiet she is! what a beautiful little lady, ain’t she? Oh do come in and sit down a minute, Susan, please. This is my sister Jemima, this is. Jemima, I don’t know what I should ever do with myself, if it wasn’t for Susan Nipper; I shouldn’t be here now but for her.", "pos": 161384}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "Oh do sit down, Miss Nipper, if you please. I never was so glad to see anybody in all my life; now really I never was, Miss Nipper. Do untie your bonnet-strings, and make yourself at home, Miss Nipper, please. I am afraid it’s a poorer place than you’re used to; but you’ll make allowances, I’m sure.", "pos": 162063}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "But where’s my pretty boy? My poor fellow? I came all this way to see him in his new clothes.", "pos": 162735}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "Ah what a pity! He’ll break his heart, when he hears his mother has been here. He’s at school, Polly. Gone already! Yes. He went for the first time yesterday, for fear he should lose any learning. But it’s half-holiday, Polly: if you could only stop till he comes home—you and Miss Nipper, leastways,", "pos": 162845}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And how does he look, Jemima, bless him!", "pos": 163235}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "Well, really he don’t look so bad as you’d suppose,", "pos": 163294}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Ah! I knew his legs must be too short.", "pos": 163365}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "His legs is short, especially behind; but they’ll get longer, Polly, every day.", "pos": 163434}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And where’s Father, Jemima dear?", "pos": 163769}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "There again! What a pity! Father took his dinner with him this morning, and isn’t coming home till night. But he’s always talking of you, Polly, and telling the children about you; and is the peaceablest, patientest, best-temperedest soul in the world, as he always was and will be!", "pos": 163886}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Thankee, Jemima,", "pos": 164186}
{"speaker": "Jemima", "text": "Oh you needn’t thank me, Polly. I say the same of you sometimes, and think it too.", "pos": 164287}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Do you think that we might make time to go a little round in that direction, Susan?", "pos": 167001}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Why not, Mrs Richards?", "pos": 167136}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "It’s getting on towards our dinner time you know,", "pos": 167177}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan! Susan! Oh, where are they? where are they?", "pos": 170251}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Where are they? Why did you run away from ’em?", "pos": 170374}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I was frightened. I didn’t know what I did. I thought they were with me. Where are they?", "pos": 170523}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "I’ll show you.", "pos": 170682}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "You needn’t be frightened now. Come along with me.", "pos": 171365}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I—I don’t know you. What’s your name?", "pos": 171465}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Mrs Brown,", "pos": 171521}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Mrs Brown.", "pos": 171559}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Are they near here?", "pos": 171572}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Susan ain’t far off, and the others are close to her.", "pos": 171636}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is anybody hurt?", "pos": 171715}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not a bit of it. Good Mrs Brown.", "pos": 171750}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Now don’t be a young mule. I’m not a going to hurt you. Sit upon the rags. I’m not a going to keep you, even, above an hour. D’ye understand what I say?", "pos": 172826}
{"speaker": "Child", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 173166}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Then, don’t vex me. If you don’t, I tell you I won’t hurt you. But if you do, I’ll kill you. I could have you killed at any time—even if you was in your own bed at home. Now let’s know who you are, and what you are, and all about it. So your name’s Dombey, eh? I want that pretty frock, Miss Dombey, and that little bonnet, and a petticoat or two, and anything else you can spare. Come! Take ’em off.", "pos": 173173}
{"speaker": "She", "text": "Humph! I don’t see anything else—except the shoes. I must have the shoes, Miss Dombey.", "pos": 174331}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Why couldn’t you let me be! when I was contented? You little fool!", "pos": 175377}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I beg your pardon. I don’t know what I have done. I couldn’t help it.", "pos": 175464}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Couldn’t help it! How do you expect I can help it? Why, Lord!", "pos": 175555}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "anybody but me would have had ’em off, first of all.", "pos": 175702}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "If I hadn’t once had a gal of my own—beyond seas now—that was proud of her hair. I’d have had every lock of it. She’s far away, she’s far away! Oho! Oho!", "pos": 175970}
{"speaker": "Mr Clark", "text": "Now then! We haven’t got anything for you, little girl. Be off!", "pos": 181185}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "If you please, is this the City?", "pos": 181293}
{"speaker": "Mr Clark", "text": "Ah! It’s the City. You know that well enough, I daresay. Be off! We haven’t got anything for you.", "pos": 181373}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I don’t want anything, thank you. Except to know the way to Dombey and Son’s.", "pos": 181473}
{"speaker": "Mr Clark", "text": "Why, what can you want with Dombey and Son’s?", "pos": 181711}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "To know the way there, if you please.", "pos": 181759}
{"speaker": "Mr Clark", "text": "Joe!", "pos": 181932}
{"speaker": "Joe", "text": "Joe it is!", "pos": 182015}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where’s that young spark of Dombey’s who’s been watching the shipment of them goods?", "pos": 182038}
{"speaker": "Joe", "text": "Just gone, by tt’other gate,", "pos": 182125}
{"speaker": "Mr Clark", "text": "Call him back a minute. You’re Dombey’s jockey, ain’t you?", "pos": 182166}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "I’m in Dombey’s House, Mr Clark,", "pos": 182342}
{"speaker": "Mr Clark", "text": "Look’ye here, then,", "pos": 182395}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am lost, if you please!", "pos": 182883}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Lost!", "pos": 182926}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, I was lost this morning, a long way from here—and I have had my clothes taken away, since—and I am not dressed in my own now—and my name is Florence Dombey, my little brother’s only sister—and, oh dear, dear, take care of me, if you please!", "pos": 182949}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Don’t cry, Miss Dombey. What a wonderful thing for me that I am here! You are as safe now as if you were guarded by a whole boat’s crew of picked men from a man-of-war. Oh, don’t cry.", "pos": 183982}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I won’t cry any more. I am only crying for joy.", "pos": 184213}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Crying for joy! and I’m the cause of it! Come along, Miss Dombey. There’s the other shoe off now! Take mine, Miss Dombey.", "pos": 184280}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, no, no. These do better. These do very well.", "pos": 184422}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Why, to be sure, mine are a mile too large. What am I thinking about! You never could walk in mine! Come along, Miss Dombey. Let me see the villain who will dare molest you now.", "pos": 184550}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Have we far to go?", "pos": 185439}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Ah! By-the-bye, let me see; where are we? Oh! I know. But the offices are shut up now, Miss Dombey. There’s nobody there. Mr Dombey has gone home long ago. I suppose we must go home too? or, stay. Suppose I take you to my Uncle’s, where I live—it’s very near here—and go to your house in a coach to tell them you are safe, and bring you back some clothes. Won’t that be best?", "pos": 185529}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I think so. Don’t you? What do you think?", "pos": 185932}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Why, I think it’s Mr Carker. Carker in our House. Not Carker our Manager, Miss Dombey—the other Carker; the Junior—Halloa! Mr Carker!", "pos": 186205}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Is that Walter Gay? I couldn’t believe it, with such a strange companion.", "pos": 186356}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "What do you advise, Mr Carker? You always give me good advice, you know, when you do speak to me. That’s not often, though.", "pos": 187829}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I think your own idea is the best,", "pos": 187979}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Mr Carker. Come! Here’s a chance for you. Go you to Mr Dombey’s, and be the messenger of good news. It may do you some good, Sir. I’ll remain at home. You shall go.", "pos": 188078}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I!", "pos": 188297}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Yes. Why not, Mr Carker? Come, Miss Dombey, we’ll go to my Uncle’s as quick as we can. Did you ever hear Mr Dombey speak of Mr Carker the Junior, Miss Florence?", "pos": 188322}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No. I don’t often hear Papa speak.", "pos": 188734}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Ah! true! more shame for him. The strangest man, Mr Carker the Junior is, Miss Florence, that ever you heard of. If you could understand what an extraordinary interest he takes in me, and yet how he shuns me and avoids me; and what a low place he holds in our office, and how he is never advanced, and never complains, though year after year he sees young men passed over his head, and though his brother (younger than he is), is our head Manager, you would be as much puzzled about him as I am.", "pos": 188801}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Holloa, Uncle Sol! Here’s a wonderful adventure! Here’s Mr Dombey’s daughter lost in the streets, and robbed of her clothes by an old witch of a woman—found by me—brought home to our parlour to rest—look here!", "pos": 190163}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Good Heaven! It can’t be! Well, I—", "pos": 190511}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, nor anybody else. Nobody would, nobody could, you know. Here! just help me lift the little sofa near the fire, will you, Uncle Sol—take care of the plates—cut some dinner for her, will you, Uncle—throw those shoes under the grate. Miss Florence—put your feet on the fender to dry—how damp they are—here’s an adventure, Uncle, eh?—God bless my soul, how hot I am!", "pos": 190616}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Here, wait a minute, Uncle, till I run upstairs, and get another jacket on, and then I’ll be off. I say, Uncle, isn’t this an adventure?", "pos": 191546}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "My dear boy, it’s the most extraordinary—", "pos": 191723}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, but do, Uncle, please—do, Miss Florence—dinner, you know, Uncle.", "pos": 191967}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, yes, yes. I’ll take care of her, Wally! I understand. Pretty dear! Famished, of course. You go and get ready. Lord bless me! Sir Richard Whittington thrice Lord Mayor of London.", "pos": 192038}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "That’s capital! Now I’m off. I’ll just take a crust of bread with me, for I’m very hungry—and don’t wake her, Uncle Sol.", "pos": 192772}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No, no. Pretty child.", "pos": 192986}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Pretty, indeed! I never saw such a face, Uncle Sol. Now I’m off.", "pos": 193026}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "That’s right,", "pos": 193109}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I say, Uncle Sol,", "pos": 193157}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Here he is again,", "pos": 193224}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "How does she look now?", "pos": 193258}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Quite happy,", "pos": 193283}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "That’s famous! now I’m off.", "pos": 193312}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I hope you are,", "pos": 193342}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I say, Uncle Sol,", "pos": 193385}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Here he is again!", "pos": 193444}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "We met Mr Carker the Junior in the street, queerer than ever. He bade me good-bye, but came behind us here—there’s an odd thing!—for when we reached the shop door, I looked round, and saw him going quietly away, like a servant who had seen me home, or a faithful dog. How does she look now, Uncle?", "pos": 193478}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Pretty much the same as before, Wally,", "pos": 193778}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "That’s right. Now I am off!", "pos": 193838}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh! I beg your pardon, Sir, but I’m happy to say it’s all right, Sir. Miss Dombey’s found!", "pos": 194790}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I told you, Louisa, that she would certainly be found. Let the servants know that no further steps are necessary. This boy who brings the information, is young Gay, from the office. How was my daughter found, Sir? I know how she was lost. But how was she found? Who found her?", "pos": 195107}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Why, I believe I found Miss Dombey, Sir, at least I don’t know that I can claim the merit of having exactly found her, Sir, but I was the fortunate instrument of—", "pos": 195531}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What do you mean, Sir, by not having exactly found my daughter, and by being a fortunate instrument? Be plain and coherent, if you please. You hear this, girl? Take what is necessary, and return immediately with this young man to fetch Miss Florence home. Gay, you will be rewarded to-morrow.", "pos": 195720}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh! thank you, Sir. You are very kind. I’m sure I was not thinking of any reward, Sir.", "pos": 196356}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You are a boy, and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don’t undo it. Louisa, please to give the lad some wine.", "pos": 196460}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Good-night! You have been very good to me. Good-night, Walter! Good-bye!", "pos": 197564}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Good-bye!", "pos": 197763}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I’ll never forget you. No! indeed I never will. Good-bye, Walter! Where’s Walter? Good-night, Walter! Good-bye, Walter! Shake hands once more, Walter!", "pos": 197811}
{"speaker": "Susan's fellow-servant", "text": "for Mrs Richards. Mrs Richards", "pos": 198681}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "kissed her once upon the forehead, and cautioned her not to run away again, or wander anywhere with treacherous attendants.", "pos": 198887}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Ah, Richards! It would have been much more satisfactory to those who wish to think well of their fellow creatures, and much more becoming in you, if you had shown some proper feeling, in time, for the little child that is now going to be prematurely deprived of its natural nourishment.", "pos": 199470}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Cut off, from one common fountain!", "pos": 199789}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "If it was my ungrateful case, and I had your reflections, Richards, I should feel as if the Charitable Grinders’ dress would blight my child, and the education choke him.", "pos": 199867}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Louisa! It is not necessary to prolong these observations. The woman is discharged and paid. You leave this house, Richards, for taking my son—my son, into haunts and into society which are not to be thought of without a shudder. As to the accident which befel Miss Florence this morning, I regard that as, in one great sense, a happy and fortunate circumstance; inasmuch as, but for that occurrence, I never could have known—and from your own lips too—of what you had been guilty. I think, Louisa, the other nurse, the young person, being so much younger, and necessarily influenced by Paul’s nurse, may remain. Have the goodness to direct that this woman’s coach is paid to to Staggs’s Gardens.", "pos": 200293}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "something so truly military; native,", "pos": 204238}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Joey B., Sir, is worth a dozen of you. If you had a few more of the Bagstock breed among you, Sir, you’d be none the worse for it. Old Joe, Sir, needn’t look far for a wife even now, if he was on the look-out; but he’s hard-hearted, Sir, is Joe—he’s tough, Sir, tough, and de-vilish sly!", "pos": 207507}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Good morning, Ma’am,", "pos": 208798}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Good morning, Sir,", "pos": 208936}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Joe Bagstock, Ma’am, has not had the happiness of bowing to you at your window, for a considerable period. Joe has been hardly used, Ma’am. His sun has been behind a cloud. Joe’s luminary has been out of town, Ma’am, perhaps,", "pos": 208985}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I? out of town? oh no, I have not been out of town. I have been much engaged lately. My time is nearly all devoted to some very intimate friends. I am afraid I have none to spare, even now. Good morning, Sir!", "pos": 209335}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Why, damme, Sir, six months ago, the woman loved the ground Josh Bagstock walked on. What’s the meaning of it? But you won’t catch Joe, Ma’am. He’s tough, Ma’am, tough, is J.B. Tough, and de-vilish sly!", "pos": 209781}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "It’s a Baby, Sir, for fifty thousand pounds!", "pos": 212026}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "You’ll quite win my brother Paul’s heart, and that’s the truth, my dear. He grows more like Paul every day,", "pos": 213392}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "His mother, my dear, whose acquaintance I was to have made through you, does he at all resemble her?", "pos": 213710}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 213830}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "She was—she was pretty, I believe?", "pos": 213860}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Why, poor dear Fanny was interesting. Certainly interesting. She had not that air of commanding superiority which one would somehow expect, almost as a matter of course, to find in my brother’s wife; nor had she that strength and vigour of mind which such a man requires. But she was pleasing: extremely so. And she meant!—oh, dear, how well poor Fanny meant!", "pos": 213916}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You Angel! You Picture of your own Papa!", "pos": 214380}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Papa! what’s money?", "pos": 222961}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What is money, Paul? Money?", "pos": 223111}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, what is money?", "pos": 223156}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Gold, and silver, and copper. Guineas, shillings, half-pence. You know what they are?", "pos": 223635}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh yes, I know what they are. I don’t mean that, Papa. I mean what’s money after all?", "pos": 223723}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What is money after all!", "pos": 223910}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I mean, Papa, what can it do?", "pos": 224088}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You’ll know better by-and-by, my man. Money, Paul, can do anything.", "pos": 224349}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Anything, Papa?", "pos": 224802}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes. Anything—almost,", "pos": 224820}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Anything means everything, don’t it, Papa?", "pos": 224860}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It includes it: yes,", "pos": 224985}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why didn’t money save me my Mama? It isn’t cruel, is it?", "pos": 225024}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Cruel! No. A good thing can’t be cruel.", "pos": 225105}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If it’s a good thing, and can do anything. I wonder why it didn’t save me my Mama.", "pos": 225221}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It can’t make me strong and quite well, either, Papa; can it?", "pos": 226892}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Why, you are strong and quite well. Are you not? You are as strong and well as such little people usually are? Eh?", "pos": 227015}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Florence is older than I am, but I’m not as strong and well as Florence. I know, and I believe that when Florence was as little as me, she could play a great deal longer at a time without tiring herself. I am so tired sometimes, and my bones ache so (Wickam says it’s my bones), that I don’t know what to do.", "pos": 227286}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Ay! But that’s at night, little people should be tired at night, for then they sleep well.", "pos": 227759}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, it’s not at night, Papa, it’s in the day; and I lie down in Florence’s lap, and she sings to me. At night I dream about such cu-ri-ous things!", "pos": 227953}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I want Florence to come for me,", "pos": 228751}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Won’t you come with your poor Nurse Wickam, Master Paul?", "pos": 228796}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, I won’t,", "pos": 228899}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "For the child is hardly, as stout as I could wish.", "pos": 230472}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul, with your usual happy discrimination, which I am weak enough to envy you, every time I am in your company; and so I think is Miss Tox.", "pos": 230543}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh my dear! how could it be otherwise? Presumptuous as it is to aspire to such a level; still, if the bird of night may—but I’ll not trouble Mr Dombey with the sentiment. It merely relates to the Bulbul.", "pos": 230716}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "With your usual happy discrimination, my dear Paul, you have hit the point at once. Our darling is altogether as stout as we could wish. The fact is, that his mind is too much for him. His soul is a great deal too large for his frame. I am sure the way in which that dear child talks! no one would believe. His expressions, Lucretia, only yesterday upon the subject of Funerals!", "pos": 231037}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am afraid, that some of those persons upstairs suggest improper subjects to the child. He was speaking to me last night about his—about his Bones. What on earth has anybody to do with the—with the—Bones of my son? He is not a living skeleton, I suppose.", "pos": 231475}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Very far from it,", "pos": 231837}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I hope so. Funerals again! who talks to the child of funerals? We are not undertakers, or mutes, or grave-diggers, I believe.", "pos": 231902}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Very far from it,", "pos": 232054}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Then who puts such things into his head? Really I was quite dismayed and shocked last night. Who puts such things into his head, Louisa?", "pos": 232141}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul, it is of no use inquiring. I do not think, I will tell you candidly that Wickam is a person of very cheerful spirit, or what one would call a—", "pos": 232298}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "A daughter of Momus,", "pos": 232501}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Exactly so, but she is exceedingly attentive and useful, and not at all presumptuous; indeed I never saw a more biddable woman. I would say that for her, if I was put upon my trial before a Court of Justice.", "pos": 232551}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well! you are not put upon your trial before a Court of Justice, at present, Louisa, and therefore it don’t matter.", "pos": 232779}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul. I must be spoken to kindly, or there is an end of me,", "pos": 232928}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I was inquiring, Louisa, about Paul’s health and actual state.", "pos": 233190}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "If the dear child, is a little weakened by that last attack, and is not in quite such vigorous health as we could wish; and if he has some temporary weakness in his system, and does occasionally seem about to lose, for the moment, the use of his—", "pos": 233327}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "members.", "pos": 233888}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Members!", "pos": 233899}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I think the medical gentleman mentioned legs this morning, my dear Louisa, did he not?", "pos": 233930}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Why, of course he did, my love. How can you ask me? You heard him. I say, if our dear Paul should lose, for the moment, the use of his legs, these are casualties common to many children at his time of life, and not to be prevented by any care or caution. The sooner you understand that, Paul, and admit that, the better. If you have any doubt as to the amount of care, and caution, and affection, and self-sacrifice, that has been bestowed upon little Paul, I should wish to refer the question to your medical attendant, or to any of your dependants in this house. Call Towlinson. I believe he has no prejudice in our favour; quite the contrary. I should wish to hear what accusation Towlinson can make!", "pos": 234034}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Surely you must know, Louisa,", "pos": 234800}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I am glad to hear it, Paul, but really you are very odd, and sometimes talk very strangely, though without meaning it, I know. If your dear boy’s soul is too much for his body, Paul, you should remember whose fault that is—who he takes after, I mean—and make the best of it. He’s as like his Papa as he can be. People have noticed it in the streets. The very beadle, I am informed, observed it, so long ago as at his christening. He’s a very respectable man, with children of his own. He ought to know.", "pos": 234947}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr Pilkins saw Paul this morning, I believe?", "pos": 235470}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Yes, he did. Miss Tox and myself were present. Miss Tox and myself are always present. We make a point of it. Mr Pilkins has seen him for some days past, and a very clever man I believe him to be. He says it is nothing to speak of; which I can confirm, if that is any consolation; but he recommended, today, sea-air. Very wisely, Paul, I feel convinced.", "pos": 235532}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Sea-air,", "pos": 235911}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "There is nothing to be made uneasy by, in that. My George and Frederick were both ordered sea-air, when they were about his age; and I have been ordered it myself a great many times. I quite agree with you, Paul, that perhaps topics may be incautiously mentioned upstairs before him, which it would be as well for his little mind not to expatiate upon; but I really don’t see how that is to be helped, in the case of a child of his quickness. If he were a common child, there would be nothing in it. I must say I think, with Miss Tox, that a short absence from this house, the air of Brighton, and the bodily and mental training of so judicious a person as Mrs Pipchin for instance—", "pos": 235965}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Who is Mrs Pipchin, Louisa?", "pos": 236668}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Mrs Pipchin, my dear Paul, is an elderly lady—Miss Tox knows her whole history—who has for some time devoted all the energies of her mind, with the greatest success, to the study and treatment of infancy, and who has been extremely well connected. Her husband broke his heart in—how did you say her husband broke his heart, my dear? I forget the precise circumstances.", "pos": 236789}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "In pumping water out of the Peruvian Mines,", "pos": 237182}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Not being a Pumper himself, of course, but having invested money in the speculation, which failed. I believe that Mrs Pipchin’s management of children is quite astonishing. I have heard it commended in private circles ever since I was—dear me—how high!", "pos": 237246}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Perhaps I should say of Mrs Pipchin, my dear Sir, having been so pointedly referred to, that the encomium which has been passed upon her by your sweet sister is well merited. Many ladies and gentleman, now grown up to be interesting members of society, have been indebted to her care. The humble individual who addresses you was once under her charge. I believe juvenile nobility itself is no stranger to her establishment.", "pos": 237779}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Do I understand that this respectable matron keeps an establishment, Miss Tox?", "pos": 238251}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Why, I really don’t know, whether I am justified in calling it so. It is not a Preparatory School by any means. Should I express my meaning, if I designated it an infantine Boarding-House of a very select description?", "pos": 238364}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "On an exceedingly limited and particular scale,", "pos": 238648}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh! Exclusion itself!", "pos": 238749}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Supposing we should decide, on to-morrow’s inquiries, to send Paul down to Brighton to this lady, who would go with him?", "pos": 239623}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I don’t think you could send the child anywhere at present without Florence, my dear Paul. It’s quite an infatuation with him. He’s very young, you know, and has his fancies.", "pos": 239789}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Anybody else, Louisa?", "pos": 240114}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Wickam, of course. Wickam would be quite sufficient, I should say. Paul being in such hands as Mrs Pipchin’s, you could hardly send anybody who would be a further check upon her. You would go down yourself once a week at least, of course.", "pos": 240196}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Of course,", "pos": 240460}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Well, Sir, how do you think you shall like me?", "pos": 244825}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I don’t think I shall like you at all. I want to go away. This isn’t my house.", "pos": 244902}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "No. It’s mine,", "pos": 244999}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a very nasty one,", "pos": 245038}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "There’s a worse place in it than this though, where we shut up our bad boys.", "pos": 245074}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Has he ever been in it?", "pos": 245173}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "a smell of building;", "pos": 248297}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You,", "pos": 251380}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "And what are you thinking about me?", "pos": 251425}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m thinking how old you must be,", "pos": 251482}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "You mustn’t say such things as that, young gentleman. That’ll never do.", "pos": 251529}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 251624}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Because it’s not polite,", "pos": 251647}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not polite?", "pos": 251704}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "No.", "pos": 251729}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s not polite, to eat all the mutton chops and toast", "pos": 251735}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Wickam, is a wicked, impudent, bold-faced hussy.", "pos": 251831}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 251917}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Never you mind, Sir. Remember the story of the little boy that was gored to death by a mad bull for asking questions.", "pos": 251947}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If the bull was mad, how did he know that the boy had asked questions? Nobody can go and whisper secrets to a mad bull. I don’t believe that story.", "pos": 252091}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "You don’t believe it, Sir?", "pos": 252254}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No,", "pos": 252313}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Not if it should happen to have been a tame bull, you little Infidel?", "pos": 252330}
{"speaker": "Berry", "text": "What a pretty fellow he is when he’s asleep!", "pos": 255132}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Ah! He need be.", "pos": 255272}
{"speaker": "Berry", "text": "Why, he’s not ugly when he’s awake,", "pos": 255311}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "No, Ma’am. Oh, no. No more was my Uncle’s Betsey Jane. My Uncle’s wife, died just like his Mama. My Uncle’s child took on just as Master Paul do.", "pos": 255365}
{"speaker": "Berry", "text": "Took on! You don’t think he grieves for his Mama, sure? He can’t remember anything about her, you know, Mrs Wickam. It’s not possible.", "pos": 255685}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "No, Ma’am. No more did my Uncle’s child. But my Uncle’s child said very strange things sometimes, and looked very strange, and went on very strange, and was very strange altogether. My Uncle’s child made people’s blood run cold, some times, she did!", "pos": 255875}
{"speaker": "Berry", "text": "How?", "pos": 256145}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "I wouldn’t have sat up all night alone with Betsey Jane! not if you’d have put Wickam into business next morning for himself. I couldn’t have done it, Miss Berry. Betsey Jane, was as sweet a child as I could wish to see. I couldn’t wish to see a sweeter. Everything that a child could have in the way of illnesses, Betsey Jane had come through. The cramps was as common to her, as biles is to yourself, Miss Berry. But Betsey Jane, had been minded, in her cradle, by her departed mother. I couldn’t say how, nor I couldn’t say when, nor I couldn’t say whether the dear child knew it or not, but Betsey Jane had been watched by her mother, Miss Berry!", "pos": 256165}
{"speaker": "Miss Berry", "text": "Nonsense!", "pos": 257340}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "You may say nonsense! I ain’t offended, Miss. I hope you may be able to think in your own conscience that it is nonsense; you’ll find your spirits all the better for it in this—you’ll excuse my being so free—in this burying-ground of a place; which is wearing of me down. Master Paul’s a little restless in his sleep. Pat his back, if you please.", "pos": 257401}
{"speaker": "Berry", "text": "Of course you think, that he has been nursed by his mother, too?", "pos": 257750}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Betsey Jane, was put upon as that child has been put upon, and changed as that child has changed. I have seen her sit, often and often, think, think, thinking, like him. I have seen her look, often and often, old, old, old, like him. I have heard her, many a time, talk just like him. I consider that child and Betsey Jane on the same footing entirely, Miss Berry.", "pos": 257864}
{"speaker": "Berry", "text": "Is your Uncle’s child alive?", "pos": 258279}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Yes, Miss, she is alive, and is married to a silver-chaser. Oh yes, Miss, SHE is alive. I wouldn’t wish to make you uneasy. Don’t ask me. She took fancies to people; whimsical fancies, some of them; others, affections that one might expect to see—only stronger than common. They all died. Remember my words, Miss Berry, and be thankful that Master Paul is not too fond of you. I am, that he’s not too fond of me, I assure you; though there isn’t much to live for—you’ll excuse my being so free—in this jail of a house!", "pos": 258323}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "He’s asleep now, my dear, you’d better go to bed again. Don’t you feel cold?", "pos": 260398}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, nurse. Not at all.", "pos": 260510}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Ah! we shall be cold enough, some of us, by and by!", "pos": 260562}
{"speaker": "Wickam", "text": "Good-night, Miss! Good-night! Your aunt is an old lady, Miss Berry, and it’s what you must have looked for, often.", "pos": 260806}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Go away, if you please. Thank you, but I don’t want you. I am very well, I thank you. But you had better go and play, if you please. We don’t want any others, do we? Kiss me, Floy. Floy, where’s India, where that boy’s friends live?", "pos": 262861}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, it’s a long, long distance off,", "pos": 263777}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Weeks off?", "pos": 263862}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes dear. Many weeks’ journey, night and day.", "pos": 263887}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If you were in India, Floy. I should—what is it that Mama did? I forget.", "pos": 263935}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Loved me!", "pos": 264056}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, no. Don’t I love you now, Floy? What is it?—Died. If you were in India, I should die, Floy. Oh! I am a great deal better now! I don’t mean that. I mean that I should die of being so sorry and so lonely, Floy! I want to know what it says. The sea” Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying? Yes, yes. But I know that they are always saying something. Always the same thing. What place is over there? I don’t mean that: he meant further away—farther away!", "pos": 264087}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Uncle Sol. I don’t think you’re well. You haven’t eaten any breakfast. I shall bring a doctor to you, if you go on like this.", "pos": 271195}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "He can’t give me what I want, my boy. At least he is in good practice if he can—and then he wouldn’t.", "pos": 271338}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "What is it, Uncle? Customers?", "pos": 271460}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ay. Customers would do.", "pos": 271492}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Confound it, Uncle! when I see the people going up and down the street in shoals all day, and passing and re-passing the shop every minute, by scores, I feel half tempted to rush out, collar somebody, bring him in, and make him buy fifty pounds’ worth of instruments for ready money. What are you looking in at the door for?— That’s no use. I could do that. Come in and buy it! There he goes! That’s the way with ’em all. But, Uncle—I say, Uncle Sol Don’t be cast down. Don’t be out of spirits, Uncle. When orders do come, they’ll come in such a crowd, you won’t be able to execute ’em.", "pos": 271551}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I shall be past executing ’em, whenever they come, my boy. They’ll never come to this shop again, till I am out of t.", "pos": 272579}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I say, Uncle! You musn’t really, you know! Don’t! There’s nothing more than usual the matter; is there, Uncle? Be open with me, Uncle, if there is, and tell me all about it.", "pos": 272725}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No, no, no. More than usual? No, no. What should there be the matter more than usual?", "pos": 273147}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "That’s what I want to know, and you ask me! I’ll tell you what, Uncle, when I see you like this, I am quite sorry that I live with you. Yes. Though nobody ever was happier than I am and always have been with you, I am quite sorry that I live with you, when I see you with anything in your mind.", "pos": 273310}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I am a little dull at such times, I know,", "pos": 273659}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "What I mean, Uncle Sol. What I mean, Uncle Sol, is, that then I feel you ought to have, sitting here and pouring out the tea instead of me, a nice little dumpling of a wife, you know,—a comfortable, capital, cosy old lady, who was just a match for you, and knew how to manage you, and keep you in good heart. Here am I, as loving a nephew as ever was (I am sure I ought to be!) but I am only a nephew, and I can’t be such a companion to you when you’re low and out of sorts as she would have made herself, years ago, though I’m sure I’d give any money if I could cheer you up. And so I say, when I see you with anything on your mind, that I feel quite sorry you haven’t got somebody better about you than a blundering young rough-and-tough boy like me, who has got the will to console you, Uncle, but hasn’t got the way—hasn’t got the way,", "pos": 273747}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Wally, my dear boy, if the cosy little old lady had taken her place in this parlour five and forty years ago, I never could have been fonder of her than I am of you.", "pos": 274714}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I know that, Uncle Sol. Lord bless you, I know that. But you wouldn’t have had the whole weight of any uncomfortable secrets if she had been with you, because she would have known how to relieve you of ’em, and I don’t.", "pos": 274898}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, yes, you do,", "pos": 275139}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Well then, what’s the matter, Uncle Sol? Come! What’s the matter? All I can say is, Uncle Sol, that if there is—", "pos": 275190}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "But there isn’t,", "pos": 275516}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Very well. Then I’ve no more to say; and that’s lucky, for my time’s up for going to business. I shall look in by-and-by when I’m out, to see how you get on, Uncle. And mind, Uncle! I’ll never believe you again, and never tell you anything more about Mr Carker the Junior, if I find out that you have been deceiving me!", "pos": 275549}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Well, Uncle Sol! How are you now? Is there anything the matter?", "pos": 278657}
{"speaker": "Mr Brogley", "text": "No, no. There’s nothing the matter. Don’t let it put you out of the way. The fact is, there’s a little payment on a bond debt —three hundred and seventy odd, overdue: and I’m in possession.", "pos": 279013}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "In possession!", "pos": 279306}
{"speaker": "Mr Brogley", "text": "Ah! It’s an execution. That’s what it is. Don’t let it put you out of the way. I come myself, because of keeping it quiet and sociable. You know me. It’s quite private.", "pos": 279364}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Uncle Sol!", "pos": 279677}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Wally, my boy. It’s the first time. Such a calamity never happened to me before. I’m an old man to begin.", "pos": 279707}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Uncle Sol! Pray! oh don’t! For God’s sake don’t do that. Mr Brogley, what shall I do?", "pos": 280041}
{"speaker": "Mr Brogley", "text": "I should recommend you looking up a friend or so, and talking it over.", "pos": 280212}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "To be sure! Certainly! Thankee. Captain Cuttle’s the man, Uncle. Wait till I run to Captain Cuttle. Keep your eye upon my Uncle, will you, Mr Brogley, and make him as comfortable as you can while I am gone? Don’t despair, Uncle Sol. Try and keep a good heart, there’s a dear fellow!", "pos": 280304}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r, my lad! Stand by and knock again. Hard! It’s washing day. Hard it is!", "pos": 283364}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Captain Cuttle’s at home, I know,", "pos": 283968}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Is he? In-deed!", "pos": 284043}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "He has just been speaking to me,", "pos": 284087}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Has he? Then p’raps you’ll give him Mrs MacStinger’s respects, and say that the next time he lowers himself and his lodgings by talking out of the winder she’ll thank him to come down and open the door too.", "pos": 284162}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I’ll mention it, if you’ll have the goodness to let me in, Ma’am.", "pos": 284502}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "A boy that can knock my door down, can get over that, I should hope!", "pos": 284770}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Never owed her a penny, Wal”r. Done her a world of good turns, and the children too. Vixen at times, though. Whew!", "pos": 285415}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I should go away, Captain Cuttle,", "pos": 285629}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Dursn’t do it, Wal”r. She’d find me out, wherever I went. Sit down. How’s Gills?", "pos": 285678}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "How’s Gills?", "pos": 286324}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh, Captain Cuttle!", "pos": 286538}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r, go afore, my lad. Sing out, ‘good-bye, Captain Cuttle,’ when you’re in the passage, and shut the door. Then wait at the corner of the street “till you see me.", "pos": 288100}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Uncle much hove down, Wal”r?", "pos": 289094}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I am afraid so. If you had seen him this morning, you would never have forgotten it.", "pos": 289175}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Walk fast, Wal”r, my lad, and walk the same all the days of your life. Overhaul the catechism for that advice, and keep it! Gills! Lay your head well to the wind, and we’ll fight through it. All you’ve got to do, is to lay your head well to the wind, and we’ll fight through it! what the damage was. Come! What do you make of it?", "pos": 289262}
{"speaker": "broker", "text": "Why, Lord help you! you don’t suppose that property’s of any use, do you?", "pos": 290643}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 290742}
{"speaker": "broker", "text": "Why? The amount’s three hundred and seventy, odd,", "pos": 290775}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Never mind, all’s fish that comes to your net, I suppose?", "pos": 290847}
{"speaker": "Mr Brogley", "text": "Certainly. But sprats ain’t whales, you know.", "pos": 290980}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Gills, what’s the bearings of this business? Who’s the creditor?", "pos": 291231}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Hush! Come away. Don’t speak before Wally. It’s a matter of security for Wally’s father—an old bond. I’ve paid a good deal of it, Ned, but the times are so bad with me that I can’t do more just now. I’ve foreseen it, but I couldn’t help it. Not a word before Wally, for all the world.", "pos": 291321}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You’ve got some money, haven’t you?", "pos": 291632}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, yes—oh yes—I’ve got some,", "pos": 291693}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "but I—the little I have got, isn’t convertible, Ned; it can’t be got at. I have been trying to do something with it for Wally, and I’m old fashioned, and behind the time. It’s here and there, and—and, in short, it’s as good as nowhere,", "pos": 291892}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I’m behind the time altogether, my dear Ned, a long way. It’s no use my lagging on so far behind it. The stock had better be sold—it’s worth more than this debt—and I had better go and die somewhere, on the balance. I haven’t any energy left. I don’t understand things. This had better be the end of it. Let ’em sell the stock and take him down,", "pos": 292507}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "and let us both be broken up together.", "pos": 292948}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And what d’ye mean to do with Wal”r? There, there! Sit ye down, Gills, sit ye down, and let me think o’ this. If I warn’t a man on a small annuity, that was large enough till today, I hadn’t need to think of it. But you only lay your head well to the wind, and you’re all right!", "pos": 292989}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r! I’ve got it.", "pos": 294194}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Have you, Captain Cuttle?", "pos": 294244}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Come this way, my lad. The stock’s the security. I’m another. Your governor’s the man to advance money.", "pos": 294308}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Mr Dombey!", "pos": 294434}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Look at him. Look at Gills. If they was to sell off these things now, he’d die of it. You know he would. We mustn’t leave a stone unturned—and there’s a stone for you.", "pos": 294492}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "A stone!—Mr Dombey!", "pos": 294673}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You run round to the office, first of all, and see if he’s there. Quick! I tell you what, Wal”r! We’ll go to Brighton. I’ll back you, my boy. I’ll back you, Wal”r. We’ll go to Brighton by the afternoon’s coach.", "pos": 294712}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "which", "pos": 295385}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "has been fifty to one in favour of Joey B., Sir, ever since his elder brother died of Yellow Jack in the West Indies.", "pos": 297117}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Would you, Ma’am, would you! Would you give Joey B. the go-by, Ma’am? Not yet, Ma’am, not yet! Damme, not yet, Sir. Joe is awake, Ma’am. Bagstock is alive, Sir. J. B. knows a move or two, Ma’am. Josh has his weather-eye open, Sir. You’ll find him tough, Ma’am. Tough, Sir, tough is Joseph. Tough, and de-vilish sly!", "pos": 298480}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "But my little friend here, Sir, makes a boy of me again: An old soldier, Sir—Major Bagstock, at your service—is not ashamed to confess it. Damme, Sir. I envy you. Excuse my freedom. An old campaigner, Sir, a smoke-dried, sun-burnt, used-up, invalided old dog of a Major, Sir, was not afraid of being condemned for his whim by a man like Mr Dombey. I have the honour of addressing Mr Dombey, I believe?", "pos": 300011}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am the present unworthy representative of that name, Major,", "pos": 300607}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By G—, Sir! it’s a great name. It’s a name, Sir, that is known and honoured in the British possessions abroad. It is a name, Sir, that a man is proud to recognise. There is nothing adulatory in Joseph Bagstock, Sir. His Royal Highness the Duke of York observed on more than one occasion, ‘there is no adulation in Joey. He is a plain old soldier is Joe. He is tough to a fault is Joseph:’ but it’s a great name, Sir. By the Lord, it’s a great name!", "pos": 300691}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You are good enough to rate it higher than it deserves, perhaps, Major,", "pos": 301315}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "No, Sir. No, Mr Dombey, let us understand each other. That is not the Bagstock vein, Sir. You don’t know Joseph B. He is a blunt old blade is Josh. No flattery in him, Sir. Nothing like it. My little friend here, Sir, will certify for Joseph Bagstock that he is a thorough-going, down-right, plain-spoken, old Trump, Sir, and nothing more. That boy, Sir, will live in history. That boy, Sir, is not a common production. Take care of him, Mr Dombey. Here is a boy here, Sir. Son of Bitherstone of Bengal. Bill Bitherstone formerly of ours. That boy’s father and myself, Sir, were sworn friends. Wherever you went, Sir, you heard of nothing but Bill Bitherstone and Joe Bagstock. Am I blind to that boy’s defects? By no means. He’s a fool, Sir.", "pos": 301409}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Really?", "pos": 302687}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "That is what he is, sir. He’s a fool. Joe Bagstock never minces matters. The son of my old friend Bill Bitherstone, of Bengal, is a born fool, Sir. My little friend is destined for a public school, I presume, Mr Dombey?", "pos": 302697}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am not quite decided. I think not. He is delicate.", "pos": 303026}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "If he’s delicate, Sir, you are right. None but the tough fellows could live through it, Sir, at Sandhurst. We put each other to the torture there, Sir. We roasted the new fellows at a slow fire, and hung ’em out of a three pair of stairs window, with their heads downwards. Joseph Bagstock, Sir, was held out of the window by the heels of his boots, for thirteen minutes by the college clock. But it made us what we were, Sir. We were iron, Sir, and it forged us. Are you remaining here, Mr Dombey?", "pos": 303103}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "I generally come down once a week, Major. I stay at the Bedford.", "pos": 303810}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "I shall have the honour of calling at the Bedford, Sir, if you’ll permit me. Joey B., Sir, is not in general a calling man, but Mr Dombey’s is not a common name. I am much indebted to my little friend, Sir, for the honour of this introduction. and the oldsters too, Sir, if you come to that,", "pos": 303904}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dearest Louisa, if I should seem at all reserved to Major Bagstock, or under any constraint with him, promise me not to notice it.", "pos": 305460}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Lucretia, what mystery is involved in this remarkable request? I must insist upon knowing.", "pos": 305694}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Since you are resolved to extort a confession from me, Louisa. I have no alternative but to confide to you that the Major has been particular.", "pos": 305817}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Particular!", "pos": 305989}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "The Major has long been very particular indeed, my love, in his attentions, occasionally they have been so very marked, that my position has been one of no common difficulty.", "pos": 306023}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Is he in good circumstances?", "pos": 306217}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I have every reason to believe, my dear—indeed I may say I know, that he is wealthy. He is truly military, and full of anecdote. I have been informed that his valour, when he was in active service, knew no bounds. I am told that he did all sorts of things in the Peninsula, with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Indies, my love, I really couldn’t undertake to say what he did not do.", "pos": 306268}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Very creditable to him indeed, extremely so; and you have given him no encouragement, my dear?", "pos": 306698}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "If I were to say, Louisa, that I never encouraged Major Bagstock slightly, I should not do justice to the friendship which exists between you and me. It is, perhaps, hardly in the nature of woman to receive such attentions as the Major once lavished upon myself without betraying some sense of obligation. But that is past—long past. Between the Major and me there is now a yawning chasm, and I will not feign to give encouragement, Louisa, where I cannot give my heart. My affections, but, Louisa, this is madness!", "pos": 306813}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Your family monopolises Joe’s light, Sir. Joe lives in darkness. Princess’s Place is changed into Kamschatka in the winter time. There is no ray of sun, Sir, for Joey B., now.", "pos": 307814}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Miss Tox is good enough to take a great deal of interest in Paul, Major,", "pos": 308040}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme Sir. I’m jealous of my little friend. I’m pining away Sir. The Bagstock breed is degenerating in the forsaken person of old Joe.", "pos": 308169}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Sly, Sir—sly, Sir—de-vil-ish sly!", "pos": 310028}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Would you, Ma’am, would you? Mrs Dombey, eh, Ma’am? I think not, Ma’am. Not while Joe B. can put a spoke in your wheel, Ma’am. J. B.“s even with you now, Ma’am. He isn’t altogether bowled out, yet, Sir, isn’t Bagstock. She’s deep, Sir, deep, but Josh is deeper. Wide awake is old Joe—broad awake, and staring, Sir!", "pos": 310701}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Papa! Papa! Here’s Walter! and he won’t come in.", "pos": 311558}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Who? What does she mean? What is this?", "pos": 311609}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter, Papa! Who found me when I was lost.", "pos": 311669}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Does she mean young Gay, Louisa? Really, this child’s manners have become very boisterous. She cannot mean young Gay, I think. See what it is, will you? Tell the boy to come in now. Now, Gay, what is the matter? Who sent you down here? Was there nobody else to come?", "pos": 311810}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I beg your pardon, Sir. I have not been sent. I have been so bold as to come on my own account, which I hope you’ll pardon when I mention the cause.", "pos": 312454}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What’s that? Who is that? I think you have made some mistake in the door, Sir.", "pos": 312778}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh, I’m very sorry to intrude with anyone, Sir, but this is—this is Captain Cuttle, Sir.", "pos": 312877}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r, my lad, stand by!", "pos": 312993}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Now, Gay. What have you got to say to me?", "pos": 313672}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r, standby!", "pos": 313850}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I am afraid, Sir, that I take a very great liberty in coming—indeed, I am sure I do. I should hardly have had the courage to ask to see you, Sir, even after coming down, I am afraid, if I had not overtaken Miss Dombey, and—", "pos": 313868}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well! Go on, if you please.", "pos": 314153}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay, ay. Well said! Go on, Wal”r.", "pos": 314324}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "It is entirely a private and personal matter, that has brought me here, Sir, and Captain Cuttle—", "pos": 314812}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Here!", "pos": 314942}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Who is a very old friend of my poor Uncle’s, and a most excellent man, Sir, was so good as to offer to come with me, which I could hardly refuse.", "pos": 315037}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, no, no; Of course not. No call for refusing. Go on, Wal”r.", "pos": 315269}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And therefore, Sir, therefore I have come, with him, Sir, to say that my poor old Uncle is in very great affliction and distress. That, through the gradual loss of his business, and not being able to make a payment, the apprehension of which has weighed very heavily upon his mind, months and months, as indeed I know, Sir, he has an execution in his house, and is in danger of losing all he has, and breaking his heart. And that if you would, in your kindness, and in your old knowledge of him as a respectable man, do anything to help him out of his difficulty, Sir, we never could thank you enough for it. It is a very large sum, Sir. More than three hundred pounds. My Uncle is quite beaten down by his misfortune, it lies so heavy on him; and is quite unable to do anything for his own relief. He doesn’t even know yet, that I have come to speak to you. You would wish me to say, Sir, exactly what it is I want. I really don’t know, Sir. There is my Uncle’s stock, on which I believe I may say, confidently, there are no other demands, and there is Captain Cuttle, who would wish to be security too. I—I hardly like to mention, such earnings as mine; but if you would allow them—accumulate—payment—advance—Uncle—frugal, honourable, old man.", "pos": 315371}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Half a loaf’s better than no bread, and the same remark holds good with crumbs. There’s a few. Annuity of one hundred pound premium also ready to be made over. If there is a man chock full of science in the world, it’s old Sol Gills. If there is a lad of promise—one flowing, with milk and honey—it’s his nevy!", "pos": 317488}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What was this debt contracted for? Who is the creditor?", "pos": 318574}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "He don’t know. I do. It came of helping a man that’s dead now, and that’s cost my friend Gills many a hundred pound already. More particulars in private, if agreeable.", "pos": 318662}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "People who have enough to do to hold their own way, had better be content with their own obligations and difficulties, and not increase them by engaging for other men. It is an act of dishonesty and presumption, too, great presumption; for the wealthy could do no more. Paul, come here! If you had money now— Look at me! If you had money now, as much money as young Gay has talked about; what would you do?", "pos": 318894}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Give it to his old Uncle,", "pos": 319624}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Lend it to his old Uncle, eh? Well! When you are old enough, you know, you will share my money, and we shall use it together.", "pos": 319667}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Dombey and Son,", "pos": 319817}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Dombey and Son. Would you like to begin to be Dombey and Son, now, and lend this money to young Gay’s Uncle?", "pos": 319895}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh! if you please, Papa! and so would Florence.", "pos": 320029}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Girls, have nothing to do with Dombey and Son. Would you like it?", "pos": 320092}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Papa, yes!", "pos": 320178}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Then you shall do it. Then you shall do it. And you see, Paul, how powerful money is, and how anxious people are to get it. Young Gay comes all this way to beg for money, and you, who are so grand and great, having got it, are going to let him have it, as a great favour and obligation.", "pos": 320196}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Give that, the first thing to-morrow morning, to Mr Carker. He will immediately take care that one of my people releases your Uncle from his present position, by paying the amount at issue; and that such arrangements are made for its repayment as may be consistent with your Uncle’s circumstances. You will consider that this is done for you by Master Paul. You will consider that it is done by Master Paul. I have explained that to him, and he understands it. I wish no more to be said.", "pos": 321221}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Sir, I think you have overlooked something. Pardon me, Mr Dombey, I think, in the nobility of your character, and its exalted scope, you have omitted a matter of detail.", "pos": 322196}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Indeed, Miss Tox!", "pos": 322376}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "The gentleman with the—Instrument has left upon the table, at your elbow—", "pos": 322412}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Good Heaven! Take these things away. I am obliged to you, Miss Tox; it is like your usual discretion. Have the goodness to take these things away, Sir!", "pos": 322633}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Will you never be a Dombey, my dear child!", "pos": 323764}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear aunt. Don’t be angry with me. I am so thankful to Papa!", "pos": 323873}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme, Sir, he’s a prince, is my friend Dombey in the City. I tell you what, Sir. If you had a few more men among you like old Joe Bagstock and my friend Dombey in the City, Sir, you’d do!", "pos": 326572}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "I hope, Miss Berry, that you’ll come into whatever little property there may be to leave. You deserve it, I am sure, for yours is a trying life. Though there don’t seem much worth coming into—you’ll excuse my being so open—in this dismal den.", "pos": 327550}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Berry’s very fond of you, ain’t she?", "pos": 329547}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 329663}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why?", "pos": 329688}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Why! How can you ask such things, Sir! why are you fond of your sister Florence?", "pos": 329707}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because she’s very good. There’s nobody like Florence.", "pos": 329828}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Well! and there’s nobody like me, I suppose.", "pos": 329898}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Ain’t there really though?", "pos": 329978}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "No,", "pos": 330079}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I am glad of that. That’s a very good thing.", "pos": 330104}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Pipchin. How do you do?", "pos": 331496}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Thank you, Sir. I am pretty well, considering. I can’t expect, Sir, to be very well, but such health as I have, I am grateful for.", "pos": 331764}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Pipchin, I have taken the liberty of calling, to consult you in reference to my son. I have had it in my mind to do so for some time past; but have deferred it from time to time, in order that his health might be thoroughly re-established. You have no misgivings on that subject, Mrs Pipchin?", "pos": 332270}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Brighton has proved very beneficial, Sir. Very beneficial, indeed.", "pos": 332569}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I purpose, his remaining at Brighton. But, but possibly that he should now make a change, and lead a different kind of life here. In short, Mrs Pipchin, that is the object of my visit. My son is getting on, Mrs Pipchin. Really, he is getting on. Six years old! Dear me, six will be changed to sixteen, before we have time to look about us.", "pos": 332662}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Ten years, is a long time.", "pos": 333705}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It depends on circumstances, at all events, Mrs Pipchin, my son is six years old, and there is no doubt, I fear, that in his studies he is behind many children of his age—or his youth, his youth is a more appropriate expression. Now, Mrs Pipchin, instead of being behind his peers, my son ought to be before them; far before them. There is an eminence ready for him to mount upon. There is nothing of chance or doubt in the course before my son. His way in life was clear and prepared, and marked out before he existed. The education of such a young gentleman must not be delayed. It must not be left imperfect. It must be very steadily and seriously undertaken, Mrs Pipchin.", "pos": 333857}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Well, Sir. I can say nothing to the contrary.", "pos": 334651}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I was quite sure, Mrs Pipchin, that a person of your good sense could not, and would not.", "pos": 334719}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "There is a great deal of nonsense—and worse—talked about young people not being pressed too hard at first, and being tempted on, and all the rest of it, Sir. It never was thought of in my time, and it has no business to be thought of now. My opinion is ‘keep ’em at it’.", "pos": 334846}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "My good madam, you have not acquired your reputation undeservedly; and I beg you to believe, Mrs Pipchin, that I am more than satisfied with your excellent system of management, and shall have the greatest pleasure in commending it whenever my poor commendation— can be of any service. I have been thinking of Doctor Blimber’s, Mrs Pipchin.", "pos": 335176}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "My neighbour, Sir? I believe the Doctor’s is an excellent establishment. I’ve heard that it’s very strictly conducted, and there is nothing but learning going on from morning to night.", "pos": 335633}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And it’s very expensive,", "pos": 335840}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "And it’s very expensive, Sir,", "pos": 335884}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I have had some communication with the Doctor, Mrs Pipchin, and he does not consider Paul at all too young for his purpose. He mentioned several instances of boys in Greek at about the same age. If I have any little uneasiness in my own mind, Mrs Pipchin, on the subject of this change, it is not on that head. My son not having known a mother has gradually concentrated much—too much—of his childish affection on his sister. Whether their separation—", "pos": 336027}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Hoity-toity! If she don’t like it, Mr Dombey, she must be taught to lump it.", "pos": 336597}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "He, my good madam, he.", "pos": 337110}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "It was so classical,", "pos": 343792}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Now, Paul. This is the way indeed to be Dombey and Son, and have money. You are almost a man already.", "pos": 345810}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Almost,", "pos": 345944}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Doctor Blimber is at home, I believe?", "pos": 346214}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "How dare you laugh behind the gentleman’s back? And what do you take me for?", "pos": 346604}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "I ain’t a laughing at nobody, and I’m sure I don’t take you for nothing, Ma’am,", "pos": 346703}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "A pack of idle dogs! only fit to be turnspits. Go and tell your master that Mr Dombey’s here, or it’ll be worse for you! You’re laughing again, Sir,", "pos": 346827}
{"speaker": "Young man", "text": "I ain’t. I never see such a thing as this!", "pos": 347232}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What is the matter, Mrs Pipchin? Softly! Pray!", "pos": 347325}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Oh! he was a precious fellow", "pos": 347499}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "And how do you do, Sir? and how is my little friend? how, is, my, lit, tle, friend? Ha! Now I see my little friend. How do you do, my little friend?", "pos": 347913}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "how, is, my, lit, tle, friend?", "pos": 348876}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Very well, I thank you, Sir,", "pos": 348940}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Ha! Shall we make a man of him?", "pos": 349035}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Do you hear, Paul?", "pos": 349092}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Shall we make a man of him?", "pos": 349149}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I had rather be a child,", "pos": 349200}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Indeed! Why?", "pos": 349241}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Mrs Pipchin,", "pos": 349759}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am really very sorry to see this.", "pos": 349814}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Come away from him, do, Miss Dombey,", "pos": 349852}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Never mind. Never mind; we shall substitute new cares and new impressions, Mr Dombey, very shortly. You would still wish my little friend to acquire—", "pos": 349909}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Everything, if you please, Doctor,", "pos": 350132}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Yes. Yes, exactly. Ha! We shall impart a great variety of information to our little friend, and bring him quickly forward, I daresay. I daresay. Quite a virgin soil, I believe you said, Mr Dombey?", "pos": 350197}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Except some ordinary preparation at home, and from this lady, except so far, Paul has, as yet, applied himself to no studies at all. That circumstance, indeed, Doctor Blimber, and the interview I have already had the pleasure of holding with you, renders any further explanation, and consequently, any further intrusion on your valuable time, so unnecessary, that—", "pos": 350584}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Now, Miss Dombey!", "pos": 351524}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Permit me, one moment. Allow me to present Mrs Blimber and my daughter; who will be associated with the domestic life of our young Pilgrim to Parnassus Mrs Blimber. Mr Dombey. My daughter Cornelia, Mr Dombey. Mr Dombey, my love, is so confiding as to—do you see our little friend?", "pos": 351567}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "Like a bee, Sir, about to plunge into a garden of the choicest flowers, and sip the sweets for the first time Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Terence, Plautus, Cicero. What a world of honey have we here. It may appear remarkable, Mr Dombey, in one who is a wife—the wife of such a husband—", "pos": 352400}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Hush, hush. Fie for shame.", "pos": 352722}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "Mr Dombey will forgive the partiality of a wife,", "pos": 352774}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Not at all:", "pos": 352886}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "And it may seem remarkable in one who is a mother also,", "pos": 352991}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And such a mother,", "pos": 353070}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "But really. I think if I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum!), I could have died contented.", "pos": 353178}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Who is that? Oh! Come in, Toots; come in. Mr Dombey, Sir. Quite a coincidence! Here we have the beginning and the end. Alpha and Omega. Our head boy, Mr Dombey. An addition to our little Portico, Toots. Mr Dombey’s son.", "pos": 354059}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How are you?", "pos": 354690}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Ask Mr Feeder, if you please, Toots, to prepare a few introductory volumes for Mr Dombey’s son, and to allot him a convenient seat for study. My dear, I believe Mr Dombey has not seen the dormitories.", "pos": 354816}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "If Mr Dombey will walk upstairs. I shall be more than proud to show him the dominions of the drowsy god.", "pos": 355038}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Don’t tell me, Sir; I know better. I hope, Mr Dombey, that the arrangements meet your approval.", "pos": 356017}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "They are excellent, Sir,", "pos": 356631}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Very fair, indeed,", "pos": 356674}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Pipchin, will, with your permission, Doctor and Mrs Blimber, visit Paul now and then.", "pos": 356699}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Whenever Mrs Pipchin pleases,", "pos": 356902}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "Always happy to see her,", "pos": 356955}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I think. I have given all the trouble I need, and may take my leave. Paul, my child. Good-bye.", "pos": 357000}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-bye, Papa.", "pos": 357165}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I shall see you soon, Paul. You are free on Saturdays and Sundays, you know.", "pos": 357887}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Papa. On Saturdays and Sundays.", "pos": 357966}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And you’ll try and learn a great deal here, and be a clever man, won’t you?", "pos": 358045}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’ll try,", "pos": 358141}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And you’ll soon be grown up now!", "pos": 358182}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh! very soon!", "pos": 358233}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "how, is, my, lit, tle, friend?", "pos": 359646}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Can anybody have the goodness to indicate any subject, in any direction, on which I am uninformed? I rather think not. Cornelia. Dombey will be your charge at first. Bring him on, Cornelia, bring him on.", "pos": 360619}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "How old are you, Dombey?", "pos": 361139}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Six. I haven’t been well. I have been a weak child. I couldn’t learn a Latin Grammar when I was out, every day, with old Glubb. I wish you’d tell old Glubb to come and see me, if you please.", "pos": 361185}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "What a dreadfully low name Unclassical to a degree! Who is the monster, child?", "pos": 361763}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What monster?", "pos": 361864}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "Glubb,", "pos": 361895}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’s no more a monster than you are,", "pos": 361946}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "What! Ay, ay, ay? Aha! What’s that?", "pos": 362000}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He’s a very nice old man, Ma’am. He used to draw my couch. He knows all about the deep sea, and the fish that are in it, and the great monsters that come and lie on rocks in the sun, and dive into the water again when they’re startled, blowing and splashing so, that they can be heard for miles. There are some creatures. I don’t know how many yards long, and I forget their names, but Florence knows, that pretend to be in distress; and when a man goes near them, out of compassion, they open their great jaws, and attack him. But all he has got to do, is to keep on turning as he runs away, and then, as they turn slowly, because they are so long, and can’t bend, he’s sure to beat them. And though old Glubb don’t know why the sea should make me think of my Mama that’s dead, or what it is that it is always saying—always saying! he knows a great deal about it. And I wish, that you’d let old Glubb come here to see me, for I know him very well, and he knows me.", "pos": 362187}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Ha! this is bad, but study will do much. Take him round the house, Cornelia, and familiarise him with his new sphere. Go with that young lady, Dombey.", "pos": 363434}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Heigh ho hum! Oh dear me, dear me! Ya-a-a-ah!", "pos": 368104}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Sit down, Dombey.", "pos": 368750}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you, Sir,", "pos": 368770}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "You’re a very small chap;", "pos": 368960}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Sir, I’m small. Thank you, Sir.", "pos": 369003}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Who’s your tailor?", "pos": 369123}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It’s a woman that has made my clothes as yet. My sister’s dressmaker.", "pos": 369199}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "My tailor’s Burgess and Co.. Fash’nable. But very dear. Your father’s regularly rich, ain’t he?", "pos": 369284}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Sir. He’s Dombey and Son.", "pos": 369532}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "And which?", "pos": 369578}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And Son, Sir,", "pos": 369607}
{"speaker": "Tozer", "text": "You sleep in my room, don’t you?", "pos": 370318}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Master Briggs?", "pos": 370437}
{"speaker": "Tozer", "text": "Tozer. Is yours a strong constitution? judging from Paul’s looks, and that it is a pity, for it need be. He then asked Paul if he were going to begin with Cornelia;", "pos": 370469}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "yes,", "pos": 370944}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "It is remarkable, Mr Feeder, that the Romans— It is remarkable, Mr Feeder, that the Romans, in those gorgeous and profuse entertainments of which we read in the days of the Emperors, when luxury had attained a height unknown before or since, and when whole provinces were ravaged to supply the splendid means of one Imperial Banquet—", "pos": 373078}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Johnson, take some water.", "pos": 373976}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "And when, Mr Feeder—", "pos": 374142}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "I beg your pardon, Sir. I beg your pardon, Doctor Blimber.", "pos": 374474}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "And when, when, Sir, as we read, and have no reason to doubt—incredible as it may appear to the vulgar—of our time—the brother of Vitellius prepared for him a feast, in which were served, of fish, two thousand dishes—", "pos": 374564}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Take some water, Johnson—dishes, Sir,", "pos": 374822}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Of various sorts of fowl, five thousand dishes.", "pos": 374878}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Or try a crust of bread,", "pos": 374928}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "And one dish, called, from its enormous dimensions, the Shield of Minerva, and made, among other costly ingredients, of the brains of pheasants—", "pos": 374971}
{"speaker": "Johnson", "text": "Ow, ow, ow!", "pos": 375209}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Woodcocks—", "pos": 375239}
{"speaker": "Johnson", "text": "Ow, ow, ow!", "pos": 375252}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "The sounds of the fish called scari—", "pos": 375266}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "You’ll burst some vessel in your head. You had better let it come.", "pos": 375305}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "And the spawn of the lamprey, brought from the Carpathian Sea, when we read of costly entertainments such as these, and still remember, that we have a Titus—", "pos": 375392}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "What would be your mother’s feelings if you died of apoplexy!", "pos": 375597}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "A Domitian—", "pos": 375677}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "And you’re blue, you know,", "pos": 375691}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "A Nero, a Tiberius, a Caligula, a Heliogabalus, and many more, it is, Mr Feeder—if you are doing me the honour to attend—remarkable; VERY remarkable, Sir— Gentlemen, rise for Grace! Cornelia, lift Dombey down Johnson will repeat to me tomorrow morning before breakfast, without book, and from the Greek Testament, the first chapter of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. We will resume our studies, Mr Feeder, in half-an-hour.", "pos": 375736}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Sir.", "pos": 378285}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "So am I,", "pos": 378297}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Gentlemen, we will resume our studies at seven to-morrow; Gentlemen, we will resume our studies at seven tomorrow,", "pos": 378826}
{"speaker": "Briggs", "text": "his head ached ready to split, and that he should wish himself dead if it wasn’t for his mother, and a blackbird he had at home.", "pos": 379174}
{"speaker": "Tozer", "text": "look out, for his turn would come to-morrow.", "pos": 379370}
{"speaker": "Briggs", "text": "Bother!", "pos": 380888}
{"speaker": "Tozer", "text": "Oh yes!", "pos": 380909}
{"speaker": "Young woman", "text": "where his mother was. Melia;", "pos": 381117}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Is that Dombey? Yes, Ma’am:", "pos": 381641}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Come in, Dombey. Now, Dombey,” I am going out for a constitutional.” These are yours, Dombey,", "pos": 381754}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "All of ’em, Ma’am?", "pos": 382567}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Yes, and Mr Feeder will look you out some more very soon, if you are as studious as I expect you will be, Dombey.", "pos": 382599}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you, Ma’am,", "pos": 382740}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "I am going out for a constitutional, and while I am gone, that is to say in the interval between this and breakfast, Dombey, I wish you to read over what I have marked in these books, and to tell me if you quite understand what you have got to learn. Don’t lose time, Dombey, for you have none to spare, but take them downstairs, and begin directly.", "pos": 382771}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Ma’am,", "pos": 383147}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Oh, Dombey, Dombey, this is really very careless!", "pos": 383456}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Now, Dombey,” How have you got on with those books?”", "pos": 384294}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Oh, Dombey, Dombey! this is very shocking.", "pos": 385104}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If you please. I think if I might sometimes talk a little to old Glubb, I should be able to do better.", "pos": 385170}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Nonsense, Dombey. I couldn’t hear of it. This is not the place for Glubbs of any kind. You must take the books down, I suppose, Dombey, one by one, and perfect yourself in the day’s instalment of subject A, before you turn at all to subject B. I am sorry to say, Dombey, that your education appears to have been very much neglected.", "pos": 385288}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "So Papa says, but I told you—I have been a weak child. Florence knows I have. So does Wickam.", "pos": 385644}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Who is Wickam?", "pos": 385757}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "She has been my nurse,", "pos": 385794}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "I must beg you not to mention Wickam to me, then. I couldn’t allow it.", "pos": 385834}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "You asked me who she was,", "pos": 385928}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Very well, but this is all very different indeed from anything of that sort, Dombey, and I couldn’t think of permitting it. As to having been weak, you must begin to be strong. And now take away the top book, if you please, Dombey, and return when you are master of the theme.", "pos": 385967}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Go on, Dombey!", "pos": 386843}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "See here, Susan. These are the names of the little books that Paul brings home to do those long exercises with, when he is so tired. I copied them last night while he was writing.", "pos": 389893}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Don’t show ’em to me, Miss Floy, if you please. I’d as soon see Mrs Pipchin.", "pos": 390087}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I want you to buy them for me, Susan, if you will, tomorrow morning. I have money enough,", "pos": 390185}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Why, goodness gracious me, Miss Floy, how can you talk like that, when you have books upon books already, and masterses and mississes a teaching of you everything continual, though my belief is that your Pa, Miss Dombey, never would have learnt you nothing, never would have thought of it, unless you’d asked him—when he couldn’t well refuse; but giving consent when asked, and offering when unasked, Miss, is quite two things; I may not have my objections to a young man’s keeping company with me, and when he puts the question, may say ‘yes,’ but that’s not saying ‘would you be so kind as like me.’", "pos": 390292}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "But you can buy me the books, Susan; and you will, when you know why I want them.", "pos": 390920}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well, Miss, and why do you want ’em? If it was to fling at Mrs Pipchin’s head, I’d buy a cart-load.", "pos": 391004}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Paul has a great deal too much to do, Susan. I am sure of it.", "pos": 391150}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "And well you may be, Miss, and make your mind quite easy that the willing dear is worked and worked away. If those is Latin legs,", "pos": 391231}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "give me English ones.", "pos": 391450}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am afraid he feels lonely and lost at Doctor Blimber’s, Susan,", "pos": 391474}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Ah. Oh, them ‘Blimbers’", "pos": 391582}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Don’t blame anyone. It’s a mistake.", "pos": 391650}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I say nothing about blame, Miss, for I know that you object, but I may wish, Miss, that the family was set to work to make new roads, and that Miss Blimber went in front and had the pickaxe.", "pos": 391705}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I think I could perhaps give Paul some help, Susan, if I had these books, and make the coming week a little easier to him. At least I want to try. So buy them for me, dear, and I will never forget how kind it was of you to do it!", "pos": 391994}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, Floy! how I love you! How I love you, Floy!", "pos": 394407}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And I you, dear!", "pos": 394478}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh! I am sure of that, Floy.", "pos": 394497}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How are you?", "pos": 398296}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Quite well, Sir, thank you,”", "pos": 398352}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Shake hands. How are you?", "pos": 398401}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Quite well, Sir, thank you.", "pos": 398620}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I say! what do you think about?", "pos": 398915}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh! I think about a great many things,", "pos": 399031}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Do you, though?", "pos": 399086}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "If you had to die,", "pos": 399170}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Don’t you think you would rather die on a moonlight night, when the sky was quite clear, and the wind blowing, as it did last night? I didn’t know about that.”", "pos": 399272}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not blowing, at least, but sounding in the air like the sea sounds in the shells. It was a beautiful night. When I had listened to the water for a long time, I got up and looked out. There was a boat over there, in the full light of the moon; a boat with a sail.", "pos": 399503}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Smugglers. or Preventive.", "pos": 399928}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "A boat with a sail, in the full light of the moon. The sail like an arm, all silver. It went away into the distance, and what do you think it seemed to do as it moved with the waves?", "pos": 400046}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Pitch,", "pos": 400248}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "It seemed to beckon, to beckon me to come!—There she is! There she is!", "pos": 400272}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Who?", "pos": 400473}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My sister Florence! looking up here, and waving her hand. She sees me—she sees me! Good-night, dear, good-night, good-night.", "pos": 400480}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Mr Dombey, to a man in your position from a man in mine, there is no show of subservience compatible with the transaction of business between us, that I should think sufficient. I frankly tell you, Sir, I give it up altogether. I feel that I could not satisfy my own mind; and Heaven knows, Mr Dombey, you can afford to dispense with the endeavour.", "pos": 408522}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "How do you do this morning?", "pos": 409600}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "How do you do, Carker?", "pos": 409753}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Coolish!", "pos": 409794}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Rather,", "pos": 409841}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Any news of the young gentleman who is so important to us all?", "pos": 409867}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes—not direct news—I hear he’s very well,", "pos": 409990}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Very well, and becoming a great scholar, no doubt?", "pos": 410110}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I hope so,", "pos": 410185}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Egad! Time flies!", "pos": 410218}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I think so, sometimes,", "pos": 410274}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! You! You have no reason to think so. One who sits on such an elevation as yours, and can sit there, unmoved, in all seasons—hasn’t much reason to know anything about the flight of time. It’s men like myself, who are low down and are not superior in circumstances, and who inherit new masters in the course of Time, that have cause to look about us. I shall have a rising sun to worship, soon.", "pos": 410346}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Time enough, time enough, Carker! Have you anything there for me?", "pos": 410764}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I don’t know that I need trouble you. You have a committee today at three, you know.", "pos": 410913}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And one at three, three-quarters,", "pos": 411056}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Catch you forgetting anything! If Mr Paul inherits your memory, he’ll be a troublesome customer in the House. One of you is enough.", "pos": 411109}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have an accurate memory of your own,", "pos": 411294}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! I! It’s the only capital of a man like me.", "pos": 411353}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Is Morfin here?", "pos": 411949}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Morfin’s here, humming musical recollections—of his last night’s quartette party, I suppose—through the walls between us, and driving me half mad. I wish he’d make a bonfire of his violoncello, and burn his music-books in it.", "pos": 412120}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You respect nobody, Carker, I think,", "pos": 412415}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "No? Well! Not many people, I believe. I wouldn’t answer perhaps, for more than one. Talking of Morfin, he reports a junior dead in the agency at Barbados, and proposes to reserve a passage in the Son and Heir—she’ll sail in a month or so—for the successor. You don’t care who goes, I suppose? We have nobody of that sort here. It’s no very precious appointment. I hope he may bestow it on some orphan nephew of a musical friend. It may perhaps stop his fiddle-playing, if he has a gift that way. Who’s that? Come in!", "pos": 412470}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I beg your pardon, Mr Carker. I didn’t know you were here, Sir. Mr Carker the junior, Sir—", "pos": 413641}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I thought, Sir, that you had been before requested not to drag Mr Carker the Junior into your conversation.", "pos": 414089}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I beg your pardon. I was only going to say that Mr Carker the Junior had told me he believed you were gone out, or I should not have knocked at the door when you were engaged with Mr Dombey. These are letters for Mr Dombey, Sir.", "pos": 414250}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Very well, Sir. Go about your business.", "pos": 414500}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You can leave the room, Sir!", "pos": 415347}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "These continual references to Mr Carker the Junior, are, to a man in my position, uttered before one in yours, so unspeakably distressing—", "pos": 415531}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Nonsense, Carker. You are too sensitive.", "pos": 415731}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am sensitive. If one in your position could by any possibility imagine yourself in my place: which you cannot: you would be so too.", "pos": 415799}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You want somebody to send to the West Indies, you were saying,", "pos": 416126}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 416222}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Send young Gay.", "pos": 416245}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Good, very good indeed. Nothing easier, 'Send young Gay.'", "pos": 416263}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Call him back. Gay. Here is a—", "pos": 416452}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "An opening,", "pos": 416634}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "In the West Indies. At Barbados. I am going to send you, to fill a junior situation in the counting-house at Barbados. Let your Uncle know from me, that I have chosen you to go to the West Indies.", "pos": 416704}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "West Indies.", "pos": 417090}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Somebody must go, and you are young and healthy, and your Uncle’s circumstances are not good. Tell your Uncle that you are appointed. You will not go yet. There will be an interval of a month—or two perhaps.", "pos": 417105}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Shall I remain there, Sir?", "pos": 417333}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Will you remain there, Sir! What do you mean? What does he mean, Carker?", "pos": 417379}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Live there, Sir,", "pos": 417517}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Certainly. That’s all. You will explain to him in good time about the usual outfit and so forth, Carker, of course. He needn’t wait, Carker.", "pos": 417553}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You needn’t wait, Gay,", "pos": 417771}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Unless. Unless he has anything to say.", "pos": 417834}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, Sir. I hardly know—I—I am much obliged, Sir.", "pos": 417972}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "He needn’t wait, Carker,", "pos": 418335}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Bring your friend Mr Carker the Junior to my room, Sir, if you please.", "pos": 418838}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "John Carker, what is the league between you and this young man, in virtue of which I am haunted and hunted by the mention of your name? Is it not enough for you, John Carker, that I am your near relation, and can’t detach myself from that—", "pos": 419458}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Say disgrace, James. You mean it, and have reason, say disgrace.", "pos": 419844}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "From that disgrace, but is the fact to be blurted out and trumpeted, and proclaimed continually in the presence of the very House! In moments of confidence too? Do you think your name is calculated to harmonise in this place with trust and confidence, John Carker?", "pos": 419988}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "No. No, James. God knows I have no such thought.", "pos": 420298}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What is your thought, then? and why do you thrust yourself in my way? Haven’t you injured me enough already?", "pos": 420371}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I have never injured you, James, wilfully.", "pos": 420502}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are my brother. That’s injury enough.", "pos": 420547}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I wish I could undo it, James.", "pos": 420611}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I wish you could and would.", "pos": 420644}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Mr Carker. Indeed, indeed, this is my fault solely. In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned Mr Carker the Junior much oftener than was necessary; and have allowed his name sometimes to slip through my lips, when it was against your expressed wish. But it has been my own mistake, Sir. We have never exchanged one word upon the subject—very few, indeed, on any subject. And it has not been all heedlessness on my part, Sir; for I have felt an interest in Mr Carker ever since I have been here, and have hardly been able to help speaking of him sometimes, when I have thought of him so much!", "pos": 421560}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are an excitable youth, Gay, and should endeavour to cool down a little now, for it would be unwise to encourage feverish predispositions. Be as cool as you can, Gay. Be as cool as you can. You might have asked Mr John Carker himself (if you have not done so) whether he claims to be, or is, an object of such strong interest.", "pos": 422693}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "James, do me justice. I have claimed nothing; and I claim nothing. Believe me, on my—", "pos": 423037}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Honour?", "pos": 423145}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "On my Me—on my fallen life! Believe me, I have held myself aloof, and kept alone. This has been unsought by me. I have avoided him and everyone.", "pos": 423231}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Indeed, you have avoided me, Mr Carker. I know it, to my disappointment and regret. When I first came here, and ever since, I am sure I have tried to be as much your friend, as one of my age could presume to be; but it has been of no use.", "pos": 423507}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "it will be of still less use, Gay, if you persist in forcing Mr John Carker’s name on people’s attention. That is not the way to befriend Mr John Carker. Ask him if he thinks it is.", "pos": 423881}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "It is no service to me. It only leads to such a conversation as the present, which I need not say I could have well spared. No one can be a better friend to me: than in forgetting me, and leaving me to go my way, unquestioned and unnoticed.", "pos": 424065}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Your memory not being retentive, Gay, of what you are told by others. I thought it well that you should be told this from the best authority. You are not likely to forget it now, I hope. That’s all, Gay. You can go.", "pos": 424400}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Think of me more leniently, if you can, James, when I tell you I have had—how could I help having, with my history, written here my whole heart awakened by my observation of that boy, Walter Gay. I saw in him when he first came here, almost my other self.", "pos": 425061}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Your other self!", "pos": 425374}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Not as I am, but as I was when I first came here too; as sanguine, giddy, youthful, inexperienced; flushed with the same restless and adventurous fancies; and full of the same qualities, fraught with the same capacity of leading on to good or evil.", "pos": 425429}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I hope not,", "pos": 425680}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "You strike me sharply; and your hand is steady, and your thrust is very deep. I imagined all this when he was a boy. I believed it. It was a truth to me. I saw him lightly walking on the edge of an unseen gulf where so many others walk with equal gaiety, and from which—", "pos": 425764}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "The old excuse. So many. Go on. Say, so many fall.", "pos": 426149}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "From which ONE traveller fell, who set forward, on his way, a boy like him, and missed his footing more and more, and slipped a little and a little lower; and went on stumbling still, until he fell headlong and found himself below a shattered man. Think what I suffered, when I watched that boy.", "pos": 426253}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You have only yourself to thank for it,", "pos": 426573}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Only myself,", "pos": 426637}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You have divided the shame,", "pos": 426722}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Ah, James. I have been, since then, a useful foil to you. You have trodden on me freely in your climbing up. Don’t spurn me with your heel! That’s all. I watched him with such trembling and such fear, as was some little punishment to me, until he passed the place where I first fell; and then, though I had been his father, I believe I never could have thanked God more devoutly. I didn’t dare to warn him, and advise him; but if I had seen direct cause, I would have shown him my example. I was afraid to be seen speaking with him, lest it should be thought I did him harm, and tempted him to evil, and corrupted him: or lest I really should. There may be such contagion in me; I don’t know. Piece out my history, in connexion with young Walter Gay, and what he has made me feel; and think of me more leniently, James, if you can.", "pos": 426858}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Mr Carker, pray let me thank you! Let me say how much I feel for you! How sorry I am, to have been the unhappy cause of all this! How I almost look upon you now as my protector and guardian! How very, very much, I feel obliged to you and pity you!", "pos": 428255}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Walter. I am far removed from you, and may I ever be. Do you know what I am?", "pos": 428509}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "What you are!", "pos": 429069}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It was begun, before my twenty-first birthday—led up to, long before, but not begun till near that time. I had robbed them when I came of age. I robbed them afterwards. Before my twenty-second birthday, it was all found out; and then, Walter, from all men’s society, I died. The House was very good to me. May Heaven reward the old man for his forbearance! This one, too, his son, who was then newly in the Firm, where I had held great trust! I was called into that room which is now his—I have never entered it since—and came out, what you know me. For many years I sat in my present seat, alone as now, but then a known and recognised example to the rest. They were all merciful to me, and I lived. Time has altered that part of my poor expiation; and I think, except the three heads of the House, there is no one here who knows my story rightly. Before the little boy grows up, and has it told to him, my corner may be vacant. I would rather that it might be so! This is the only change to me since that day, when I left all youth, and hope, and good men’s company, behind me in that room. God bless you, Walter! Keep you, and all dear to you, in honesty, or strike them dead!", "pos": 429152}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "last half", "pos": 435454}
{"speaker": "Cornelia Blimber", "text": "Dombey, I am going to send home your analysis.", "pos": 437346}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you, Ma’am,", "pos": 437395}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "You know what I mean, do you, Dombey?", "pos": 437430}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "No, Ma’am,", "pos": 437538}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "Dombey, Dombey. I begin to be afraid you are a sad boy. When you don’t know the meaning of an expression, why don’t you seek for information?", "pos": 437562}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mrs Pipchin told me I wasn’t to ask questions,", "pos": 437727}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "I must beg you not to mention Mrs Pipchin to me, on any account, Dombey. I couldn’t think of allowing it. The course of study here, is very far removed from anything of that sort. A repetition of such allusions would make it necessary for me to request to hear, without a mistake, before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, from Verbum personale down to simillimia cygno.", "pos": 437791}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I didn’t mean, Ma’am—", "pos": 438188}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "I must trouble you not to tell me that you didn’t mean, if you please, Dombey. That is a line of argument I couldn’t dream of permitting. Analysis of the character of P. Dombey. If my recollection serves me, the word analysis as opposed to synthesis, is thus defined by Walker. ‘The resolution of an object, whether of the senses or of the intellect, into its first elements.’ As opposed to synthesis, you observe. Now you know what analysis is, Dombey. Analysis, of the character of P. Dombey.’ I find that the natural capacity of Dombey is extremely good; and that his general disposition to study may be stated in an equal ratio. Thus, taking eight as our standard and highest number, I find these qualities in Dombey stated each at six three-fourths! Violence two. Selfishness two. Inclination to low company, as evinced in the case of a person named Glubb, originally seven, but since reduced. Gentlemanly demeanour four, and improving with advancing years. Now what I particularly wish to call your attention to, Dombey, is the general observation at the close of this analysis. It may be generally observed of Dombey, that his abilities and inclinations are good, and that he has made as much progress as under the circumstances could have been expected. But it is to be lamented of this young gentleman that he is singular (what is usually termed old-fashioned) in his character and conduct, and that, without presenting anything in either which distinctly calls for reprobation, he is often very unlike other young gentlemen of his age and social position.’ Now, Dombey. Now, Dombey, do you understand that?", "pos": 438231}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I think I do, Ma’am,", "pos": 440985}
{"speaker": "Miss Blimber", "text": "This analysis, you see, Dombey, is going to be sent home to your respected parent. It will naturally be very painful to him to find that you are singular in your character and conduct. It is naturally painful to us; for we can’t like you, you know, Dombey, as well as we could wish.", "pos": 441019}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Not so fond, not so fond as I am of Florence, of course; that could never be. You couldn’t expect that, could you, Ma’am?", "pos": 442707}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "Oh! the old-fashioned little soul!", "pos": 442971}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But I like everybody here very much, and I should grieve to go away, and think that anyone was glad that I was gone, or didn’t care.", "pos": 443041}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Bring him on, Cornelia! Bring him on!", "pos": 443499}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Aha, Dombey, there you are, are you? And there you are, too, Dombey. That’s yours.", "pos": 448132}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mine, Sir?", "pos": 448328}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Your invitation. Mr P. Dombey’s company at an early party on Wednesday Evening the Seventeenth Instant; and that the hour was half-past seven o’clock; and that the object was Quadrilles.", "pos": 448352}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Mr Toots’s company at an early party on Wednesday Evening the Seventeenth Instant, when the hour was half-past seven o’clock, and when the object was Quadrilles.", "pos": 448874}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Mr Briggs’s company, and of Mr Tozer’s company, and of every young gentleman’s company, was requested by Doctor and Mrs Blimber on the same genteel Occasion.", "pos": 449118}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "he had better not refer to the festive occasion, in the hearing of Doctor and Mrs Blimber; as these preliminaries, and the whole of the arrangements, were conducted on principles of classicality and high breeding; and that Doctor and Mrs Blimber on the one hand, and the young gentlemen on the other, were supposed, in their scholastic capacities, not to have the least idea of what was in the wind.", "pos": 449813}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Ah! Come, come! That’s well! How is my little friend now?", "pos": 451118}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh, quite well, thank you, Sir,", "pos": 451214}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Mrs Pipchin, don’t tell Florence!", "pos": 452862}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Don’t tell Florence what, my little Paul?", "pos": 452898}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "About me,", "pos": 453020}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "No, no,", "pos": 453043}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What do you think I mean to do when I grow up, Mrs Pipchin? I mean, to put my money all together in one Bank, never try to get any more, go away into the country with my darling Florence, have a beautiful garden, fields, and woods, and live there with her all my life!", "pos": 453071}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 453495}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes. That’s what I mean to do, when I— If I grow up,", "pos": 453524}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How are you now, Dombey?", "pos": 456741}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Cheer up, little Dombey!", "pos": 456768}
{"speaker": "The Apothecary", "text": "Yes, I think, Doctor Blimber, we may release this young gentleman from his books just now; the vacation being so very near at hand.", "pos": 457840}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "By all means. My love, you will inform Cornelia, if you please.", "pos": 457974}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "Assuredly,", "pos": 458063}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you, Sir.", "pos": 458253}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Our little friend, has never complained.", "pos": 458271}
{"speaker": "The Apothecary", "text": "Oh no! He was not likely to complain.", "pos": 458341}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "You find him greatly better?", "pos": 458407}
{"speaker": "The Apothecary", "text": "Oh! he is greatly better, Sir,", "pos": 458459}
{"speaker": "The workman", "text": "How do you do, Sir?", "pos": 459580}
{"speaker": "The workman", "text": "old-fashioned", "pos": 460740}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "What could that old fashion be, that seemed to make the people sorry! What could it be!", "pos": 460774}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Gentlemen, we will resume our studies on the twenty-fifth of next month.", "pos": 466165}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Blimber", "pos": 466393}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Ay, ay, ay! God bless my soul!", "pos": 468490}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "What do you think of this, Dombey?", "pos": 468777}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Cook ’em.", "pos": 470292}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "But what is the matter, Floy?", "pos": 471058}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Nothing, darling; nothing,", "pos": 471140}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Why, Floy!", "pos": 471253}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "We’ll go home together, and I’ll nurse you, love,", "pos": 471275}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Nurse me! Floy. Tell me, dear, Do you think I have grown old-fashioned?", "pos": 471342}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No.", "pos": 471755}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Because I know they say so, and I want to know what they mean, Floy.", "pos": 471761}
{"speaker": "Lady Skettles", "text": "And what room is this now, for instance? Melia.", "pos": 472524}
{"speaker": "Paul's friend", "text": "Doctor Blimber’s study, Ma’am,", "pos": 472612}
{"speaker": "Lady Skettles", "text": "Very good. And this little creature, now. Is he one of the—", "pos": 472780}
{"speaker": "Paul's friend", "text": "Young gentlemen, Ma’am; yes, Ma’am,", "pos": 472956}
{"speaker": "Lady Skettles", "text": "And what is your name, my pale child?", "pos": 473014}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Dombey,", "pos": 473074}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "City—very rich—most respectable—Doctor mentioned it. Will you tell your good Papa that Sir Barnet Skettles rejoiced to hear that he was very well, and sent him his best compliments?", "pos": 473302}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, Sir,", "pos": 473514}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "That is my brave boy. Barnet, this is a young gentleman you ought to know. This is a young gentleman you may know, Barnet,", "pos": 473541}
{"speaker": "Lady Skettles", "text": "What eyes! What hair! What a lovely face!", "pos": 473847}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My sister,", "pos": 473968}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "Of something connected with statistics, I’ll swear?", "pos": 477361}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Why no, Sir Barnet. No, not exactly.", "pos": 477445}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "Figures of some sort, I would venture a bet,", "pos": 477528}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Why yes, yes, but not of that sort. Mr Baps is a very worthy sort of man, Sir Barnet, and—in fact he’s our Professor of dancing.", "pos": 477601}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne’er could injure You!", "pos": 478824}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Do, Floy! Please! For me, my dear!", "pos": 480252}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-bye, Doctor Blimber,", "pos": 483529}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Good-bye, my little friend,", "pos": 483593}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I’m very much obliged to you, Sir. Ask them to take care of Diogenes, if you please.", "pos": 483644}
{"speaker": "Cornelia", "text": "Dombey, Dombey, you have always been my favourite pupil. God bless you!", "pos": 484284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dombey’s going!", "pos": 484550}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Little Dombey’s going!", "pos": 484568}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Is Dombey there? Is Dombey there?", "pos": 486546}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh Floy, take me home, and never leave me! Take me home, Floy! take me home! I want to speak to Florence, if you please. To Florence by herself, for a moment! Floy, my pet, wasn’t that Papa in the hall, when they brought me from the coach?", "pos": 487599}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, dear.", "pos": 488405}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "He didn’t cry, and go into his room, Floy, did he, when he saw me coming in? I’m very glad he didn’t cry. I thought he did. Don’t tell them that I asked.", "pos": 488418}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Well! at last and at least, Uncle Sol must be told,", "pos": 491826}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stinger. Cuttle. Wal\"r!", "pos": 494385}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Ay, ay, Captain Cuttle, only me", "pos": 494874}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What’s the matter, my lad? Gills an’t been and sprung nothing again?", "pos": 494927}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, no. My Uncle’s all right, Captain Cuttle.", "pos": 495042}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Though you’re early, Wal\"r,", "pos": 495213}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Why, the fact is, Captain Cuttle. I was afraid you would have gone out, and I want to benefit by your friendly counsel.", "pos": 495314}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "So you shall, what’ll you take?", "pos": 495465}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I want to take your opinion, Captain Cuttle. That’s the only thing for me.", "pos": 495519}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Come on then. With a will, my lad!", "pos": 495624}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "You see, Captain Cuttle, for myself, I am young, as Mr Dombey said, and not to be considered. I am to fight my way through the world, I know; but there are two points I was thinking, as I came along, that I should be very particular about, in respect to my Uncle. I don’t mean to say that I deserve to be the pride and delight of his life—you believe me, I know—but I am. Now, don’t you think I am? If I live and have my health, and I am not afraid of that, still, when I leave England I can hardly hope to see my Uncle again. He is old, Captain Cuttle; and besides, his life is a life of custom—", "pos": 496132}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Steady, Wal\"r! Of a want of custom?", "pos": 496974}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Too true, but I meant a life of habit, Captain Cuttle—that sort of custom. And if (as you very truly said, I am sure) he would have died the sooner for the loss of the stock, and all those objects to which he has been accustomed for so many years, don’t you think he might die a little sooner for the loss of—", "pos": 497052}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Of his Nevy. Right!", "pos": 497401}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Well then, we must do our best to make him believe that the separation is but a temporary one, after all; but as I know better, or dread that I know better, Captain Cuttle, and as I have so many reasons for regarding him with affection, and duty, and honour, I am afraid I should make but a very poor hand at that, if I tried to persuade him of it. That’s my great reason for wishing you to break it out to him; and that’s the first point.", "pos": 497449}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Keep her off a point or so!", "pos": 497929}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "What did you say, Captain Cuttle?", "pos": 498007}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stand by!", "pos": 498060}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Now, the second point, Captain Cuttle. I am sorry to say, I am not a favourite with Mr Dombey. I have always tried to do my best, and I have always done it; but he does not like me. He can’t help his likings and dislikings, perhaps. I say nothing of that. I only say that I am certain he does not like me. He does not send me to this post as a good one; he disclaims to represent it as being better than it is; and I doubt very much if it will ever lead me to advancement in the House—whether it does not, on the contrary, dispose of me for ever, and put me out of the way. Now, we must say nothing of this to my Uncle, Captain Cuttle, but must make it out to be as favourable and promising as we can; and when I tell you what it really is, I only do so, that in case any means should ever arise of lending me a hand, so far off, I may have one friend at home who knows my real situation.", "pos": 498230}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal\"r, my boy. May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him! When found, make a note of. When found, make a note of.", "pos": 499120}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Captain Cuttle, next to my Uncle Sol, I love you. There is no one on earth in whom I can more safely trust, I am sure. As to the mere going away, Captain Cuttle, I don’t care for that; why should I care for that! If I were free to seek my own fortune—if I were free to go as a common sailor—if I were free to venture on my own account to the farthest end of the world—I would gladly go! I would have gladly gone, years ago, and taken my chance of what might come of it. But it was against my Uncle’s wishes, and against the plans he had formed for me; and there was an end of that. But what I feel, Captain Cuttle, is that we have been a little mistaken all along, and that, so far as any improvement in my prospects is concerned, I am no better off now than I was when I first entered Dombey’s House—perhaps a little worse, for the House may have been kindly inclined towards me then, and it certainly is not now.", "pos": 499556}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Turn again, Whittington,", "pos": 500589}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Ay, and turn a great many times, too, Captain Cuttle, I’m afraid, before such fortune as his ever turns up again. Not that I complain. I have nothing to complain of. I am provided for. I can live. When I leave my Uncle, I leave him to you; and I can leave him to no one better, Captain Cuttle. I haven’t told you all this because I despair, not I; it’s to convince you that I can’t pick and choose in Dombey’s House, and that where I am sent, there I must go, and what I am offered, that I must take. It’s better for my Uncle that I should be sent away; for Mr Dombey is a valuable friend to him, as he proved himself, you know when, Captain Cuttle; and I am persuaded he won’t be less valuable when he hasn’t me there, every day, to awaken his dislike. So hurrah for the West Indies, Captain Cuttle! How does that tune go that the sailors sing? For the Port of Barbados, Boys! Cheerily! Leaving old England behind us, Boys! Cheerily!", "pos": 500690}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Oh cheerily, cheerily! Oh cheer-i-ly!", "pos": 501743}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And now, Captain Cuttle, if you’ll come and break the news to Uncle Sol (which he ought to have known, days upon days ago, by rights), I’ll leave you at the door, you know, and walk about until the afternoon.", "pos": 502286}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "It’s an old habit of mine, Wal\"r, any time these fifty year. When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, Wal\"r, then you may know that Ned Cuttle’s aground. There’s a friend of mine, but he’s at present coasting round to Whitby, that would deliver such an opinion on this subject, or any other that could be named, as would give Parliament six and beat ’em. Been knocked overboard, that man, twice, and none the worse for it. Was beat in his apprenticeship, for three weeks (off and on), about the head with a ring-bolt. And yet a clearer-minded man don’t walk. If you was to take and show that man the buoy at the Nore, and ask him his opinion of it, Wal\"r, he’d give you an opinion that was no more like that buoy than your Uncle’s buttons are. There ain’t a man that walks—certainly not on two legs—that can come near him. Not near him!", "pos": 503642}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "What’s his name, Captain Cuttle?", "pos": 505147}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "His name’s Bunsby. But Lord, it might be anything for the matter of that, with such a mind as his!", "pos": 505252}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Or if there should be any little hitch between ’em, it only wants a word in season from a friend of both parties, to set it right and smooth, and make all taut again.", "pos": 506445}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Would ye be so good, my lad, as report Cap’en Cuttle here?", "pos": 507278}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Now, Wal”r, my boy, you may help me on with them slops.", "pos": 508254}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "You’re going in?", "pos": 509852}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 509884}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And you won’t forget anything?", "pos": 510061}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No,", "pos": 510094}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I’ll go upon my walk at once, and then I shall be out of the way, Captain Cuttle.", "pos": 510122}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Take a good long “un, my lad!", "pos": 510221}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Staggs’s Gardens, Mr Walter! if you please, oh do!", "pos": 514506}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Eh? what is the matter?", "pos": 514579}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh, Mr Walter, Staggs’s Gardens, if you please!", "pos": 514621}
{"speaker": "the coachman", "text": "There! that’s the way the young lady’s been a goin’ on for up’ards of a mortal hour, and me continivally backing out of no thoroughfares, where she would drive up. I’ve had a many fares in this coach, first and last, but never such a fare as her.", "pos": 514683}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Do you want to go to Staggs’s Gardens, Susan?", "pos": 515008}
{"speaker": "the coachman", "text": "Ah! She wants to go there! WHERE IS IT?", "pos": 515073}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I don’t know where it is! Mr Walter, I was there once myself, along with Miss Floy and our poor darling Master Paul, on the very day when you found Miss Floy in the City, for we lost her coming home, Mrs Richards and me, and a mad bull, and Mrs Richards’s eldest, and though I went there afterwards, I can’t remember where it is, I think it’s sunk into the ground. Oh, Mr Walter, don’t desert me, Staggs’s Gardens, if you please! Miss Floy’s darling—all our darlings—little, meek, meek Master Paul! Oh Mr Walter!", "pos": 515137}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Good God! Is he very ill?", "pos": 515679}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "The pretty flower! has took the fancy that he’d like to see his old nurse, and I’ve come to bring her to his bedside, Mrs Staggs, of Polly Toodle’s Gardens, someone pray!", "pos": 515723}
{"speaker": "the master sweep", "text": "Belonged to the Railroad, didn’t he?", "pos": 519835}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Yes sir, yes!", "pos": 519873}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Has the little boy been long ill, Susan?", "pos": 520479}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Ailing for a deal of time, but no one knew how much. Oh, them Blimbers!", "pos": 520559}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Blimbers?", "pos": 520681}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I couldn’t forgive myself at such a time as this, Mr Walter, and when there’s so much serious distress to think about, if I rested hard on anyone, especially on them that little darling Paul speaks well of, but I may wish that the family was set to work in a stony soil to make new roads, and that Miss Blimber went in front, and had the pickaxe! Where’s Mrs Richards? Oh Mrs Richards, Mrs Richards, come along with me, my dear creetur!", "pos": 520708}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Why, if it ain’t Susan!", "pos": 521539}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Yes, Mrs Richards, it’s me, and I wish it wasn’t, though I may not seem to flatter when I say so, but little Master Paul is very ill, and told his Pa today that he would like to see the face of his old nurse, and him and Miss Floy hope you’ll come along with me—and Mr Walter, Mrs Richards—forgetting what is past, and do a kindness to the sweet dear that is withering away. Oh, Mrs Richards, withering away!", "pos": 521667}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Polly! cut away!", "pos": 522540}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "I am better. I am a great deal better, thank you! Tell Papa so! Why, will it never stop, Floy? It is bearing me away, I think! You are always watching me, Floy, let me watch you, now!", "pos": 525626}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Floy! What is that?", "pos": 527968}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Where, dearest?", "pos": 528001}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "There! at the bottom of the bed.", "pos": 528019}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "There’s nothing there, except Papa!", "pos": 528054}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "My own boy! Don’t you know me?", "pos": 528166}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Don’t be sorry for me, dear Papa! Indeed I am quite happy! Don’t be sorry for me! Indeed I am quite happy!", "pos": 528747}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Floy, did I ever see Mama?", "pos": 530199}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, darling, why?", "pos": 530228}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Did I ever see any kind face, like Mama’s, looking at me when I was a baby, Floy?", "pos": 530248}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh yes, dear!", "pos": 530404}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Whose, Floy?", "pos": 530420}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Your old nurse’s. Often.", "pos": 530435}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And where is my old nurse? Is she dead too? Floy, are we all dead, except you? Show me that old nurse, Floy, if you please!", "pos": 530462}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "She is not here, darling. She shall come to-morrow.", "pos": 530829}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Thank you, Floy! Floy, is it tomorrow? Is she come?", "pos": 530883}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "And who is this? Is this my old nurse? Yes. Floy! this is a kind good face! I am glad to see it again. Don’t go away, old nurse! Stay here. Who was that, who said ‘Walter’? Someone said Walter. Is he here? I should like to see him very much.", "pos": 531744}
{"speaker": "Paul's father", "text": "Call him back, then: let him come up!", "pos": 532632}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Good-bye!", "pos": 533005}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Good-bye, my child! Not good-bye?", "pos": 533017}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Yes, good-bye! Walter dear, good-bye! Where is Papa? Remember Walter, dear Papa. Remember Walter. I was fond of Walter! Now lay me down, and, Floy, come close to me, and let me see you! How fast the river runs, between its green banks and the rushes, Floy! But it’s very near the sea. I hear the waves! They always said so! Mama 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!", "pos": 533227}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Dear me, dear me! To think, that Dombey and Son should be a Daughter after all!", "pos": 535119}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "But I’m behind the time, you understand, and I would rather have my dear boy here. It’s an old-fashioned notion, I daresay. He was always fond of the sea He’s he’s glad to go.", "pos": 541481}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Uncle Sol! if you say that, I won’t go. No. Captain Cuttle, I won’t. If my Uncle thinks I could be glad to leave him, though I was going to be made Governor of all the Islands in the West Indies, that’s enough. I’m a fixture.", "pos": 541876}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal\"r, my lad. Steady! Sol Gills, take an observation of your nevy. Here is a certain craft, a-going to put out on a certain voyage. What name is wrote upon that craft indelibly? Is it The Gay? or, is it The Gills?", "pos": 542128}
{"speaker": "old man", "text": "Ned. I know. I know. Of course I know that Wally considers me more than himself always. That’s in my mind. When I say he is glad to go, I mean I hope he is. Eh? look you, Ned and you too, Wally, my dear, this is new and unexpected to me; and I’m afraid my being behind the time, and poor, is at the bottom of it. Is it really good fortune for him, do you tell me, now? Really and truly? Is it? I can reconcile myself to almost anything that advances Wally, but I won’t have Wally putting himself at any disadvantage for me, or keeping anything from me. You, Ned Cuttle! are you dealing plainly by your old friend? Speak out, Ned Cuttle. Is there anything behind? Ought he to go? How do you know it first, and why?", "pos": 542636}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Matey. One of your Governors is named Carker. Look’ee here, mate, my name’s Cap’en Cuttle. If you’ll be so good as just report Cap’en Cuttle here, when you get a chance. I’ll wait.", "pos": 546206}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "What name was it you said?", "pos": 547455}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Cap’en,", "pos": 547548}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 547584}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Cuttle.", "pos": 547634}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Oh! I’ll see if he’s disengaged now. I don’t know. Perhaps he may be for a minute.", "pos": 547644}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay, ay, my lad, I won’t detain him longer than a minute,", "pos": 547854}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Will Captain Cuttle walk this way?", "pos": 548025}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Mr Carker?", "pos": 548275}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I believe so,", "pos": 548309}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You see. I’m a seafaring man myself, Mr Carker, and Wal\"r, as is on your books here, is almost a son of mine.", "pos": 548430}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Walter Gay?", "pos": 548669}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal\"r Gay it is, right! I’m a intimate friend of his and his Uncle’s. Perhaps, you may have heard your head Governor mention my name?—Captain Cuttle.", "pos": 548728}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "No!", "pos": 549012}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well. I’ve the pleasure of his acquaintance. I waited upon him down on the Sussex coast there, with my young friend Wal\"r, when—in short, when there was a little accommodation wanted. You remember, I daresay?", "pos": 549080}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I think. I had the honour of arranging the business.", "pos": 549408}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "To be sure! Right again! you had. Now I’ve took the liberty of coming here—", "pos": 549481}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Won’t you sit down?", "pos": 549582}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Thank’ee. A man does get more way upon himself, perhaps, in his conversation, when he sits down. Won’t you take a cheer yourself?", "pos": 549629}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "No thank you. You have taken the liberty, you were going to say—though it’s none—", "pos": 549816}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Thank’ee kindly, my lad, of coming here, on account of my friend Wal\"r. Sol Gills, his Uncle, is a man of science, and in science he may be considered a clipper; but he ain’t what I should altogether call a able seaman—not man of practice. Wal\"r is as trim a lad as ever stepped; but he’s a little down by the head in one respect, and that is, modesty. Now what I should wish to put to you, in a friendly way, entirely between you and me, and for my own private reckoning, “till your head Governor has wore round a bit, and I can come alongside of him, is this.—Is everything right and comfortable here, and is Wal\"r out’ard bound with a pretty fair wind?", "pos": 550081}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What do you think now, Captain Cuttle? You are a practical man; what do you think?", "pos": 550849}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Come! what do you say? Am I right or wrong?", "pos": 551182}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Right. I have no doubt.", "pos": 551506}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Out’ard bound with fair weather, then, I say. Wind right astarn, and plenty of it. Ay, ay! I know’d how she headed, well enough; I told Wal\"r so. Thank’ee, thank’ee.", "pos": 551550}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Gay has brilliant prospects, all the world before him.", "pos": 551874}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "All the world and his wife too, as the saying is. I’d bet a gill of old Jamaica, that I know what you’re a smiling at. It goes no farther?", "pos": 551985}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Not an inch,", "pos": 552580}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You’re thinking of a capital F perhaps? Anything about a L, or a O? Am I right, again? He know’d her first, in an uncommon manner—you remember his finding her in the street when she was a’most a babby—he has liked her ever since, and she him, as much as two youngsters can. We’ve always said, Sol Gills and me, that they was cut out for each other. There’s a general indraught that way. Wind and water sets in that direction, you see. Look at his being present t’other day!", "pos": 552611}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Most favourable to his hopes,", "pos": 553806}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Look at his being towed along in the wake of that day! Why what can cut him adrift now?", "pos": 553854}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 553967}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You’re right again. Nothing it is. So! steady! There’s a son gone: pretty little creetur. Ain’t there?", "pos": 553997}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, there’s a son gone,", "pos": 554159}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Pass the word, and there’s another ready for you. Nevy of a scientific Uncle! Nevy of Sol Gills! Wal\"r! Wal\"r, as is already in your business! And who—comes from Sol Gills’s daily, to your business, and your buzzums. Am I right?", "pos": 554215}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Captain Cuttle, your views in reference to Walter Gay are thoroughly and accurately right. I understand that we speak together in confidence.", "pos": 554998}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Honour! Not a word.", "pos": 555286}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To him or anyone? But merely for your own satisfaction and guidance—and guidance, of course, with a view to your future proceedings.", "pos": 555334}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Thank’ee kindly, I am sure,", "pos": 555557}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have no hesitation in saying, that’s the fact. You have hit the probabilities exactly.", "pos": 555637}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And with regard to your head Governor, why an interview had better come about nat’ral between us. There’s time enough.", "pos": 555728}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Time enough.", "pos": 555922}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And as I know—it’s what I always said—that Wal\"r’s in a way to make his fortune,", "pos": 556037}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To make his fortune,", "pos": 556138}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And as Wal\"r’s going on this little voyage is, as I may say, in his day’s work, and a part of his general expectations here,", "pos": 556206}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Of his general expectations here,", "pos": 556351}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, so long as I know that, there’s no hurry, and my mind’s at ease.", "pos": 556425}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Farewell! I ain’t a man of many words, but I take it very kind of you to be so friendly, and above-board. You’ll excuse me if I’ve been at all intruding, will you?", "pos": 557033}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 557237}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Thank’ee. My berth ain’t very roomy, but it’s tolerably snug; and if you was to find yourself near Brig Place, number nine, at any time—will you make a note of it?—and would come upstairs, without minding what was said by the person at the door, I should be proud to see you. Good day! Stand by, Ned! You’ve done a little business for the youngsters today, my lad!", "pos": 557271}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "I’ll give you for a toast. Wal\"r!", "pos": 559351}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Who?", "pos": 559407}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal\"r!", "pos": 559434}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "I always said at Mrs Pipchin’s that it would be so,", "pos": 561359}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "there’s a fate in it, and wants to know if anybody can tell him of any good that ever came of living in a corner house.", "pos": 561642}
{"speaker": "Youngest Child", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 564226}
{"speaker": "Someone", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 565888}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I wish to have it done at once.", "pos": 566145}
{"speaker": "Statuary", "text": "It shall be done immediately, Sir.", "pos": 566178}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "There is really nothing to inscribe but name and age, you see.", "pos": 566215}
{"speaker": "Statuary", "text": "I beg your pardon, Sir; but as you wish it done immediately, and it may be put in hand when I get back—", "pos": 566423}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well?", "pos": 566575}
{"speaker": "Statuary", "text": "Will you be so good as read it over again? I think there’s a mistake.", "pos": 566583}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Where?", "pos": 566655}
{"speaker": "Statuary", "text": "beloved and only child. It should be, ‘son,’ I think, Sir?", "pos": 566752}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You are right. Of course. Make the correction.", "pos": 566815}
{"speaker": "Servants", "text": "it seems like Sunday.", "pos": 567523}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "Amendment to us all!", "pos": 568003}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "There’s room enough, God knows.", "pos": 568069}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh my brother, oh my dearly loved and loving brother! Only friend and companion of my slighted childhood! Could any less idea shed the light already dawning on your early grave, or give birth to the softened sorrow that is springing into life beneath this rain of tears!", "pos": 569173}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear child, when you are as old as I am—", "pos": 569446}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Which will be the prime of life,", "pos": 569575}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "You will then, you will then know that all grief is unavailing, and that it is our duty to submit.", "pos": 569629}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I will try, dear aunt I do try,", "pos": 569826}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "I am glad to hear it, because; my love, as our dear Miss Tox—of whose sound sense and excellent judgment, there cannot possibly be two opinions—", "pos": 569888}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa, I shall really be proud, soon,", "pos": 570053}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "—will tell you, and confirm by her experience, we are called upon on all occasions to make an effort It is required of us. If any—my dear. I want a word. Mis—Mis-", "pos": 570117}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Demeanour?", "pos": 570326}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "No, no, no. How can you! Goodness me, it’s on, the end of my tongue. Mis-", "pos": 570359}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Placed affection?", "pos": 570451}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Good gracious, Lucretia! How very monstrous! Misanthrope, is the word I want. The idea! Misplaced affection! I say, if any misanthrope were to put, in my presence, the question ‘Why were we born?’ I should reply, ‘To make an effort’.", "pos": 570500}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Very good indeed. Very good.", "pos": 570757}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Unhappily, we have a warning under our own eyes. We have but too much reason to suppose, my dear child, that if an effort had been made in time, in this family, a train of the most trying and distressing circumstances might have been avoided. Nothing shall ever persuade me, but that if that effort had been made by poor dear Fanny, the poor dear darling child would at least have had a stronger constitution. Therefore, Florence, pray let us see that you have some strength of mind, and do not selfishly aggravate the distress in which your poor Papa is plunged.", "pos": 570856}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear aunt! Tell me more about Papa. Pray tell me about him! Is he quite heartbroken?", "pos": 571676}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Florence, my dear child, your poor Papa is peculiar at times; and to question me about him, is to question me upon a subject which I really do not pretend to understand. I believe I have as much influence with your Papa as anybody has. Still, all I can say is, that he has said very little to me; and that I have only seen him once or twice for a minute at a time, and indeed have hardly seen him then, for his room has been dark. I have said to your Papa, ‘Paul!’—that is the exact expression I used—‘Paul! why do you not take something stimulating?’ Your Papa’s reply has always been, ‘Louisa, have the goodness to leave me. I want nothing. I am better by myself.’ If I was to be put upon my oath to-morrow, Lucretia, before a magistrate. I have no doubt I could venture to swear to those identical words.", "pos": 573221}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My Louisa is ever methodical!", "pos": 574094}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "In short, Florence, literally nothing has passed between your poor Papa and myself, until today; when I mentioned to your Papa that Sir Barnet and Lady Skettles had written exceedingly kind notes—our sweet boy! Lady Skettles loved him like a—where’s my pocket handkerchief? Exceedingly kind notes, proposing that you should visit them for change of scene. Mentioning to your Papa that I thought Miss Tox and myself might now go home (in which he quite agreed), I inquired if he had any objection to your accepting this invitation. He said, ‘No, Louisa, not the least!’ At the same time, if you would prefer staying here, Florence, to paying this visit at present, or to going home with me—", "pos": 574126}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I should much prefer it, aunt,", "pos": 574898}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Why then, child, you can. It’s a strange choice, I must say. But you always were strange. Anybody else at your time of life, and after what has passed—my dear Miss Tox, I have lost my pocket handkerchief again—would be glad to leave here, one would suppose.", "pos": 574956}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I should not like to feel, as if the house was avoided. I should not like to think that the—his—the rooms upstairs were quite empty and dreary, aunt. I would rather stay here, for the present. Oh my brother! oh my brother!", "pos": 575234}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Well, child! I wouldn’t on any account say anything unkind to you, and that I’m sure you know. You will remain here, then, and do exactly as you like. No one will interfere with you, Florence, or wish to interfere with you, I’m sure. I had no sooner begun to advise your poor Papa that he really ought to seek some distraction and restoration in a temporary change, than he told me he had already formed the intention of going into the country for a short time. I’m sure I hope he’ll go very soon. He can’t go too soon. But I suppose there are some arrangements connected with his private papers and so forth, consequent on the affliction that has tried us all so much—I can’t think what’s become of mine: Lucretia, lend me yours, my dear—that may occupy him for one or two evenings in his own room. Your Papa’s a Dombey, child, if ever there was one. He’ll make an effort. There’s no fear of him.", "pos": 575815}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is there nothing, aunt. I might do to—", "pos": 576916}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Lord, my dear child, what are you talking about? If your Papa said to Me—I have given you his exact words, ‘Louisa, I want nothing; I am better by myself’—what do you think he’d say to you? You mustn’t show yourself to him, child. Don’t dream of such a thing.", "pos": 576985}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Aunt. I will go and lie down on my bed.", "pos": 577280}
{"speaker": "the child", "text": "Good-night, Papa,", "pos": 583798}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "A visitor! To me, Susan!", "pos": 585725}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well, it is a wonder, ain’t it now, Miss Floy? but I wish you had a many visitors, I do, indeed, for you’d be all the better for it, and it’s my opinion that the sooner you and me goes even to them old Skettleses, Miss, the better for both, I may not wish to live in crowds, Miss Floy, but still I’m not a oyster.", "pos": 585795}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "But the visitor, Susan,", "pos": 586228}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Mr Toots! My own feelings exactly, Miss Floy. Immediately I see that Innocent in the Hall, Miss Floy, I burst out laughing first, and then I choked.", "pos": 586380}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How d’ye do, Miss Dombey? I’m very well, I thank you; how are you?", "pos": 587034}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How d’ye do, Miss Dombey? I’m very well, I thank you; how are you? I’m very well indeed. Very well indeed, I am. I don’t remember, that I was ever better, thank you.", "pos": 587618}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It’s very kind of you to come. I am very glad to see you. You were very kind to my dear brother. He often talked to me about you.", "pos": 587938}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh it’s of no consequence. Warm, ain’t it?", "pos": 588434}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It is beautiful weather,", "pos": 588504}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "It agrees with me! I don’t think I ever was so well as I find myself at present, I’m obliged to you.", "pos": 588549}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You have left Dr Blimber’s, I think?", "pos": 588759}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I should hope so. Well! Good morning, Miss Dombey.", "pos": 588837}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Are you going?", "pos": 589071}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I don’t know, though. No, not just at present. The fact is—I say, Miss Dombey!", "pos": 589112}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Don’t be afraid to speak to me. I should be very glad if you would talk about my brother.", "pos": 589249}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Would you, though? Poor Dombey! I’m sure I never thought that Burgess and Co.—fashionable tailors (but very dear), that we used to talk about—would make this suit of clothes for such a purpose. Poor Dombey! I say! Miss Dombey!", "pos": 589378}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 589748}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "There’s a friend he took to very much at last. I thought you’d like to have him, perhaps, as a sort of keepsake. You remember his remembering Diogenes?", "pos": 589770}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh yes! oh yes", "pos": 589924}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Poor Dombey! So do I. I say. Miss Dombey! I could have had him stolen for ten shillings, if they hadn’t given him up: and I would: but they were glad to get rid of him, I think. If you’d like to have him, he’s at the door. I brought him on purpose for you. He ain’t a lady’s dog, you know, but you won’t mind that, will you?", "pos": 589957}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Come, then, Di! Dear Di! Make friends with your new mistress. Let us love each other, Di!", "pos": 593551}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Your Pa’s a going off, Miss Floy, tomorrow morning.", "pos": 595372}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "To-morrow morning, Susan?", "pos": 595426}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Yes, Miss; that’s the orders. Early.", "pos": 595454}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Do you know, where Papa is going, Susan?", "pos": 595493}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Not exactly, Miss. He’s going to meet that precious Major first, and I must say if I was acquainted with any Major myself (which Heavens forbid), it shouldn’t be a blue one!", "pos": 595578}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Hush, Susan!", "pos": 595754}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well, Miss Floy. I can’t help it, blue he is, and while I was a Christian, although humble, I would have natural-coloured friends, or none. Talk of him being a change, indeed! If he’s a change, give me a constancy.", "pos": 595792}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Good-night, Susan,", "pos": 596359}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Good-night, my darling dear Miss Floy.", "pos": 596395}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Papa! Papa! speak to me, dear Papa!", "pos": 599794}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What is the matter? Why do you come here? What has frightened you?", "pos": 599949}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I ask you, Florence, are you frightened? Is there anything the matter, that you come here?", "pos": 601217}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I came, Papa—", "pos": 601310}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Against my wishes. Why? You are tired, I daresay, and want rest. We all want rest. Go, Florence. You have been dreaming. I will remain here to light you up the stairs. The whole house is yours above there. You are its mistress now. Good-night!", "pos": 601326}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Good-night, dear Papa,", "pos": 602252}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, Di! Oh, dear Di! Love me for his sake!", "pos": 603149}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "A few hours more, and no dream I ever had here when I was a schoolboy will be so little mine as this old room. The dream may come back in my sleep, and I may return waking to this place, it may be: but the dream at least will serve no other master, and the room may have a score, and every one of them may change, neglect, misuse it. Uncle, what shall I send you home from Barbados?", "pos": 605714}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Hope, my dear Wally. Hope that we shall meet again, on this side of the grave. Send me as much of that as you can.", "pos": 606528}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "So I will, Uncle: I have enough and to spare, and I’ll not be chary of it! And as to lively turtles, and limes for Captain Cuttle’s punch, and preserves for you on Sundays, and all that sort of thing, why I’ll send you ship-loads, Uncle: when I’m rich enough. That’s right, Uncle! You cheer up me! I’ll cheer up you! We’ll be as gay as larks to-morrow morning, Uncle, and we’ll fly as high! As to my anticipations, they are singing out of sight now.", "pos": 606645}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Wally, my dear boy. I’ll do my best, I’ll do my best.", "pos": 607234}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And your best, Uncle, is the best best that I know. You’ll not forget what you’re to send me, Uncle?", "pos": 607314}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No, Wally, no, everything I hear about Miss Dombey, now that she is left alone, poor lamb, I’ll write. I fear it won’t be much though, Wally.", "pos": 607457}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Why, I’ll tell you what, Uncle. I have just been up there.", "pos": 607624}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ay, ay, ay?", "pos": 607729}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Not to see her, though I could have seen her, I daresay, if I had asked, Mr Dombey being out of town: but to say a parting word to Susan. I thought I might venture to do that, you know, under the circumstances, and remembering when I saw Miss Dombey last.", "pos": 607817}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, my boy, yes,", "pos": 608090}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "So I saw her. Susan, I mean: and I told her I was off and away to-morrow. And I said, Uncle, that you had always had an interest in Miss Dombey since that night when she was here, and always wished her well and happy, and always would be proud and glad to serve her in the least: I thought I might say that, you know, under the circumstances. Don’t you think so?", "pos": 608175}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, my boy, yes,", "pos": 608558}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And I added, that if she—Susan, I mean—could ever let you know, either through herself, or Mrs Richards, or anybody else who might be coming this way, that Miss Dombey was well and happy, you would take it very kindly, and would write so much to me, and I should take it very kindly too. There! Upon my word, Uncle. I scarcely slept all last night through thinking of doing this; and could not make up my mind when I was out, whether to do it or not; and yet I am sure it is the true feeling of my heart, and I should have been quite miserable afterwards if I had not relieved it. So, if you ever see her, Uncle. I mean Miss Dombey now—and perhaps you may, who knows!—tell her how much I felt for her; how much I used to think of her when I was here; how I spoke of her, with the tears in my eyes, Uncle, on this last night before I went away. Tell her that I said I never could forget her gentle manner, or her beautiful face, or her sweet kind disposition that was better than all. And as I didn’t take them from a woman’s feet, or a young lady’s: only a little innocent child’s, tell her, if you don’t mind, Uncle, that I kept those shoes—she’ll remember how often they fell off, that night—and took them away with me as a remembrance!", "pos": 608620}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Why, Uncle! What’s the matter?", "pos": 611057}
{"speaker": "Old Solomon", "text": "Miss Dombey!", "pos": 611131}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Is it possible? Here!", "pos": 611146}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Going away, Walter?", "pos": 611541}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Yes, Miss Dombey. I have a voyage before me.", "pos": 611578}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And your Uncle. He is sorry you are going, I am sure. Ah! I see he is! Dear Walter, I am very sorry too.", "pos": 611679}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Goodness knows, there’s a many we could spare instead, if numbers is a object, Mrs Pipchin as a overseer would come cheap at her weight in gold, and if a knowledge of black slavery should be required, them Blimbers is the very people for the sitiwation.", "pos": 611828}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "So grown!", "pos": 612472}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "So improved! And yet not altered! Just the same!", "pos": 612498}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 612549}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ye—yes. Yes, that expression was in the younger face, too!", "pos": 612574}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You remember me, and what a little creature I was then?", "pos": 612799}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "My dear young lady, how could I forget you, often as I have thought of you and heard of you since! At the very moment, indeed, when you came in, Wally was talking about you to me, and leaving messages for you, and—", "pos": 612887}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Was he? Thank you, Walter! Oh thank you, Walter! I was afraid you might be going away and hardly thinking of me;", "pos": 613136}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I—I am afraid I must call you Walter’s Uncle, Sir, if you’ll let me.", "pos": 614184}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "My dear young lady. Let you! Good gracious!", "pos": 614287}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "We always knew you by that name, and talked of you. The nice old parlour! Just the same! How well I recollect it!", "pos": 614350}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ah! time, time, time!", "pos": 614649}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I want to tell Walter’s Uncle, something that I am anxious about. He is going to be left alone, and if he will allow me—not to take Walter’s place, for that I couldn’t do, but to be his true friend and help him if I ever can while Walter is away, I shall be very much obliged to him indeed. Will you? May I, Walter’s Uncle? You will let me come to see you,", "pos": 614850}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Wally! say a word for me, my dear. I’m very grateful.", "pos": 616223}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, Walter. Say nothing for him, if you please. I understand him very well, and we must learn to talk together without you, dear Walter.", "pos": 616279}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Miss Florence. I know no more than my Uncle, what to say in acknowledgment of such kindness, I am sure. But what could I say, after all, if I had the power of talking for an hour, except that it is like you?", "pos": 616556}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh! but, Walter, there is something that I wish to say to you before you go away, and you must call me Florence, if you please, and not speak like a stranger.", "pos": 616998}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Like a stranger! No. I couldn’t speak so. I am sure, at least, I couldn’t feel like one.", "pos": 617176}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Ay, but that is not enough, and is not what I mean. For, Walter, he liked you very much, and said before he died that he was fond of you, and said ‘Remember Walter!’ and if you’ll be a brother to me, Walter, now that he is gone and I have none on earth, I’ll be your sister all my life, and think of you like one wherever we may be! This is what I wished to say, dear Walter, but I cannot say it as I would, because my heart is full.", "pos": 617286}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter,", "pos": 618999}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive. I made this little gift for Paul. Pray take it with my love, and do not look at it until you are gone away. And now, God bless you, Walter! never forget me. You are my brother, dear!", "pos": 623067}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And, Wal”r, if your Uncle’s the man I think him, he’ll bring out the last bottle of the Madeira on the present occasion.", "pos": 624142}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "No, no, Ned. No! That shall be opened when Walter comes home again.", "pos": 624321}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well said! Hear him! Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade on it. Overhaul the—Well. I ain’t quite certain where that’s to be found, but when found, make a note of. Sol Gills, heave ahead again!", "pos": 624415}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "But there or somewhere, it shall lie, Ned, until Wally comes back to claim it. That’s all I meant to say.", "pos": 624962}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "and if we three don’t crack that bottle in company, I’ll give you two leave to.", "pos": 625133}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Mr Carker! Pray come in! This is kind of you, to be here so early to say good-bye to me. You knew how glad it would make me to shake hands with you, once, before going away. I cannot say how glad I am to have this opportunity. Pray come in.", "pos": 626256}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "It is not likely that we may ever meet again, Walter, and I am glad of this opportunity too. I may venture to speak to you, and to take you by the hand, on the eve of separation. I shall not have to resist your frank approaches, Walter, any more.", "pos": 626560}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Ah, Mr Carker! Why did you resist them? You could have done me nothing but good, I am very sure.", "pos": 626999}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "If there were any good. I could do on this earth, I would do it, Walter, for you. The sight of you from day to day, has been at once happiness and remorse to me. But the pleasure has outweighed the pain. I know that, now, by knowing what I lose.", "pos": 627136}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Come in, Mr Carker, and make acquaintance with my good old Uncle. I have often talked to him about you, and he will be glad to tell you all he hears from me. I have not. I have not told him anything about our last conversation, Mr Carker; not even him, believe me.", "pos": 627395}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "If I ever make acquaintance with him, Walter, it will be that I may hear tidings of you. Rely on my not wronging your forbearance and consideration. It would be to wrong it, not to tell him all the truth, before I sought a word of confidence from him. But I have no friend or acquaintance except you: and even for your sake, am little likely to make any.", "pos": 627820}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I wish, you had suffered me to be your friend indeed. I always wished it, Mr Carker, as you know; but never half so much as now, when we are going to part.", "pos": 628192}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "It is enough, that you have been the friend of my own breast, and that when I have avoided you most, my heart inclined the most towards you, and was fullest of you. Walter, good-bye!", "pos": 628365}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Good-bye, Mr Carker. Heaven be with you, Sir!", "pos": 628571}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "if when you come back, you miss me from my old corner, and should hear from anyone where I am lying, come and look upon my grave. Think that I might have been as honest and as happy as you! And let me think, when I know time is coming on, that some one like my former self may stand there, for a moment, and remember me with pity and forgiveness! Walter, good-bye!", "pos": 628703}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r,” a parting gift, my lad. Put it back half an hour every morning, and about another quarter towards the arternoon, and it’s a watch that’ll do you credit.", "pos": 630613}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Captain Cuttle! I couldn’t think of it! Pray take it back. I have one already.", "pos": 630850}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Then, Wal”r,” take this here trifle of plate, instead.", "pos": 630987}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, no, I couldn’t indeed! a thousand thanks! Don’t throw them away, Captain Cuttle! They’ll be of much more use to you than me. Give me your stick. I have often thought I should like to have it. There! Good-bye, Captain Cuttle! Take care of my Uncle! Uncle Sol, God bless you!", "pos": 631217}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Mr Dombey, Sir. Joey” B. is not in general a man of sentiment, for Joseph is tough. But Joe has his feelings, Sir, and when they are awakened—Damme, Mr Dombey, this is weakness, and I won’t submit to it! It is not for an old soldier of the Bagstock breed, to deliver himself up, a prey to his own emotions; but—damme, Sir. I condole with you!", "pos": 633330}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey. I’m glad to see you. I’m proud to see you. There are not many men in Europe to whom J. Bagstock would say that—for Josh is blunt. Sir: it’s his nature—but Joey B. is proud to see you, Dombey.", "pos": 634841}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Major, you are very obliging.", "pos": 635061}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "No, Sir. Devil a bit! That’s not my character. If that had been Joe’s character, Joe might have been, by this time, Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph Bagstock, K.C.B., and might have received you in very different quarters. You don’t know old Joe yet, I find. But this occasion, being special, is a source of pride to me. By the Lord, Sir, it’s an honour to me!", "pos": 635115}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Where is my scoundrel? You villain! where’s the breakfast? Dombey, here is a devilled grill, a savoury pie, a dish of kidneys, and so forth. Pray sit down. Old Joe can give you nothing but camp fare, you see.", "pos": 637815}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Very excellent fare, Major,", "pos": 638642}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "You have been looking over the way, Sir. Have you seen our friend?", "pos": 638946}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You mean Miss Tox. No.", "pos": 639037}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Charming woman, Sir,", "pos": 639084}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Miss Tox is a very good sort of person, I believe,", "pos": 639196}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Old Joe, Sir, was a bit of a favourite in that quarter once. But Joe has had his day. J. Bagstock is extinguished—outrivalled—floored, Sir.", "pos": 639459}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I should have supposed, that the lady’s day for favourites was over: but perhaps you are jesting, Major.", "pos": 639619}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Perhaps you are jesting, Dombey? I beg your pardon. I see you are in earnest. I tell you what, Dombey. That’s a de-vilish ambitious woman, Sir.", "pos": 639747}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 640138}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "That woman, Sir, is, in her way, a Lucifer. Joey B. has had his day, Sir, but he keeps his eyes. He sees, does Joe. His Royal Highness the late Duke of York observed of Joey, at a levee, that he saw. That ridiculous old spectacle, Sir, aspires. She aspires sky-high, Sir. Matrimonially, Dombey.", "pos": 640299}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am sorry for her,", "pos": 640864}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Don’t say that, Dombey,", "pos": 640902}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Why should I not, Major?", "pos": 640967}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "She has taken an interest in your household, and has been a frequent visitor at your house for some time now.", "pos": 641089}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes. Miss Tox was originally received there, at the time of Mrs Dombey’s death, as a friend of my sister’s; and being a well-behaved person, and showing a liking for the poor infant, she was permitted—may I say encouraged—to repeat her visits with my sister, and gradually to occupy a kind of footing of familiarity in the family. I have. I have a respect for Miss Tox. She has been so obliging as to render many little services in my house: trifling and insignificant services perhaps, Major, but not to be disparaged on that account: and I hope I have had the good fortune to be enabled to acknowledge them by such attention and notice as it has been in my power to bestow. I hold myself indebted to Miss Tox, Major, for the pleasure of your acquaintance.", "pos": 641241}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, no! No, Sir! Joseph Bagstock can never permit that assertion to pass uncontradicted. Your knowledge of old Joe, Sir, such as he is, and old Joe’s knowledge of you, Sir, had its origin in a noble fellow, Sir—in a great creature, Sir. Dombey! we knew each other through your boy. Our friend had a remote connexion with that event, and all the credit that belongs to her, J. B. is willing to give her, Sir. Notwithstanding which, Ma’am, you’re a scheming jade, Ma’am, and your ambition is a piece of monstrous impudence. If it only made yourself ridiculous, Ma’am, you might do that to your heart’s content, Ma’am, without any objection, I assure you, on the part of Bagstock. But when, Ma’am, you compromise other people, and generous, unsuspicious people too, as a repayment for their condescension, you stir the blood of old Joe in his body.", "pos": 642183}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Major. I hope you do not hint at anything so absurd on the part of Miss Tox as—", "pos": 643972}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey. I hint at nothing. But Joey B. has lived in the world, Sir: lived in the world with his eyes open, Sir, and his ears cocked: and Joe tells you, Dombey, that there’s a devilish artful and ambitious woman over the way. That’s all on such a subject that shall pass the lips of Joseph Bagstock. Joe is not a tale-bearer, but there are times when he must speak, when he will speak!—confound your arts, Ma’am, when the provocation is too strong to admit of his remaining silent. And now, Dombey, as you have invited Joe—old Joe, who has no other merit, Sir, but that he is tough and hearty—to be your guest and guide at Leamington, command him in any way you please, and he is wholly yours. I don’t know, Sir, what it is you people see in Joe to make you hold him in such great request, all of you; but this I know, Sir, that if he wasn’t pretty tough, and obstinate in his refusals, you’d kill him among you with your invitations and so forth, in double-quick time.", "pos": 644083}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "J. B., Dombey is the man for you to choose as a friend.", "pos": 645819}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr Towlinson. Miss Tox appearing at her window, waved a lilywhite handkerchief.", "pos": 647274}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Beg your pardon, Sir, but I hope you’re a doin’ pretty well, Sir. I shall have the honour of stokin’ of you down, Sir. Beg your pardon, Sir.—I hope you find yourself a coming round? ’Scuse the liberty, Sir, but my wife Polly, as was called Richards in your family—", "pos": 648910}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Your wife wants money, I suppose,", "pos": 649902}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "No thank’ee, Sir. I can’t say she does. I don’t. No, Sir, we’re a doin’ pretty well, Sir; we haven’t no cause to complain in the worldly way, Sir. We’ve had four more since then, Sir, but we rubs on. We lost one babby, there’s no denyin’.", "pos": 650035}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Lately,", "pos": 650706}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "No, Sir, up’ard of three years ago, but all the rest is hearty. And in the matter o readin’, Sir, them boys o’ mine, they learned me, among ’em, arter all. They’ve made a wery tolerable scholar of me, Sir, them boys.", "pos": 650753}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Come, Major!", "pos": 651086}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Beg your pardon, Sir. I wouldn’t have troubled you with such a pint except as a way of gettin’ in the name of my son Biler—christened Robin—him as you was so good as to make a Charitable Grinder on.", "pos": 651117}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well, man. What about him?", "pos": 651420}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Why, Sir. I’m forced to say, Sir, that he’s gone wrong.", "pos": 651490}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "He has gone wrong, has he? with a hard kind of satisfaction", "pos": 651627}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "He has fell into bad company, you see, genelmen. He has got into bad ways. God send he may come to again, genelmen, but he’s on the wrong track now! You could hardly be off hearing of it somehow, Sir,", "pos": 651706}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "and it’s better I should out and say my boy’s gone rather wrong. Polly’s dreadful down about it, genelmen,", "pos": 652103}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "A son of this man’s whom I caused to be educated, Major. The usual return!", "pos": 652286}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Take advice from plain old Joe, and never educate that sort of people, Sir. Damme, Sir, it never does! It always fails!", "pos": 652401}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "The usual return!", "pos": 652905}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "it would never do: that it always failed: and that if he were to educate “his own vagabond,” he would certainly be hanged.", "pos": 653314}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, don’t be thoughtful. It’s a bad habit, Old Joe, Sir, wouldn’t be as tough as you see him, if he had ever encouraged it. You are too great a man, Dombey, to be thoughtful. In your position, Sir, you’re far above that kind of thing.", "pos": 662663}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Bagstock, your friend Dombey now, what is the view he takes of such and such a question? Though, by the Rood, Sir, how they discovered that J. B. ever came to know you, is a mystery!", "pos": 664032}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Why, what the devil have we here, Sir!", "pos": 669193}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith! Major Bagstock!", "pos": 669296}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Joe Bagstock, is a proud and happy man for the rest of his life.", "pos": 670079}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You false creature! Where do you come from? I can’t bear you.", "pos": 670179}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Then suffer old Joe to present a friend, Ma’am, as a reason for being tolerated. Mr Dombey, Mrs Skewton. Mr Dombey, Mrs Granger. I am delighted, Sir, to have this opportunity. Mrs Skewton, Dombey, makes havoc in the heart of old Josh.", "pos": 670288}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You perfidious goblin, have done! How long have you been here, bad man?", "pos": 670874}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "One day,", "pos": 670978}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And can you be a day, or even a minute, in the garden of what’s-its-name.", "pos": 671008}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Eden, I suppose, Mama,", "pos": 671234}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Edith. I cannot help it. I never can remember those frightful names—without having your whole Soul and Being inspired by the sight of Nature; by the perfume, of her artless breath, you creature!", "pos": 671301}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Mr Dombey is devoted to Nature, I trust?", "pos": 672576}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "My friend Dombey, Ma’am, may be devoted to her in secret, but a man who is paramount in the greatest city in the universe—", "pos": 672765}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "No one can be a stranger, to Mr Dombey’s immense influence.", "pos": 672912}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You reside here, Madam?", "pos": 673108}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "No, we have been to a great many places. To Harrogate and Scarborough, and into Devonshire. We have been visiting, and resting here and there. Mama likes change.", "pos": 673166}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith of course does not,", "pos": 673330}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have not found that there is any change in such places,", "pos": 673401}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "They libel me. There is only one change, Mr Dombey, for which I really care, and that I fear I shall never be permitted to enjoy. People cannot spare one. But seclusion and contemplation are my what-his-name—", "pos": 673514}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "If you mean Paradise, Mama, you had better say so, to render yourself intelligible,", "pos": 673770}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith, you know that I am wholly dependent upon you for those odious names. I assure you, Mr Dombey, Nature intended me for an Arcadian. I am thrown away in society. Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for, has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows—and china. What I want, is heart. What I want, is frankness, confidence, less conventionality, and freer play of soul. We are so dreadfully artificial. In short. I want Nature everywhere. It would be so extremely charming.", "pos": 673879}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Nature is inviting us away now, Mama, if you are ready,", "pos": 674869}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Stop a moment, Withers! Where are you staying, abomination? You may come and see us any evening when you are good. If Mr Dombey will honour us, we shall be happy. Withers, go on!", "pos": 675123}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "I tell you what, Sir. If Joe Bagstock were a younger man, there’s not a woman in the world whom he’d prefer for Mrs Bagstock to that woman. By George, Sir! she’s superb!", "pos": 676774}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Do you mean the daughter?", "pos": 677016}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Is Joey B. a turnip, Dombey, that he should mean the mother?", "pos": 677064}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You were complimentary to the mother,", "pos": 677145}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "An ancient flame, Sir. Devilish ancient. I humour her.", "pos": 677205}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "She impresses me as being perfectly genteel,", "pos": 677289}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Genteel, Sir. The Honourable Mrs Skewton, Sir, is sister to the late Lord Feenix, and aunt to the present Lord. The family are not wealthy—they’re poor, indeed—and she lives upon a small jointure; but if you come to blood, Sir!", "pos": 677352}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You addressed the daughter, I observed, as Mrs Granger.", "pos": 677786}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Edith Skewton, Sir, married (at eighteen) Granger of Ours; Granger, Sir, was Colonel of Ours; a de-vilish handsome fellow, Sir, of forty-one. He died, Sir, in the second year of his marriage.", "pos": 677883}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "How long is this ago?", "pos": 678486}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Edith Granger, Sir, is, at this present time, not quite thirty. And damme, Sir, she’s a peerless woman!", "pos": 678548}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Was there any family?", "pos": 678879}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Yes, Sir. There was a boy. Who was drowned, Sir. When a child of four or five years old.", "pos": 678930}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Indeed?", "pos": 679130}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By the upsetting of a boat in which his nurse had no business to have put him. That’s his history. Edith Granger is Edith Granger still; but if tough old Joey B., Sir, were a little younger and a little richer, the name of that immortal paragon should be Bagstock.", "pos": 679174}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Provided the lady made no objection, I suppose?", "pos": 679589}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By Gad, Sir, the Bagstock breed are not accustomed to that sort of obstacle. Though it’s true enough that Edith might have married twenty times, but for being proud, Sir, proud. It’s a great quality after all. By the Lord, it’s a high quality! Dombey! You are proud yourself, and your friend, Old Joe, respects you for it, Sir.", "pos": 679662}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You are a shocking bear and I have a great mind not to forgive you, but if you are very good indeed. Compliments (in which Edith unites) to Mr Dombey.", "pos": 681341}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I hope, Mrs Granger, we are not the cause of your ceasing to play?", "pos": 683398}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You! oh no!", "pos": 683515}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Why do you not go on then, my dearest Edith?", "pos": 683529}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I left off as I began—of my own fancy.", "pos": 683592}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Do you know, Mr Dombey, that occasionally my dearest Edith and myself actually almost differ—", "pos": 683913}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Not quite, sometimes, Mama?", "pos": 684068}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Oh never quite, my darling! Fie, fie, it would break my heart, —about these old conventionalities of manner that are observed in little things? Why are we not more natural? Dear me! With all those yearnings, and gushings, and impulsive throbbings that we have implanted in our souls, and which are so very charming, why are we not more natural?", "pos": 684110}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It was very true, very true.", "pos": 684583}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "We could be more natural I suppose if we tried?", "pos": 684613}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It possible.", "pos": 684698}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Devil a bit, Ma’am. We couldn’t afford it. Unless the world was peopled with J.B.“s—tough and blunt old Joes, Ma’am, plain red herrings with hard roes, Sir—we couldn’t afford it. It wouldn’t do.", "pos": 684712}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You naughty Infidel, be mute.", "pos": 684927}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Cleopatra commands, and Antony Bagstock obeys.", "pos": 684979}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "The man has no sensitiveness. No sympathy. And what do we live for but sympathy! What else is so extremely charming! Without that gleam of sunshine on our cold cold earth, how could we possibly bear it? In short, obdurate man! I would have my world all heart; and Faith is so excessively charming, that I won’t allow you to disturb it, do you hear?", "pos": 685067}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "There is not much company here, it would seem?", "pos": 686118}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I believe not. We see none.", "pos": 686222}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Why really, there are no people here just now with whom we care to associate.", "pos": 686252}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "They have not enough heart,", "pos": 686371}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith rallies me, you see! Wicked one!", "pos": 686508}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have been here before, if I am not mistaken?", "pos": 686708}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Oh, several times. I think we have been everywhere.", "pos": 686791}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "A beautiful country!", "pos": 686845}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I suppose it is. Everybody says so.", "pos": 686868}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,", "pos": 686906}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I hope, for the credit of my good taste, that I am tired of the neighbourhood,", "pos": 687202}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have almost reason to be, Madam, if these beautiful productions are from your hand. Have they that interest? Are they yours?", "pos": 687293}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 687710}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And you play, I already know.", "pos": 687717}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 687749}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And sing?", "pos": 687756}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 687768}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have many resources against weariness at least,", "pos": 688167}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Whatever their efficiency may be, you know them all now. I have no more.", "pos": 688237}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "May I hope to prove them all?", "pos": 688328}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Oh certainly! If you desire it!", "pos": 688466}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "We are going to have some music, Mr Dombey, I hope?", "pos": 689068}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Granger has been kind enough to promise so,", "pos": 689138}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Ah! That’s very nice. Do you propose, Major?", "pos": 689204}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "No, Ma’am,", "pos": 689251}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You’re a barbarous being, and my hand’s destroyed. You are fond of music, Mr Dombey?", "pos": 689298}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Eminently so,", "pos": 689405}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes. Yes. It’s very nice,", "pos": 689445}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "So much heart in it—undeveloped recollections of a previous state of existence—and all that—which is so truly charming. Do you know, that if anything could tempt me to put a period to my life, it would be curiosity to find out what it’s all about, and what it means; there are so many provoking mysteries, really, that are hidden from us. Major, you to play!", "pos": 689506}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Why do you answer it?", "pos": 694436}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "The messenger is out, and I am the next,", "pos": 694494}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are the next? Yes! Creditable to me! There! I am sorry to trouble you, James. Harriet who? what Harriet? I know nobody of that name.", "pos": 694563}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "She is not well, and has changed very much of late.", "pos": 695162}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "She changed very much, a great many years ago", "pos": 695216}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "I think if you would hear me—", "pos": 695318}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Why should I hear you, Brother John? I tell you, Harriet Carker made her choice many years ago between her two brothers. She may repent it, but she must abide by it.", "pos": 695349}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "Don’t mistake me. I do not say she does repent it. It would be black ingratitude in me to hint at such a thing. Though believe me, James, I am as sorry for her sacrifice as you.", "pos": 695641}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "As I?", "pos": 695843}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "As sorry for her choice—for what you call her choice—as you are angry at it,", "pos": 695882}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Angry? Displeased. Whatever word you like best. You know my meaning. There is no offence in my intention. There is offence in everything you do,", "pos": 695978}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "When Harriet tried in vain to plead for me with you, on your first just indignation, and my first disgrace; and when she left you, James, to follow my broken fortunes, and devote herself, in her mistaken affection, to a ruined brother, because without her he had no one, and was lost; she was young and pretty. I think if you could see her now—if you would go and see her—she would move your admiration and compassion. We thought in those days: you and I both: that she would marry young, and lead a happy and light-hearted life. Oh if you knew how cheerfully she cast those hopes away; how cheerfully she has gone forward on the path she took, and never once looked back; you never could say again that her name was strange in your ears. Never! May I go on?", "pos": 696489}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "On your way? If you will have the goodness. If she has gone, and goes, her own way cheerfully, you may tell her that I go as cheerfully on mine. If she has never once looked back, you may tell her that I have, sometimes, to recall her taking part with you, and that my resolution is no easier to wear away; than marble.", "pos": 697620}
{"speaker": "The brother", "text": "I tell her nothing of you. We never speak about you. Once a year, on your birthday, Harriet says always, ‘Let us remember James by name, and wish him happy,’ but we say no more.", "pos": 698241}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Tell it then, if you please, to yourself. You can’t repeat it too often, as a lesson to you to avoid the subject in speaking to me. I know no Harriet Carker. There is no such person. You may have a sister; make much of her. I have none.", "pos": 698421}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Would you please to be engaged, Sir? Why, Sir, really nobody, Sir, to speak of at present. Mr Gills the Ship’s Instrument-maker, Sir, has looked in, about a little matter of payment, he says: but I mentioned to him, Sir, that you was engaged several deep; several deep. Anybody else? Well, Sir, I wouldn’t of my own self take the liberty of mentioning, Sir, that there was anybody else; but that same young lad that was here yesterday, Sir, and last week, has been hanging about the place; and it looks, Sir,", "pos": 700528}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You said he wanted something to do, didn’t you, Perch?", "pos": 701545}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Why, Sir, his expression certainly were that he was in wants of a sitiwation, and that he considered something might be done for him about the Docks, being used to fishing with a rod and line: but—", "pos": 701723}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What does he say when he comes?", "pos": 701970}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Whether, it mightn’t be best for me to tell him, that if he was seen here any more he would be given into custody; and to keep to it! With respect to bodily fear. I’m so timid, myself, by nature, Sir, and my nerves is so unstrung by Mrs Perch’s state, that I could take my affidavit easy.", "pos": 703122}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Let me see this fellow, Perch. Bring him in!", "pos": 703494}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Yes, Sir. Begging your pardon, Sir, he’s rough, Sir, in appearance.", "pos": 703559}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Never mind. If he’s there, bring him in. I’ll see Mr Gills directly. Ask him to wait.", "pos": 703670}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Come along with you!", "pos": 704308}
{"speaker": "The boy", "text": "Come, Sir! You let me alone, will you!", "pos": 705293}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Let you alone! What! I have got you, have I? You dog. I’ll strangle you!", "pos": 705334}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I haven’t done nothing to you, Sir,", "pos": 705895}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You young scoundrel! What do you mean by daring to come here?", "pos": 705998}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I didn’t mean no harm, Sir. I’ll never come again, Sir. I only wanted work.", "pos": 706157}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Work, young Cain that you are! Ain’t you the idlest vagabond in London? Ain’t you a thief?", "pos": 706327}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "No, sir,", "pos": 706895}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are!", "pos": 706919}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I ain’t indeed, Sir. I never did such a thing as thieve, Sir, if you’ll believe me. I know I’ve been a going wrong, Sir, ever since I took to bird-catching and walking-matching. I’m sure a cove might think, that singing birds was innocent company, but nobody knows what harm is in them little creeturs and what they brings you down to. I ain’t been home twenty times since them birds got their will of me, and that’s ten months. How can I go home when everybody’s miserable to see me! I wonder, that I haven’t been and drownded myself over and over again.", "pos": 706946}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You’re a nice young gentleman! There’s hemp-seed sown for you, my fine fellow!", "pos": 708134}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’m sure, Sir. I shouldn’t care, sometimes, if it was growed too. My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin’ wag?", "pos": 708258}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Excepting what?", "pos": 708497}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Wag, Sir. Wagging from school.", "pos": 708531}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?", "pos": 708564}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir, that’s wagging, Sir. I was chivied through the streets, Sir, when I went there, and pounded when I got there. So I wagged, and hid myself, and that began it.", "pos": 708633}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And you mean to tell me, that you want a place, do you?", "pos": 708850}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I should be thankful to be tried, Sir,", "pos": 709038}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Tell Mr Gills to come here. Mr Gills! sit down. How do you do? You continue to enjoy your health, I hope?", "pos": 709291}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Thank you, Sir. Nothing ails me in body but old age. Twenty-five, Sir.", "pos": 709559}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are as punctual and exact, Mr Gills, as one of your own chronometers. Quite right.", "pos": 709723}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "The Son and Heir has not been spoken, I find by the list, Sir,", "pos": 709954}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "The Son and Heir has not been spoken. There seems to have been tempestuous weather, Mr Gills, and she has probably been driven out of her course.", "pos": 710092}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "She is safe, I trust in Heaven!", "pos": 710259}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "She is safe, I trust in Heaven! Mr Gills, you must miss your nephew very much? Mr Gills, it would be company to you to have a young fellow in your shop just now, and it would be obliging me if you would give one house-room for the present. No, to be sure, there’s not much business doing there, I know; but you can make him clean the place out, polish up the instruments; drudge, Mr Gills. That’s the lad! Will you give him house-room, Mr Gills?", "pos": 710307}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "the wooden Midshipman would consider himself happy to receive in his berth any visitor of Mr Carker’s selecting.", "pos": 711790}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I’ll dispose of him so, then, Mr Gills, until I make up my mind what to do with him, and what he deserves. As I consider myself responsible for him, Mr Gills. I shall be glad if you’ll look sharply after him, and report his behaviour to me. I’ll ask a question or two of his parents as I ride home this afternoon—respectable people—to confirm some particulars in his own account of himself; and that done, Mr Gills, I’ll send him round to you to-morrow morning. Goodbye! Now, boy! You have heard me?", "pos": 712101}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Sir.", "pos": 713102}
{"speaker": "his patron", "text": "Perhaps you understand, that if you ever deceive or play tricks with me, you had better have drowned yourself, indeed, once for all, before you came here?", "pos": 713114}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "If you have lied to me, in anything, never come in my way again. If not, you may let me find you waiting for me somewhere near your mother’s house this afternoon. I shall leave this at five o’clock, and ride there on horseback. Now, give me the address. Mr Carker the Manager did a great deal of business in the course of the day, and bestowed his teeth upon a great many people. In the office, in the court, in the street, and on “Change, they glistened and bristled to a terrible extent. Five o’clock arriving, and with it Mr Carker’s bay horse, they got on horseback, and went gleaming up Cheapside.", "pos": 713395}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Now, Sir, come along!", "pos": 716262}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Oh Rob, my poor boy, what have you done at last!", "pos": 717335}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Nothing, mother, ask the gentleman!", "pos": 717386}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Don’t be alarmed. I want to do him good. This fellow, is your son, eh, Ma’am?", "pos": 717457}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Yes, Sir,", "pos": 718002}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "A bad son, I am afraid?", "pos": 718056}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Never a bad son to me, Sir,", "pos": 718098}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To whom then?", "pos": 718144}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "He has been a little wild, Sir, and has gone with wrong companions: but I hope he has seen the misery of that, Sir, and will do well again.", "pos": 718180}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Your husband, I take it, is not at home?", "pos": 718711}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "No, Sir. He’s down the line at present.", "pos": 718763}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Then. I’ll tell you how I have stumbled on this boy of yours, and who I am, and what I am going to do for him.", "pos": 719064}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’ll try hard, dear mother, now. Upon my soul I will!", "pos": 721098}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Oh do, my dear boy! I am sure you will, for our sakes and your own! But you’re coming back to speak to me, when you have seen the gentleman away?", "pos": 721164}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I don’t know, mother. Father—when’s he coming home?", "pos": 721340}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Not till two o’clock to-morrow morning.", "pos": 721428}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’ll come back, mother dear!", "pos": 721470}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What! You have a bad father, have you?", "pos": 721632}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "No, Sir! There ain’t a better nor a kinder father going, than mine is.", "pos": 721711}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Why don’t you want to see him then?", "pos": 721808}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "There’s such a difference between a father and a mother, Sir. He couldn’t hardly believe yet that I was doing to do better—though I know he’d try to—but a mother—she always believes what’s good, Sir; at least, I know my mother does, God bless her!", "pos": 721867}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You’ll come to me tomorrow morning, and you shall be shown where that old gentleman lives; that old gentleman who was with me this morning; where you are going, as you heard me say.", "pos": 722383}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Sir,", "pos": 722567}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have a great interest in that old gentleman, and in serving him, you serve me, boy, do you understand? Well. I see you do. I want to know all about that old gentleman, and how he goes on from day to day—for I am anxious to be of service to him—and especially who comes there to see him. Do you understand?", "pos": 722593}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Sir,", "pos": 723031}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I should like to know that he has friends who are attentive to him, and that they don’t desert him—for he lives very much alone now, poor fellow; but that they are fond of him, and of his nephew who has gone abroad. There is a very young lady who may perhaps come to see him. I want particularly to know all about her.", "pos": 723050}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’ll take care, Sir,", "pos": 723371}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And take care, take care you talk about affairs of mine to nobody but me.", "pos": 723408}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "To nobody in the world, Sir,", "pos": 723630}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Neither there, nor anywhere else. I’ll try how true and grateful you can be. I’ll prove you!", "pos": 723692}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "A very young lady! Ay! when I saw her last, she was a little child. With dark eyes and hair, I recollect, and a good face; a very good face! I daresay she’s pretty.", "pos": 725348}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh! Good morning! For Mr Dombey. For Miss Dombey. Oh, I beg your pardon. Is the young woman at home? Oh! How de do? How’s Diogenes going on?", "pos": 728432}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Miss Florence is quite well, Sir,", "pos": 729494}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh, it’s of no consequence, thank’ee,", "pos": 729547}
{"speaker": "the Chicken", "text": "Go in and win. When your man’s before you and your work cut out, go in and do it,", "pos": 731283}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Perhaps you’d like to walk upstairs, Sir!", "pos": 732134}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Well, I think I will come in!", "pos": 732190}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Go along with you! or Ill tear your eyes out.", "pos": 732400}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Just another!", "pos": 732463}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Go along with you! Innocents like you, too! Who’ll begin next? Go along, Sir!", "pos": 732494}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I beg your pardon, Sir. I hope you are not hurt?", "pos": 733860}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh no, thank you, it’s of no consequence", "pos": 733974}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "If the dog’s teeth have entered the leg, Sir—", "pos": 734135}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "No, thank you, it’s all quite right. It’s very comfortable, thank you.", "pos": 734224}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have the pleasure of knowing Mr Dombey,", "pos": 734314}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Have you though?", "pos": 734375}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And you will allow me, perhaps, to apologise, in his absence, for such a misadventure, and to wonder how it can possibly have happened.", "pos": 734421}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Better late than never, dear Miss Floy, and I do say, that even a visit to them old Skettleses will be a Godsend.", "pos": 748180}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It is very good of Sir Barnet and Lady Skettles, Susan, to repeat their invitation so kindly.", "pos": 748310}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "They know what they’re about, if ever people did, oh! trust them Skettleses for that!", "pos": 748946}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am not very anxious to go to Fulham, Susan, I confess, but it will be right to go. I think it will be better.", "pos": 749080}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Much better,", "pos": 749224}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And so, though I would prefer to have gone when there was no one there, instead of in this vacation time, when it seems there are some young people staying in the house, I have thankfully said yes.", "pos": 749298}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "For which I say, Miss Floy, Oh be joyful! Ah! h—h!", "pos": 749515}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "How long it is before we have any news of Walter, Susan!", "pos": 750012}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Long indeed, Miss Floy! And Perch said, when he came just now to see for letters—but what signifies what he says! Much he knows about it! If I hadn’t, if I hadn’t more manliness than that insipidest of his sex, I’d never take pride in my hair again, but turn it up behind my ears, and wear coarse caps, without a bit of border, until death released me from my insignificance. I may not be a Amazon, Miss Floy, and wouldn’t so demean myself by such disfigurement, but anyways I’m not a giver up, I hope.", "pos": 750116}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Give up! What?", "pos": 750976}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Why, nothing, Miss. Good gracious, nothing! It’s only that wet curl-paper of a man, Perch, that anyone might almost make away with, with a touch, and really it would be a blessed event for all parties if someone would take pity on him, and would have the goodness!", "pos": 751032}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Does he give up the ship, Susan?", "pos": 751313}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "No, Miss. I should like to see him make so bold as do it to my face! No, Miss, but he goes on about some bothering ginger that Mr Walter was to send to Mrs Perch, and shakes his dismal head, and says he hopes it may be coming; anyhow, he says, it can’t come now in time for the intended occasion, but may do for next, which really, puts me out of patience with the man, for though I can bear a great deal, I am not a camel, neither am I, if I know myself, a dromedary neither.", "pos": 751378}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "What else does he say, Susan? Won’t you tell me?", "pos": 751965}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "As if I wouldn’t tell you anything, Miss Floy, and everything! Why, nothing Miss, he says that there begins to be a general talk about the ship, and that they have never had a ship on that voyage half so long unheard of, and that the Captain’s wife was at the office yesterday, and seemed a little put out about it, but anyone could say that, we knew nearly that before.", "pos": 752048}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I must visit Walter’s uncle, before I leave home. I will go and see him this morning. Let us walk there, directly, Susan.", "pos": 752435}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Mrs Richards’s eldest, Miss! and the worrit of Mrs Richards’s life!", "pos": 754934}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Strays! Whoo-oop! Strays! Strays! Whoo-oop! Strays!", "pos": 755409}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Is this the way you show your penitence, when Mrs Richards has been fretting for you months and months? Where’s Mr Gills?", "pos": 755964}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Mr Gills was out.", "pos": 756298}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Fetch him home, and say that my young lady’s here.", "pos": 756318}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I don’t know where he’s gone,", "pos": 756407}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Is that your penitence?", "pos": 756449}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why how can I go and fetch him when I don’t know where to go? How can you be so unreasonable?", "pos": 756513}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Did Mr Gills say when he should be home?", "pos": 756637}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Miss. He said he should be home early in the afternoon; in about a couple of hours from now, Miss.", "pos": 756696}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Is he very anxious about his nephew?", "pos": 756871}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Miss. I should say he was, very much so. He ain’t indoors, Miss, not a quarter of an hour together. He can’t settle in one place five minutes. He goes about, like a—just like a stray,", "pos": 756925}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Do you know a friend of Mr Gills, called Captain Cuttle?", "pos": 757362}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Him with a hook, Miss? Yes, Miss. He was here the day before yesterday.", "pos": 757469}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Has he not been here since?", "pos": 757603}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "No, Miss,", "pos": 757646}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Perhaps Walter’s Uncle has gone there, Susan,", "pos": 757712}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "To Captain Cuttle’s, Miss? no, he’s not gone there, Miss. Because he left particular word that if Captain Cuttle called, I should tell him how surprised he was, not to have seen him yesterday, and should make him stop till he came back.", "pos": 757795}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Do you know where Captain Cuttle lives?", "pos": 758052}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I beg your pardon, Ma’am. Is this Captain Cuttle’s house?", "pos": 761751}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "No,", "pos": 761889}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Not Number Nine?", "pos": 761916}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Who said it wasn’t Number Nine? What do you want with Captain Cuttle, I should wish to know?", "pos": 761963}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Should you? Then I’m sorry that you won’t be satisfied,", "pos": 762284}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Hush, Susan! If you please! Perhaps you can have the goodness to tell us where Captain Cuttle lives, Ma’am as he don’t live here.", "pos": 762364}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Who says he don’t live here? I said it wasn’t Cap’en Cuttle’s house—and it ain’t his house—and forbid it, that it ever should be his house—for Cap’en Cuttle don’t know how to keep a house—and don’t deserve to have a house—it’s my house—and when I let the upper floor to Cap’en Cuttle, oh I do a thankless thing, and cast pearls before swine!", "pos": 762513}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Steady below!", "pos": 763178}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Since you want Cap’en Cuttle, there he is!", "pos": 763194}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You are amazed to see us, I am sure,", "pos": 765427}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stand by! Stand by!", "pos": 765637}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "But I couldn’t rest, without coming to ask you what you think about dear Walter—who is my brother now—and whether there is anything to fear, and whether you will not go and console his poor Uncle every day, until we have some intelligence of him? Have you any fears for Walter’s safety?", "pos": 765659}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, Heart’s-delight. I am not afeard. Wal”r is a lad as’ll go through a deal o’ hard weather. Wal”r is a lad as’ll bring as much success to that “ere brig as a lad is capable on. Wal”r, is what you may call a out’ard and visible sign of an in’ard and spirited grasp, and when found make a note of. I am not afeard, my Heart’s-delight. There’s been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there’s no denyin’, and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t’other side the world. But the ship’s a good ship, and the lad’s a good lad; and it ain’t easy, thank the Lord, to break up hearts of oak, whether they’re in brigs or buzzums. Here we have ’em both ways, which is bringing it up with a round turn, and so I ain’t a bit afeard as yet.", "pos": 766317}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "As yet?", "pos": 767453}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Not a bit, and afore I begin to be, my Hearts-delight, Wal”r will have wrote home from the island, or from some port or another, and made all taut and ship-shape. who I’ll stand by, and not desert until death do us part, and when the stormy winds do blow, do blow, do blow—overhaul the Catechism, and there you’ll find them expressions—if it would console Sol Gills to have the opinion of a seafaring man as has got a mind equal to any undertaking that he puts it alongside of, and as was all but smashed in his “prenticeship, and of which the name is Bunsby, that “ere man shall give him such an opinion in his own parlour as’ll stun him. Ah! as much as if he’d gone and knocked his head again a door!", "pos": 767482}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Let us take this gentleman to see him, and let us hear what he says. Will you go with us now? We have a coach here.", "pos": 768373}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You see I should have bore down on Sol Gills yesterday, and this morning, but she—she took it away and kept it. That’s the long and short of the subject.", "pos": 769178}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Who did, for goodness sake?", "pos": 769334}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "The lady of the house, my dear. We had some words about the swabbing of these here planks, and she—In short, she stopped my liberty.", "pos": 769384}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh! I wish she had me to deal with! I’d stop her!", "pos": 769673}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Would you, do you, my dear? I don’t know. It’s difficult navigation. She’s very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she’ll head, you see. She’s full one minute, and round upon you next. And when she in a tartar. Would you, do you think, my dear?", "pos": 769778}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Clara a-hoy!", "pos": 773539}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "A-hoy!", "pos": 773615}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Bunsby aboard?", "pos": 773686}
{"speaker": "boy", "text": "Ay, ay!", "pos": 773813}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "said Bunsby, my lad, how fares it?", "pos": 775760}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Ay, ay, shipmet, how goes it?", "pos": 775940}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Bunsby, here you are; a man of mind, and a man as can give an opinion. Here’s a young lady as wants to take that opinion, in regard of my friend Wal\"r; likewise my t’other friend, Sol Gills, which is a character for you to come within hail of, being a man of science, which is the mother of invention, and knows no law. Bunsby, will you wear, to oblige me, and come along with us? Here is a man, that has fell down, more than any man alive; that has had more accidents happen to his own self than the Seamen’s Hospital to all hands; that took as many spars and bars and bolts about the outside of his head when he was young, as you’d want a order for on Chatham-yard to build a pleasure yacht with; and yet that his opinions in that way, it’s my belief, for there ain’t nothing like ’em afloat or ashore.", "pos": 776084}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Shipmet, what’ll the ladies drink?", "pos": 777553}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Whether she can have run, but no, that’s almost impossible or whether she can have been forced by stress of weather,—but that’s not reasonably likely. Or whether there is any hope she so far changed her course as—but even I can hardly hope that!", "pos": 779582}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You have been to see me? Today?", "pos": 780641}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, my dear young lady. I wished to see you with my own eyes, and to hear you with my own ears, once more before—", "pos": 780692}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Before when? Before what?", "pos": 780904}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Did I say ‘before?’ If I did, I must have meant before we should have news of my dear boy.", "pos": 780978}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You are not well. You have been so very anxious I am sure you are not well.", "pos": 781090}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I am as well, as well and firm as any man at my time of life can hope to be. See! It’s steady. Is its master not as capable of resolution and fortitude as many a younger man? I think so. We shall see.", "pos": 781195}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "My name’s Jack Bunsby!", "pos": 782536}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "He was christened John. Hear him!", "pos": 782561}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "And what I says. I stands to.", "pos": 782635}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Now he’s coming out. This is what I meant when I brought him.", "pos": 782795}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Whereby, why not? If so, what odds? Can any man say otherwise? No. Awast then! Do I believe that this here Son and Heir’s gone down, my lads? Mayhap. Do I say so? Which? If a skipper stands out by Sen’ George’s Channel, making for the Downs, what’s right ahead of him? The Goodwins. He isn’t forced to run upon the Goodwins, but he may. The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. That ain’t no part of my duty. Awast then, keep a bright look-out for’ard, and good luck to you!", "pos": 782859}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What cheer, Sol Gills?", "pos": 785152}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "But so-so, Ned. I have been remembering, all this afternoon, that on the very day when my boy entered Dombey’s House, and came home late to dinner, sitting just there where you stand, we talked of storm and shipwreck, and I could hardly turn him from the subject.", "pos": 785206}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stand by, old friend! Look alive! I tell you what, Sol Gills; arter I’ve convoyed Heart’s-delight safe home. I’ll come back and take you in tow for the rest of this blessed day. You’ll come and eat your dinner along with me, Sol, somewheres or another.", "pos": 785625}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Not today, Ned! Not today. I couldn’t do it!", "pos": 785949}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 786087}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I—I have so much to do. I—I mean to think of, and arrange. I couldn’t do it, Ned, indeed. I must go out again, and be alone, and turn my mind to many things today.", "pos": 786151}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "To-morrow, then,", "pos": 786420}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, yes. To-morrow. Think of me to-morrow. Say to-morrow.", "pos": 786462}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "I shall come here early, mind, Sol Gills,", "pos": 786543}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Yes, yes. The first thing tomorrow morning, and now good-bye, Ned Cuttle, and God bless you!", "pos": 786611}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Would you, do you think my dear, though?", "pos": 787627}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "Now, my dear Sir, is there anybody you would like to know? Who is there you would wish to meet? Do you take any interest in writing people, or in painting or sculpturing people, or in acting people, or in anything of that sort? My dear Sir—penalty of your eminent position—friend at my house naturally desirous—Lady Skettles and myself participate—trust that genius being superior to ceremonies, you will do us the distinguished favour of giving us the pleasure. My dear Miss Dombey, are you sure you can remember no one whom your good Papa—to whom I beg you present the best compliments of myself and Lady Skettles when you write—might wish you to know?", "pos": 790322}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "Is there anybody you can suggest now, Doctor Blimber?", "pos": 792366}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "You are very kind, Sir Barnet. Really I am not aware that there is, in particular. I like to know my fellow-men in general, Sir Barnet. What does Terence say? Anyone who is the parent of a son is interesting to me.", "pos": 792475}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet Skettles", "text": "Has Mrs Blimber any wish to see any remarkable person?", "pos": 792719}
{"speaker": "Mrs Blimber", "text": "if Sir Barnet could have made her known to Cicero, she would have troubled him; but such an introduction not being feasible, and she already enjoying the friendship of himself and his amiable lady, and possessing with the Doctor her husband their joint confidence in regard to their dear son—here young Barnet was observed to curl his nose—she asked no more.", "pos": 792884}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "Is Florence an orphan like me, aunt?", "pos": 797526}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "No, my love. She has no mother, but her father is living.", "pos": 797581}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "Is she in mourning for her poor Mama, now?", "pos": 797641}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "No; for her only brother.", "pos": 797714}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "Has she no other brother?", "pos": 797742}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "None.", "pos": 797770}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "No sister?", "pos": 797778}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "None,", "pos": 797791}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "I am very, very sorry! Florence is a favourite with everyone here, and deserves to be, I am sure. Where is her Papa? He is in England, I hope, aunt?", "pos": 797799}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "I believe so. Yes; I know he is, indeed.", "pos": 798646}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "Has he ever been here?", "pos": 798689}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "I believe not. No.", "pos": 798714}
{"speaker": "Kate", "text": "Is he coming here to see her?", "pos": 798735}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "I believe not.", "pos": 798767}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Good morning, you are at work early.", "pos": 805337}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’d be glad to be often at work earlier, Miss, if I had work to do.", "pos": 805413}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is it so hard to get?", "pos": 805483}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I find it so,", "pos": 805523}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is that your daughter?", "pos": 805687}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 805817}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is she in want of employment also?", "pos": 805955}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, Miss,", "pos": 806031}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I work for both,", "pos": 806052}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Are there only you two, then?", "pos": 806071}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only us two,", "pos": 806122}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Her mother has been dead these ten year. Martha!", "pos": 806151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "won’t you say a word to the pretty young lady?", "pos": 806253}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I’m afraid she’s worse this morning, my poor girl!", "pos": 806573}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "She is ill, then!", "pos": 806765}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don’t believe my Martha’s had five short days’ good health,", "pos": 806826}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in as many long years.", "pos": 806925}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "More than that, you say, do you?", "pos": 807045}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not to me,", "pos": 807372}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not to me.", "pos": 807423}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who would favour my poor girl—to call it favouring—if I didn’t?", "pos": 807692}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ay, ay,", "pos": 807775}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In reason, John. But you! You rob yourself to give to her. You bind yourself hand and foot on her account. You make your life miserable along of her. And what does she care! You don’t believe she knows it?", "pos": 807806}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only to get that, he never lets her out of his sight!", "pos": 808297}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Because the day’ll come, and has been coming a long while,", "pos": 808353}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "when to get half as much from that unfort’nate child of mine—to get the trembling of a finger, or the waving of a hair—would be to raise the dead.", "pos": 808461}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Florence, live for me, and we will love each other as we might have done, and be as happy as we might have been these many years! It is too late for anything but this; I never could be happier, dear father!", "pos": 809568}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "My horse is perfectly quiet, I assure you. I have the honour to address Miss Dombey, I believe?", "pos": 811856}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "My name is Carker. I can hardly hope to be remembered by Miss Dombey, except by name. Carker. I beg pardon, a thousand times! But I am going down tomorrow morning to Mr Dombey, at Leamington, and if Miss Dombey can entrust me with any commission, need I say how very happy I shall be?", "pos": 812205}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "There is no news of the ship!", "pos": 813212}
{"speaker": "man of teeth", "text": "Nothing to send, Miss Dombey?", "pos": 813548}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Nothing, but my—but my dear love—if you please.", "pos": 813603}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Holloa! What’s the matter? Steady, my lad, don’t ye speak a word to me as yet!", "pos": 815315}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "heave ahead.", "pos": 816285}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Do you mean, tell you, Captain?", "pos": 816300}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay!", "pos": 816398}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, Sir. I ain’t got much to tell. But look here! And look here! When I woke this morning, Captain, which was about a quarter after five, I found these on my pillow. The shop-door was unbolted and unlocked, and Mr Gills gone.", "pos": 816422}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Gone!", "pos": 816898}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Flowed, Sir, 'For Captain Cuttle,' Sir, is on the keys, and on the packet too. Upon my word and honour, Captain Cuttle, I don’t know anything more about it. I wish I may die if I do! Here’s a sitiwation for a lad that’s just got a sitiwation, his master bolted with his place, and him blamed for it!", "pos": 816926}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "'My dear Ned Cuttle. Enclosed is my will!' and Testament’—Where’s the Testament? What have you done with that, my lad?", "pos": 817771}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I never see it. Don’t keep on suspecting an innocent lad, Captain. I never touched the Testament.", "pos": 818007}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "'Which don’t break open for a year, or until you have decisive intelligence of my dear Walter, who is dear to you, Ned, too, I am sure.' 'If you should never hear of me, or see me more, Ned, remember an old friend as he will remember you to the last—kindly; and at least until the period I have mentioned has expired, keep a home in the old place for Walter. There are no debts, the loan from Dombey’s House is paid off and all my keys I send with this. Keep this quiet, and make no inquiry for me; it is useless. So no more, dear Ned, from your true friend, Solomon Gills.' 'The boy Rob, well recommended, as I told you, from Dombey’s House. If all else should come to the hammer, take care, Ned, of the little Midshipman.'", "pos": 818234}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh, don’t, Captain! I wonder how you can! what have I done to be looked at, like that?", "pos": 820141}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad, don’t you sing out afore you’re hurt. And don’t you commit yourself, whatever you do.", "pos": 820251}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I haven’t been and committed nothing, Captain!", "pos": 820370}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Keep her free, then, and ride easy.", "pos": 820433}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "And I think, Captain, that when Mr Gills was going in and out so often, these last few days, he was taking little things away, piecemeal, not to attract attention.", "pos": 822531}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay! Why so, my lad?", "pos": 822733}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why. I don’t see his shaving tackle. Nor his brushes, Captain. Nor no shirts. Nor yet his shoes.", "pos": 822789}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And what should you say, not committing yourself—about his time of sheering off? Hey?", "pos": 823290}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why, I think, Captain, that he must have gone pretty soon after I began to snore.", "pos": 823397}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What o’clock was that?", "pos": 823497}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "How can I tell, Captain! I only know that I’m a heavy sleeper at first, and a light one towards morning; and if Mr Gills had come through the shop near daybreak, though ever so much on tiptoe, I’m pretty sure I should have heard him shut the door at all events.", "pos": 823593}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "that it wam’t him.", "pos": 826770}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Now, look ye here, my lad, to-morrow, I shan’t be found in this here roadstead till night—not till arter midnight p’rhaps. But you keep watch till you hear me knock, and the moment you do, turn-to, and open the door.", "pos": 827559}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Very good, Captain,", "pos": 827846}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You’ll continue to be rated on these here books, and I don’t say but what you may get promotion, if you and me should pull together with a will. But the moment you hear me knock to-morrow night, whatever time it is, turn-to and show yourself smart with the door.", "pos": 827878}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’ll be sure to do it, Captain,", "pos": 828182}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Because you understand, there may be, for anything I can say, a chase; and I might be took while I was waiting, if you didn’t show yourself smart with the door.", "pos": 828229}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "A nice small kidney-pudding now, Cap’en Cuttle, or a sheep’s heart. Don’t mind my trouble.", "pos": 829164}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No thank’ee, Ma’am,", "pos": 829278}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Have a roast fowl, with a bit of weal stuffing and some egg sauce. Come, Cap’en Cuttle! Give yourself a little treat!", "pos": 829322}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No thank’ee, Ma’am,", "pos": 829465}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "I’m sure you’re out of sorts, and want to be stimulated. Why not have, for once in a way, a bottle of sherry wine?", "pos": 829521}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well, Ma’am, if you’d be so good as take a glass or two, I think I would try that. Would you do me the favour, Ma’am, to accept a quarter’s rent ahead?", "pos": 829660}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "And why so, Cap’en Cuttle?", "pos": 829892}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "If you would Ma’am, it would oblige me. I can’t keep my money very well. It pays itself out. I should take it kind if you’d comply.", "pos": 830013}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Well, Cap’en Cuttle, you can do as you please. It’s not for me, with my family, to refuse, no more than it is to ask.", "pos": 830174}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And would you, Ma’am, be so good as offer eighteen-pence a-piece to the little family all round? If you could make it convenient, Ma’am, to pass the word presently for them children to come for’ard, in a body, I should be glad to see ’em.", "pos": 830348}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Whew! It’s a breather!", "pos": 832645}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Nothing the matter, is there, Captain?", "pos": 832710}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, no! But mind ye, my lad; if any lady, except either of them two as you see t’other day, ever comes and asks for Cap’en Cuttle, be sure to report no person of that name known, nor never heard of here; observe them orders, will you?", "pos": 832773}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’ll take care, Captain,", "pos": 833107}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You might say—if you liked, that you’d read in the paper that a Cap’en of that name was gone to Australia, emigrating, along with a whole ship’s complement of people as had all swore never to come back no more.", "pos": 833148}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Your most obedient, Sir. Damme, Sir, a friend of my friend Dombey’s is a friend of mine, and I’m glad to see you!", "pos": 836074}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am infinitely obliged, Carker, to Major Bagstock, for his company and conversation. Major Bagstock has rendered me great service, Carker.", "pos": 836208}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By Gad, Sir, there are no thanks due to me, for it’s a give and take affair. A great creature like our friend Dombey, Sir, cannot help improving and exalting his friends. He strengthens and invigorates a man, Sir, does Dombey, in his moral nature. But when my friend Dombey, Sir, talks to you of Major Bagstock, I must crave leave to set him and you right. He means plain Joe, Sir—Joey B.—Josh. Bagstock—Joseph—rough and tough Old J., Sir. At your service. And now, Sir, you and Dombey have the devil’s own amount of business to talk over.", "pos": 836672}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "By no means, Major,", "pos": 837700}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey. I know better; a man of your mark—the Colossus of commerce—is not to be interrupted. Your moments are precious. We shall meet at dinner-time. In the interval, old Joseph will be scarce. The dinner-hour is a sharp seven, Mr Carker. I beg your pardon. Dombey, have you any message to ’em?", "pos": 837742}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "compliments", "pos": 838333}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By the Lord, Sir, you must make it something warmer than that, or old Joe will be far from welcome.", "pos": 838347}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Regards then, if you will, Major,", "pos": 838467}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme, Sir, make it something warmer than that.", "pos": 838523}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What you please, then, Major,", "pos": 838645}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Our friend is sly, Sir, sly, Sir, de-vilish sly. So is Bagstock. Dombey! I envy your feelings. God bless you!", "pos": 838697}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Very great indeed,", "pos": 839122}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I have had my reasons, Carker. I have been alone, and indifferent to it. But you have great social qualifications yourself, and are the more likely to have been surprised.", "pos": 839729}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! I! It’s quite another matter in the case of a man like me. I don’t come into comparison with you.", "pos": 839903}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I shall have the pleasure, Carker, to present you to my—to the Major’s friends. Highly agreeable people.", "pos": 840217}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Ladies among them, I presume?", "pos": 840423}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "They are all—that is to say, they are both—ladies,", "pos": 840486}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Only two?", "pos": 840558}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "They are only two. I have confined my visits to their residence, and have made no other acquaintance here.", "pos": 840585}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Sisters, perhaps?", "pos": 840694}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mother and daughter,", "pos": 840728}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are very kind. I shall be delighted to know them. Speaking of daughters, I have seen Miss Dombey. I took the liberty of waiting on her, to inquire if she could charge me with any little commission. I am not so fortunate as to be the bearer of any but her—but her dear love.", "pos": 841171}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What business intelligence is there?", "pos": 841675}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "There is very little. Upon the whole we have not had our usual good fortune of late, but that is of little moment to you. At Lloyd’s, they give up the Son and Heir for lost. Well, she was insured, from her keel to her masthead.", "pos": 841831}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker. I cannot say that young man, Gay, ever impressed me favourably—", "pos": 842080}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Nor me,", "pos": 842197}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "—But I wish, he had never gone on board that ship. I wish he had never been sent out.", "pos": 842231}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It is a pity you didn’t say so, in good time, is it not? However, I think it’s all for the best. I really, think it’s all for the best. Did I mention that there was something like a little confidence between Miss Dombey and myself?", "pos": 842370}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "No,", "pos": 842631}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have no doubt, that wherever Gay is, he is much better where he is, than at home here. If I were, or could be, in your place, I should be satisfied of that. I am quite satisfied of it myself. Miss Dombey is confiding and young—perhaps hardly proud enough, for your daughter—if she have a fault. Not that that is much though, I am sure. Will you check these balances with me?", "pos": 842662}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "What insupportable creature is this, coming in? I cannot hear it. Go away, whoever you are!", "pos": 844809}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "You have not the heart to banish J. B., Ma’am!", "pos": 844923}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Oh it’s you, is it? On second thoughts, you may enter. Sit down, a long way off. Don’t come too near me, for I am frightfully faint and sensitive this morning, and you smell of the Sun. You are absolutely tropical.", "pos": 845052}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By George, Ma’am, the time has been when Joseph Bagstock has been grilled and blistered by the Sun; then time was, when he was forced, Ma’am, into such full blow, by high hothouse heat in the West Indies, that he was known as the Flower. A man never heard of Bagstock, Ma’am, in those days; he heard of the Flower—the Flower of Ours. The Flower may have faded, more or less, Ma’am, but it is a tough plant yet, and constant as the evergreen.", "pos": 845432}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Where is Mrs Granger? Very well. Go away, and shut the door. I am engaged. Dombey, Ma’am,", "pos": 846209}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "is as well as a man in his condition can be. His condition is a desperate one, Ma’am. He is touched, is Dombey! Touched! He is bayonetted through the body.", "pos": 846601}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Major Bagstock, although I know but little of the world,—nor can I really regret my experience, for I fear it is a false place, full of withering conventionalities: where Nature is but little regarded, and where the music of the heart, and the gushing of the soul, and all that sort of thing, which is so truly poetical, is seldom heard,—I cannot misunderstand your meaning. There is an allusion to Edith—to my extremely dear child, in your words, to which the tenderest of chords vibrates excessively.", "pos": 846898}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Bluntness, Ma’am, has ever been the characteristic of the Bagstock breed. You are right. Joe admits it.", "pos": 847480}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And that allusion, would involve one of the most—if not positively the most—touching, and thrilling, and sacred emotions of which our sadly-fallen nature is susceptible, I conceive. I feel that I am weak. I feel that I am wanting in that energy, which should sustain a Mama: not to say a parent: on such a subject, but I can hardly approach a topic so excessively momentous to my dearest Edith without a feeling of faintness. Nevertheless, bad man, as you have boldly remarked upon it, and as it has occasioned me great anguish: I will not shrink from my duty. Mr Dombey, was obliging enough, now many weeks ago, to do us the honour of visiting us here; in company, my dear Major, with yourself. I acknowledge—let me be open—that it is my failing to be the creature of impulse, and to wear my heart as it were, outside. I know my failing full well. My enemy cannot know it better. But I am not penitent; I would rather not be frozen by the heartless world, and am content to bear this imputation justly. It gave me (my dearest Edith too, I am sure) infinite pleasure to receive Mr Dombey. As a friend of yours, my dear Major, we were naturally disposed to be prepossessed in his favour; and I fancied that I observed an amount of Heart in Mr Dombey, that was excessively refreshing.", "pos": 847608}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "There is devilish little heart in Dombey now, Ma’am,", "pos": 849602}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Wretched man! pray be silent.", "pos": 849673}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "J. B. is dumb, Ma’am,", "pos": 849752}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Mr Dombey, accordingly repeated his visit; and possibly finding some attraction in the simplicity and primitiveness of our tastes—for there is always a charm in nature—it is so very sweet—became one of our little circle every evening. Little did I think of the awful responsibility into which I plunged when I encouraged Mr Dombey—to", "pos": 849792}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "To beat up these quarters, Ma’am,", "pos": 850190}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Coarse person! you anticipate my meaning, though in odious language. The agony I have endured, as the truth has by degrees dawned upon me, has been too exceedingly terrific to dilate upon. My whole existence is bound up in my sweetest Edith; and to see her change from day to day—my beautiful pet, who has positively garnered up her heart since the death of that most delightful creature, Granger—is the most affecting thing in the world. Edith, who is the perfect pearl of my life, is said to resemble me. I believe we are alike.", "pos": 850252}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "There is one man in the world who never will admit that anyone resembles you, Ma’am, and that man’s name is Old Joe Bagstock.", "pos": 851237}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "If my charming girl inherits any advantages from me, wicked one! she inherits also my foolish nature. She has great force of character—mine has been said to be immense, though I don’t believe it—but once moved, she is susceptible and sensitive to the last extent. What are my feelings when I see her pining! They destroy me. The confidence, that has subsisted between us—the free development of soul, and openness of sentiment—is touching to think of. We have been more like sisters than Mama and child.", "pos": 851494}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "J. B.“s own sentiment, expressed by J. B. fifty thousand times!", "pos": 852183}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Do not interrupt, rude man! What are my feelings, then, when I find that there is one subject avoided by us! That there is a what’s-his-name—a gulf—opened between us. That my own artless Edith is changed to me! They are of the most poignant description, of course. From day to day I see this, my dear Major. From day to day I feel this. From hour to hour I reproach myself for that excess of faith and trustfulness which has led to such distressing consequences; and almost from minute to minute, I hope that Mr Dombey may explain himself, and relieve the torture I undergo, which is extremely wearing. But nothing happens, my dear Major; I am the slave of remorse—take care of the coffee-cup: you are so very awkward—my darling Edith is an altered being; and I really don’t see what is to be done, or what good creature I can advise with.", "pos": 852271}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Advise with Joe, Ma’am.", "pos": 853480}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Then, you aggravating monster, why don’t you talk to me? you know what I mean. Why don’t you tell me something to the purpose? Is there as much Heart in Mr Dombey as I gave him credit for? Do you think he is in earnest, my dear Major? Would you recommend his being spoken to, or his being left alone? Now tell me, like a dear man, what would you advise.", "pos": 853506}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Shall we marry him to Edith Granger, Ma’am?", "pos": 854108}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Mysterious creature! How can we marry him?", "pos": 854184}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Shall we marry him to Edith Granger, Ma’am, I say? Dombey, Ma’am, is a great catch.", "pos": 854299}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Oh, mercenary wretch! I am shocked.", "pos": 854822}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "And Dombey, Ma’am, is in earnest. Joseph says it; Bagstock knows it; J. B. keeps him to the mark. Leave Dombey to himself, Ma’am. Dombey is safe, Ma’am. Do as you have done; do no more; and trust to J. B. for the end.", "pos": 854901}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You really think so, my dear Major?", "pos": 855195}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Sure of it, Ma’am. Cleopatra the peerless, and her Antony Bagstock, will often speak of this, triumphantly, when sharing the elegance and wealth of Edith Dombey’s establishment. Dombey’s right-hand man, Ma’am, has arrived.", "pos": 855343}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "This morning?", "pos": 855662}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "This morning, Ma’am. And Dombey’s anxiety for his arrival, Ma’am, is to be referred—take J. B.“s word for this; for Joe is devilish sly—to his desire that what is in the wind should become known to him without Dombey’s telling and consulting him. For Dombey is as proud, Ma’am, as Lucifer.", "pos": 855694}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "A charming quality, reminding one of dearest Edith.", "pos": 856134}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Well, Ma’am. I have thrown out hints already, and the right-hand man understands ’em; and I’ll throw out more, before the day is done. Dombey projected this morning a ride to Warwick Castle, and to Kenilworth, to-morrow, to be preceded by a breakfast with us. I undertook the delivery of this invitation. Will you honour us so far, Ma’am?", "pos": 856210}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Hush! Edith!", "pos": 856990}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith, where on earth have you been? I have wanted you, my love, most sadly.", "pos": 857770}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You said you were engaged, and I stayed away,", "pos": 857880}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "It was cruel to Old Joe, Ma’am,", "pos": 857968}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It was very cruel, I know,", "pos": 858035}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Major Bagstock, my darling Edith, who is generally the most useless and disagreeable creature in the world: as you know—", "pos": 858194}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It is surely not worthwhile, Mama, to observe these forms of speech. We are quite alone. We know each other.", "pos": 858339}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My darling girl,", "pos": 858707}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Not woman yet? How very odd you are today, my dear! Pray let me say, my love, that Major Bagstock has brought the kindest of notes from Mr Dombey, proposing that we should breakfast with him to-morrow, and ride to Warwick and Kenilworth. Will you go, Edith? Will I go!", "pos": 858743}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "I knew you would, my own. It is, as you say, quite a form to ask. Here is Mr Dombey’s letter, Edith.", "pos": 859133}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Thank you. I have no desire to read it,", "pos": 859269}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Then perhaps I had better answer it myself, though I had thought of asking you to be my secretary, darling. Your regards, Edith, my dear?", "pos": 859327}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What you will, Mama,", "pos": 859829}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "As to alteration in her, Sir, as to alteration, Sir, and pining, and so forth, that won’t go down with Joseph Bagstock, None of that, Sir. It won’t do here. But as to there being something of a division between ’em—or a gulf as the mother calls it—damme, Sir, that seems true enough. And it’s odd enough! Well, Sir! Edith Granger and Dombey are well matched; let ’em fight it out! Bagstock backs the winner!", "pos": 860606}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Well, Sir! How have you passed the time since I had the happiness of meeting you? Have you walked at all?", "pos": 862900}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "A saunter of barely half an hour’s duration. We have been so much occupied.", "pos": 863026}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Business, eh?", "pos": 863123}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "A variety of little matters necessary to be gone through, but I feel quite confidential with you, Major Bagstock.", "pos": 863155}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "You do me honour, Sir. You may be.", "pos": 863495}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Do you know, then, that I have not found our friend so attentive to business today, as usual?", "pos": 863554}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "No?", "pos": 864139}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have found him a little abstracted, and with his attention disposed to wander,", "pos": 864175}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By Jove, Sir, there’s a lady in the case.", "pos": 864271}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Indeed, I begin to believe there really is. I thought you might be jesting when you seemed to hint at it; for I know you military men", "pos": 864334}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Well! we are gay dogs, there’s no denying. she was a woman of extraordinary charms, Sir. That she was a young widow, Sir. That she was of a fine family, Sir. That Dombey was over head and ears in love with her, Sir, and that it would be a good match on both sides; for she had beauty, blood, and talent, and Dombey had fortune; and what more could any couple have? Mr Carker would see her tomorrow morning, and would judge for himself;", "pos": 864577}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, you don’t eat; what’s the matter?", "pos": 866411}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Thank you. I am doing very well; I have no great appetite today.", "pos": 866473}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Why, Dombey, what’s become of it? Where’s it gone? You haven’t left it with our friends, I’ll swear, for I can answer for their having none today at luncheon. I can answer for one of ’em, at least: I won’t say which. Fill this to the brim, you scoundrel. Fill Mr Carker’s to the brim too. And Mr Dombey’s too. By Gad, gentlemen, we’ll consecrate this glass of wine to a Divinity whom Joe is proud to know, and at a distance humbly and reverently to admire. Edith, is her name; angelic Edith!", "pos": 866566}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To angelic Edith!", "pos": 867606}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Edith, by all means,", "pos": 867652}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "For though among ourselves, Joe Bagstock mingles jest and earnest on this subject, Sir, he holds that name too sacred to be made the property of these fellows, or of any fellows. Not a word, Sir, while they are here!", "pos": 867797}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, I play picquet a little,", "pos": 869755}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Backgammon, perhaps?", "pos": 869803}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, I play backgammon a little too,", "pos": 869858}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker plays at all games, I believe, and plays them well.", "pos": 869923}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, I play chess a little. I have sometimes played, and won a game—it’s a mere trick—without seeing the board.", "pos": 870220}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By Gad, Sir! you are a contrast to Dombey, who plays nothing.", "pos": 870353}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! He! He has never had occasion to acquire such little arts. To men like me, they are sometimes useful. As at present, Major Bagstock, when they enable me to take a hand with you.", "pos": 870444}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Now to see the second Mrs Dombey!", "pos": 874149}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Let me tell your fortune, my pretty lady,", "pos": 876350}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "I can tell it for myself,", "pos": 876512}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Ay, ay, pretty lady; but not right. You didn’t tell it right when you were sitting there. I see you! Give me a piece of silver, pretty lady, and I’ll tell your fortune true. There’s riches, pretty lady, in your face.", "pos": 876555}
{"speaker": "Lady", "text": "I know. I knew it before.", "pos": 876774}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "What! You won’t give me nothing? You won’t give me nothing to tell your fortune, pretty lady? How much will you give me to tell it, then? Give me something, or I’ll call it after you! You give me something then, or I’ll call it after her! Or come, give me something, or I’ll call it after you!", "pos": 876871}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "After me, old lady!", "pos": 877758}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Yes. I know!", "pos": 877834}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What do you know? Do you know who the handsome lady is?", "pos": 877931}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Good! One child dead, and one child living: one wife dead, and one wife coming. Go and meet her!", "pos": 878641}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What was that you said, Bedlamite?", "pos": 879039}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Go and meet her!", "pos": 879446}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Mr Dombey. I am afraid we are late, but Edith has been out already looking for a favourable point of view for a sketch, and kept me waiting for her. Falsest of Majors, how do you do?", "pos": 880058}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Skewton, let me gratify my friend Carker: by presenting him to you. You have heard me mention Mr Carker.", "pos": 880300}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "I am charmed, I am sure. Why, where, for Heaven’s sake, is Edith?", "pos": 880558}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker—", "pos": 881197}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I am obliged to the gentleman, for sparing me some annoyance from an importunate beggar just now.", "pos": 881311}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am obliged to my good fortune, for the opportunity of rendering so slight a service to one whose servant I am proud to be.", "pos": 881446}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Really, really now, this is one of the most enchanting coincidences that I ever heard of. The idea! My dearest Edith, there is such an obvious destiny in it, that really one might almost be induced to cross one’s arms upon one’s frock, and say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What’s-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet!", "pos": 881908}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It gives me great pleasure, that a gentleman so nearly connected with myself as Carker is, should have had the honour and happiness of rendering the least assistance to Mrs Granger. But it gives me some pain, and it occasions me to be really envious of Carker; envious of Carker, that I had not that honour and that happiness myself.", "pos": 882580}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By the Lord, Sir, it’s an extraordinary thing to me that no one can have the honour and happiness of shooting all such beggars through the head without being brought to book for it. But here’s an arm for Mrs Granger if she’ll do J. B. the honour to accept it; and the greatest service Joe can render you, Ma’am, just now, is, to lead you into table!", "pos": 883184}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "I am quite rejoiced, Mr Carker, that you have timed your visit so happily, as to go with us today. It is the most enchanting expedition!", "pos": 883763}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Any expedition would be enchanting in such society, but I believe it is, in itself, full of interest.", "pos": 883997}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Oh! the Castle is charming!—associations of the Middle Ages—and all that—which is so truly exquisite. Don’t you dote upon the Middle Ages, Mr Carker?", "pos": 884120}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Very much, indeed,", "pos": 884331}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Such charming times! So full of faith! So vigorous and forcible! So picturesque! So perfectly removed from commonplace! Oh dear! If they would only leave us a little more of the poetry of existence in these terrible days! We are dreadfully real, Mr Carker, are we not? Pictures at the Castle, quite divine! I hope you dote upon pictures?", "pos": 884368}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I assure you, Mrs Skewton, that Carker has a very good taste for pictures; quite a natural power of appreciating them. He is a very creditable artist himself. He will be delighted, I am sure, with Mrs Granger’s taste and skill.", "pos": 885226}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme, Sir! my opinion is, that you’re the admirable Carker, and can do anything.", "pos": 885516}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! you are much too sanguine, Major Bagstock. I can do very little. But Mr Dombey is so generous in his estimation of any trivial accomplishment a man like myself may find it almost necessary to acquire, and to which, in his very different sphere, he is far superior, that—", "pos": 885624}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have been to Warwick often, unfortunately?", "pos": 886436}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Several times.", "pos": 886501}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "The visit will be tedious to you, I am afraid.", "pos": 886518}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Oh no; not at all.", "pos": 886567}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Ah! You are like your cousin Feenix, my dearest Edith. He has been to Warwick Castle fifty times, if he has been there once; yet if he came to Leamington to-morrow—I wish he would, dear angel!—he would make his fifty-second visit next day.", "pos": 886588}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "We are all enthusiastic, are we not, Mama?", "pos": 886850}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Too much so, for our peace, perhaps, my dear, but we won’t complain. Our own emotions are our recompense. If, as your cousin Feenix says, the sword wears out the what’s-its-name—", "pos": 886926}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "The scabbard, perhaps,", "pos": 887130}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Exactly—a little too fast, it is because it is bright and glowing, you know, my dearest love.", "pos": 887167}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker, with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!", "pos": 890446}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,", "pos": 890765}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "We have no Faith left, positively. We have no Faith in the dear old Barons, who were the most delightful creatures—or in the dear old Priests, who were the most warlike of men—or even in the days of that inestimable Queen Bess, upon the wall there, which were so extremely golden. Dear creature! She was all Heart And that charming father of hers! I hope you dote on Harry the Eighth!", "pos": 891105}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I admire him very much,", "pos": 891587}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "So bluff! wasn’t he? So burly. So truly English. Such a picture, too, he makes, with his dear little peepy eyes, and his benevolent chin!", "pos": 891626}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Ah, Ma’am! but if you speak of pictures, there’s a composition! What gallery in the world can produce the counterpart of that?", "pos": 891787}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith knows I was admiring her! Sweet pet!", "pos": 893822}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Here, Carker, have the goodness to assist me, will you?", "pos": 894944}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Very true, Carker. Indeed, Carker,", "pos": 895687}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "But I am afraid I trouble you too much,", "pos": 897148}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "By no means. Where would you wish it taken from? I would rather you chose for yourself,", "pos": 897206}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Suppose then, we say from here. It appears a good spot for the purpose, or—Carker, what do you think?", "pos": 897491}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Might I venture to suggest to Mrs Granger, that that is an interesting—almost a curious—point of view?", "pos": 897912}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Will you like that?", "pos": 898281}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I shall be charmed,", "pos": 898328}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "My pencils are all pointless,", "pos": 898577}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Pray allow me. Or Carker will do it better, as he understands these things. Carker, have the goodness to see to these pencils for Mrs Granger.", "pos": 898651}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Are you satisfied with that, or shall I finish it a little more?", "pos": 899480}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It is most extraordinary. I was not prepared for anything so beautiful, and so unusual altogether.", "pos": 899658}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith, my dearest love. Mr Dombey is dying to hear you, I know.", "pos": 902055}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Mr Dombey has life enough left to say so for himself, Mama, I have no doubt.", "pos": 902165}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I shall be immensely obliged,", "pos": 902244}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What do you wish?", "pos": 902292}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Piano?", "pos": 902312}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Whatever you please. You have only to choose.", "pos": 902342}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I hope so. I think so.", "pos": 903383}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I have requested Mrs Granger’s permission to call on her to-morrow morning—for a purpose—and she has appointed twelve o’clock. May I hope to have the pleasure of finding you at home, Madam, afterwards?", "pos": 903671}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, come along! Damme, Sir, old Joe has a great mind to propose an alteration in the name of the Royal Hotel, and that it should be called the Three Jolly Bachelors, in honour of ourselves and Carker.", "pos": 904118}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Why don’t you tell me, that he is coming here to-morrow by appointment?", "pos": 905507}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Because you know it. Mother. You know he has bought me. Or that he will, to-morrow. He has considered of his bargain; he has shown it to his friend; he is even rather proud of it; he thinks that it will suit him, and may be had sufficiently cheap; and he will buy to-morrow. God, that I have lived for this, and that I feel it!", "pos": 905600}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "What do you mean? Haven’t you from a child—", "pos": 906211}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "A child! when was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman—artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men—before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight. Look at me, who have never known what it is to have an honest heart, and love. Look at me, taught to scheme and plot when children play; and married in my youth—an old age of design—to one for whom I had no feeling but indifference. Look at me, whom he left a widow, dying before his inheritance descended to him—a judgment on you! well deserved!—and tell me what has been my life for ten years since.", "pos": 906286}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "We have been making every effort to endeavour to secure to you a good establishment. That has been your life. And now you have got it.", "pos": 907156}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "There is no slave in a market: there is no horse in a fair: so shown and offered and examined and paraded, Mother, as I have been, for ten shameful years. Is it not so? Have I been made the bye-word of all kinds of men? Have fools, have profligates, have boys, have dotards, dangled after me, and one by one rejected me, and fallen off, because you were too plain with all your cunning: yes, and too true, with all those false pretences: until we have almost come to be notorious? The licence of look and touch, have I submitted to it, in half the places of resort upon the map of England? Have I been hawked and vended here and there, until the last grain of self-respect is dead within me, and I loathe myself? Has been my late childhood? I had none before. Do not tell me that I had, tonight of all nights in my life!", "pos": 907316}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You might have been well married, twenty times at least, Edith, if you had given encouragement enough.", "pos": 908253}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "No! Who takes me, refuse that I am, and as I well deserve to be, shall take me, as this man does, with no art of mine put forth to lure him. He sees me at the auction, and he thinks it well to buy me. Let him! When he came to view me—perhaps to bid—he required to see the roll of my accomplishments. I gave it to him. When he would have me show one of them, to justify his purchase to his men, I require of him to say which he demands, and I exhibit it. I will do no more. He makes the purchase of his own will, and with his own sense of its worth, and the power of his money; and I hope it may never disappoint him. I have not vaunted and pressed the bargain; neither have you, so far as I have been able to prevent you.", "pos": 908377}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You talk strangely tonight, Edith, to your own Mother.", "pos": 909189}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It seems so to me; stranger to me than you. But my education was completed long ago. I am too old now, and have fallen too low, by degrees, to take a new course, and to stop yours, and to help myself. The germ of all that purifies a woman’s breast, and makes it true and good, has never stirred in mine, and I have nothing else to sustain me when I despise myself. So, as we are genteel and poor, I am content that we should be made rich by these means; all I say is, I have kept the only purpose I have had the strength to form—I had almost said the power, with you at my side, Mother—and have not tempted this man on.", "pos": 909246}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "This man! You speak, as if you hated him.", "pos": 909993}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "And you thought I loved him, did you not? Shall I tell you, who already knows us thoroughly, and reads us right, and before whom I have even less of self-respect or confidence than before my own inward self; being so much degraded by his knowledge of me?", "pos": 910056}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "This is an attack, I suppose, on poor, unfortunate what’s-his-name—Mr Carker! Your want of self-respect and confidence, my dear, in reference to that person (who is very agreeable, it strikes me), is not likely to have much effect on your establishment. Why do you look at me so hard? Are you ill?", "pos": 910437}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "So the day has come at length, Susan, when we are going back to our quiet home!", "pos": 911328}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Very quiet indeed, Miss Floy, no doubt. Excessive so.", "pos": 911588}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "When I was a child, did you ever see that gentleman who has taken the trouble to ride down here to speak to me, now three times—three times, I think, Susan?", "pos": 911644}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Three times, Miss. Once when you was out a walking with them Sket— With Sir Barnet and his lady, I mean to say, Miss, and the young gentleman. And two evenings since then.", "pos": 911869}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "When I was a child, and when company used to come to visit Papa, did you ever see that gentleman at home, Susan?", "pos": 912132}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well, Miss. I really couldn’t say I ever did. When your poor dear Ma died, Miss Floy, I was very new in the family, you see, and my element: was the floor below the attics.", "pos": 912263}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "To be sure, you are not likely to have known who came to the house. I quite forgot.", "pos": 912581}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Not, Miss, but what we talked about the family and visitors, and but what I heard much said, although the nurse before Mrs Richards make unpleasant remarks when I was in company, and hint at little Pitchers, but that could only be attributed, poor thing, to habits of intoxication, for which she was required to leave, and did. At all events, Miss. I remember very well that this same gentleman, Mr Carker, was almost, if not quite, as great a gentleman with your Papa then, as he is now. It used to be said in the house then, Miss, that he was at the head of all your Pa’s affairs in the City, and managed the whole, and that your Pa minded him more than anybody, which, begging your pardon, Miss Floy, he might easy do, for he never minded anybody else. I knew that, Pitcher as I might have been. And that Mr Carker has not fallen off, Miss,", "pos": 912704}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet", "text": "How are you, Toots?", "pos": 921434}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How de do, Sir Barnet? What a surprising thing that I should see you here! I never was so surprised! Is Miss Dombey there? Oh, Diogenes is quite well, Miss Dombey. I called to ask this morning.", "pos": 921558}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Thank you very much!", "pos": 922031}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet", "text": "Won’t you come ashore, Toots? Come! you’re in no hurry. Come and see us.", "pos": 922098}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh, it’s of no consequence, thank you! I thought Miss Dombey might like to know, that’s all. Good-bye! Oh, how de do, Miss Dombey? thank you, I’m very well indeed, I hope you’re the same, so was Diogenes yesterday.", "pos": 922202}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You are very kind,", "pos": 923016}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Thank you, it’s of no consequence. I thought perhaps you wouldn’t mind, in this fine weather, coming home by water, Miss Dombey. There’s plenty of room in the boat for your maid.", "pos": 923052}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am very much obliged to you. I really am—but I would rather not.", "pos": 923254}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh, it’s of no consequence. Good morning.", "pos": 923352}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Won’t you wait and see Lady Skettles?", "pos": 923417}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh no, thank you, it’s of no consequence at all.", "pos": 923481}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet", "text": "We are losing, today, Toots, the light of our house, I assure you", "pos": 923915}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh, it’s of no conseq—I mean yes, to be sure. Good morning!", "pos": 924028}
{"speaker": "Sir Barnet", "text": "May I beg of you, my dear Miss Dombey, to present my best compliments to your dear Papa?", "pos": 924355}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I shall be glad to see it again, I don’t deny, Miss. There ain’t much in it to boast of, but I wouldn’t have it burnt or pulled down, neither!", "pos": 926513}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You’ll be glad to go through the old rooms, won’t you, Susan?", "pos": 926677}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well, Miss. I won’t deny but what I shall, though I shall hate ’em again, to-morrow, very likely.", "pos": 926765}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Why, Gracious me! where’s our house!", "pos": 928044}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Our house!", "pos": 928110}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "There is nothing the matter?", "pos": 929344}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Oh no, Miss.", "pos": 929394}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "There are great alterations going on.", "pos": 929409}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "Yes, Miss, great alterations,", "pos": 929449}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "At home! and wishing to speak to me!", "pos": 930510}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Florence,", "pos": 930554}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "how do you do? What dog is that?", "pos": 931430}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It is a dog, Papa—from Brighton.", "pos": 931687}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Well!", "pos": 931722}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "He is very good-tempered. He is only glad to see me. Pray forgive him.", "pos": 931803}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Skewton, this is my daughter Florence.", "pos": 932174}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Charming, I am sure. So natural! My darling Florence, you must kiss me, if you please.", "pos": 932286}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Edith, this is my daughter Florence. Florence, this lady will soon be your Mama.", "pos": 932508}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, Papa, may you be happy! may you be very, very happy all your life!", "pos": 932845}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Shall we go on through the rooms, and see how our workmen are doing? Pray allow me, my dear madam. Let us ask Edith. Dear me, where is she?", "pos": 933355}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith, my dear! where are you? Looking for Mr Dombey somewhere, I know. We are here, my love.", "pos": 933890}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Florence. You will not begin by hating me?", "pos": 934046}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "By hating you, Mama?", "pos": 934455}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Hush! Begin by thinking well of me. Begin by believing that I will try to make you happy, and that I am prepared to love you, Florence. Good-bye. We shall meet again soon. Good-bye! Don’t stay here, now.", "pos": 934550}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "How is my sweetest friend!", "pos": 940470}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Lucretia, thank you, I am pretty well. I hope you are the same. Hem!", "pos": 940648}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You call very early, and how kind that is, my dear! Now, have you breakfasted?", "pos": 940850}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Thank you, Lucretia. I have. I took an early breakfast with my brother, who has come home.", "pos": 940951}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "He is better, I trust, my love,", "pos": 941166}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "He is greatly better, thank you. Hem!", "pos": 941219}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa must be careful of that cough", "pos": 941259}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "It’s nothing. It’s merely change of weather. We must expect change.", "pos": 941325}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Of weather?", "pos": 941417}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Of everything. Of course we must. It’s a world of change. Anyone would surprise me very much, Lucretia, and would greatly alter my opinion of their understanding, if they attempted to contradict or evade what is so perfectly evident. Change! Why, my gracious me, what is there that does not change! even the silkworm, who I am sure might be supposed not to trouble itself about such subjects, changes into all sorts of unexpected things continually.", "pos": 941466}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My Louisa, is ever happy in her illustrations.", "pos": 941987}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "You are so kind, Lucretia, as to say so, and to think so, I believe. I hope neither of us may ever have any cause to lessen our opinion of the other, Lucretia.", "pos": 942062}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I am sure of it,", "pos": 942265}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Pardon me, my dear Louisa, but have I caught sight of the manly form of Mr Chick in the carriage? He is there, but pray leave him there. He has his newspaper, and would be quite contented for the next two hours. Go on with your flowers, Lucretia, and allow me to sit here and rest.", "pos": 942617}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My Louisa knows, that between friends like ourselves, any approach to ceremony would be out of the question. Therefore—", "pos": 942938}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Florence has returned home also, and really Florence is a great deal too old now, to continue to lead that solitary life to which she has been accustomed. Of course she is. There can be no doubt about it. I should have very little respect, indeed, for anybody who could advocate a different opinion. Whatever my wishes might be, I could not respect them. We cannot command our feelings to such an extent as that. If she’s a strange girl, and if my brother Paul cannot feel perfectly comfortable in her society, after all the sad things that have happened, and all the terrible disappointments that have been undergone, then, what is the reply? That he must make an effort. That he is bound to make an effort. We have always been a family remarkable for effort. Paul is at the head of the family; almost the only representative of it left—for what am I—I am of no consequence—", "pos": 943321}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dearest love,", "pos": 944430}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "And consequently he is more than ever bound to make an effort. And though his having done so, comes upon me with a sort of shock—for mine is a very weak and foolish nature; which is anything but a blessing I am sure; I often wish my heart was a marble slab, or a paving-stone—", "pos": 944554}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My sweet Louisa,", "pos": 944833}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Still, it is a triumph to me to know that he is so true to himself, and to his name of Dombey; although, of course, I always knew he would be. I only hope, that she may be worthy of the name too.", "pos": 944881}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "My dear Louisa, will it be the least satisfaction to you, if I venture to observe in reference to that remark, that I, as a humble individual, think your sweet niece in every way most promising?", "pos": 945415}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "What do you mean, Lucretia? To what remark of mine, my dear, do you refer?", "pos": 945629}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Her being worthy of her name, my love,", "pos": 945766}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "If. I have not expressed myself with clearness, Lucretia, the fault of course is mine. There is, perhaps, no reason why I should express myself at all, except the intimacy that has subsisted between us, and which I very much hope, Lucretia—confidently hope—nothing will occur to disturb. Because, why should I do anything else? There is no reason; it would be absurd. But I wish to express myself clearly, Lucretia; and therefore to go back to that remark, I must beg to say that it was not intended to relate to Florence, in any way.", "pos": 945825}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Indeed!", "pos": 946402}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "No,", "pos": 946431}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Pardon me, my dear, but I cannot have understood it. I fear I am dull.", "pos": 946476}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "When I speak, Lucretia, of her being worthy of the name, I speak of my brother Paul’s second wife. I believe I have already said, in effect, if not in the very words I now use, that it is his intention to marry a second wife. Whether she will be fully sensible of the distinction conferred upon her, is quite another question. I hope she may be. We are bound to think well of one another in this world, and I hope she may be. I have not been advised with myself. If I had been advised with, I have no doubt my advice would have been cavalierly received, and therefore it is infinitely better as it is. I much prefer it as it is. If my brother Paul had consulted with me, which he sometimes does—or rather, sometimes used to do; for he will naturally do that no more now, and this is a circumstance which I regard as a relief from responsibility, for I thank Heaven I am not jealous— if my brother Paul had come to me, and had said, ‘Louisa, what kind of qualities would you advise me to look out for, in a wife?’ I should certainly have answered, ‘Paul, you must have family, you must have beauty, you must have dignity, you must have connexion.’ Those are the words I should have used. You might have led me to the block immediately afterwards, but I should have used them. I should have said, ‘Paul! You to marry a second time without family! You to marry without beauty! You to marry without dignity! You to marry without connexion! There is nobody in the world, not mad, who could dream of daring to entertain such a preposterous idea!’ I should have adopted this course of argument, because I trust I am not a fool. I make no claim to be considered a person of superior intellect—though I believe some people have been extraordinary enough to consider me so; one so little humoured as I am, would very soon be disabused of any such notion; but I trust I am not a downright fool. And to tell ME, that my brother Paul Dombey could ever contemplate the possibility of uniting himself to anybody—I don’t care who not possessing these requisites, would be to insult what understanding I have got, as much as if I was to be told that I was born and bred an elephant, which I may be told next. It wouldn’t surprise me at all. I expect it. Therefore, of course my brother Paul has done what was to be expected of him, and what anybody might have foreseen he would do, if he entered the marriage state again. I confess it takes me rather by surprise, however gratifying; because when Paul went out of town I had no idea at all that he would form any attachment out of town, and he certainly had no attachment when he left here. However, it seems to be extremely desirable in every point of view. I have no doubt the mother is a most genteel and elegant creature, and I have no right whatever to dispute the policy of her living with them: which is Paul’s affair, not mine—and as to Paul’s choice, herself, I have only seen her picture yet, but that is beautiful indeed. Her name is beautiful too. Edith is at once uncommon, as it strikes me, and distinguished. Consequently, Lucretia, I have no doubt you will be happy to hear that the marriage is to take place immediately—of course, you will: and that you are delighted with this change in the condition of my brother, who has shown you a great deal of pleasant attention at various times.", "pos": 946876}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Lucretia! I will not attempt to disguise what I feel. My eyes are opened, all at once. I wouldn’t have believed this, if a Saint had told it to me.", "pos": 954276}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I am foolish to give way to faintness. I shall be better presently.", "pos": 954443}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "You will be better presently, Lucretia! Do you suppose I am blind? Do you imagine I am in my second childhood? No, Lucretia! I am obliged to you! If anyone had told me this yesterday, or even half-an-hour ago, I should have been tempted, I almost believe, to strike them to the earth. Lucretia Tox, my eyes are opened to you all at once. The scales: have fallen from my sight. The blindness of my confidence is past, Lucretia. It has been abused and played, upon, and evasion is quite out of the question now, I assure you.", "pos": 954534}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh! to what do you allude so cruelly, my love?", "pos": 955345}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Lucretia, ask your own heart. I must entreat you not to address me by any such familiar term as you have just used, if you please. I have some self-respect left, though you may think otherwise.", "pos": 955429}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh, Louisa! How can you speak to me like that?", "pos": 955643}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "How can I speak to you like that? Like that! You may well say like that, indeed!", "pos": 955710}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "The idea!", "pos": 955988}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "of your having basked at my brother’s fireside, like a serpent, and wound yourself, through me, almost into his confidence, Lucretia, that you might, in secret, entertain designs upon him, and dare to aspire to contemplate the possibility of his uniting himself to you! Why, it is an idea, the absurdity of which almost relieves its treachery.", "pos": 956016}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Pray, Louisa, do not say such dreadful things.", "pos": 956404}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Dreadful things! Dreadful things! Is it not a fact, Lucretia, that you have just now been unable to command your feelings even before me, whose eyes you had so completely closed?", "pos": 956471}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I have made no complaint. I have said nothing. If I have been a little overpowered by your news, Louisa, and have ever had any lingering thought that Mr Dombey was inclined to be particular towards me, surely you will not condemn me.", "pos": 956674}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "She is going to say. She is going to say—I know it—that I have encouraged her!", "pos": 956928}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I don’t wish to exchange reproaches, dear Louisa. Nor do I wish to complain. But, in my own defence—", "pos": 957130}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Yes, that’s what she’s going to say. I knew it. You had better say it. Say it openly! Be open, Lucretia Tox, whatever you are.", "pos": 957252}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "In my own defence, and only in my own defence against your unkind words, my dear Louisa, I would merely ask you if you haven’t often favoured such a fancy, and even said it might happen, for anything we could tell?", "pos": 957491}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "There is a point, beyond which endurance becomes ridiculous, if not culpable. I can bear much; but not too much. What spell was on me when I came into this house this day, I don’t know; but I had a presentiment—a dark presentiment, that something was going to happen. Well may I have had that foreboding, Lucretia, when my confidence of many years is destroyed in an instant, when my eyes are opened all at once, and when I find you revealed in your true colours. Lucretia, I have been mistaken in you. It is better for us both that this subject should end here. I wish you well, and I shall ever wish you well. But, as an individual who desires to be true to herself in her own poor position, whatever that position may be, or may not be—and as the sister of my brother—and as the sister-in-law of my brother’s wife—and as a connexion by marriage of my brother’s wife’s mother—may I be permitted to add, as a Dombey?—I can wish you nothing else but good morning.", "pos": 957729}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Oh the extent to which her eyes had been opened that day!", "pos": 959739}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "To which your eyes have been opened, my dear!", "pos": 959799}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Oh, don’t talk to me! if you can bear to see me in this state, and not ask me what the matter is, you had better hold your tongue for ever.", "pos": 959866}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "What is the matter, my dear?", "pos": 960024}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "To think, that she should ever have conceived the base idea of connecting herself with our family by a marriage with Paul! To think that when she was playing at horses with that dear child who is now in his grave—I never liked it at the time—she should have been hiding such a double-faced design! I wonder she was never afraid that something would happen to her. She is fortunate if nothing does.", "pos": 960070}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "I really thought, my dear, that you had gone on the same tack yourself, all along, until this morning; and had thought it would be a convenient thing enough, if it could have been brought about.", "pos": 960513}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "But with Lucretia Tox I have done. I can bear to resign Paul’s confidence in favour of one who, I hope and trust, may be deserving of it, and with whom he has a perfect right to replace poor Fanny if he chooses; I can bear to be informed, in Paul’s cool manner, of such a change in his plans, and never to be consulted until all is settled and determined; but deceit I can not bear, and with Lucretia Tox I have done. It is better as it is, much better. It would have been a long time before I could have accommodated myself comfortably with her, after this; and I really don’t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite presentable, and might not have compromised myself. There’s a providence in everything; everything works for the best; I have been tried today but on the whole I do not regret it.", "pos": 960936}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama! Come again!", "pos": 965131}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Not Mama yet,", "pos": 965191}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "But very soon to be,", "pos": 965295}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Very soon now, Florence: very soon. Have you been alone, Florence, since I was here last?", "pos": 965334}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh yes! I—I—am used to be alone. I don’t mind it at all. Di and I pass whole days together, sometimes.", "pos": 965861}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Is Di your maid, love?", "pos": 966210}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "My dog, Mama. Susan is my maid.", "pos": 966235}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "And these are your rooms. I was not shown these rooms the other day. We must have them improved, Florence. They shall be made the prettiest in the house.", "pos": 966296}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "If I might change them, Mama, there is one upstairs I should like much better.", "pos": 966481}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Is this not high enough, dear girl?", "pos": 966583}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "The other was my brother’s room, and I am very fond of it. I would have spoken to Papa about it when I came home, and found the workmen here, and everything changing; but— but I was afraid it might distress him; and as you said you would be here again soon, Mama, and are the mistress of everything, I determined to take courage and ask you.", "pos": 966643}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "We have come to London now, my mother and I, and you shall stay with us until I am married. I wish that we should know and trust each other, Florence.", "pos": 968420}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You are very kind to me, dear Mama. How much I thank you!", "pos": 968587}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Let me say now, for it may be the best opportunity, that when I am married, and have gone away for some weeks, I shall be easier at heart if you will come home here. No matter who invites you to stay elsewhere. Come home here. It is better to be alone than—what I would say is, that I know well you are best at home, dear Florence.", "pos": 968664}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I will come home on the very day, Mama", "pos": 969128}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Do so. I rely on that promise. Now, prepare to come with me, dear girl. You will find me downstairs when you are ready.", "pos": 969169}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And how, is my charming Florence? You must come and kiss me, Florence, if you please, my love. Edith, my dear, positively, I—stand a little more in the light, my sweetest Florence, for a moment. You don’t remember, dearest Edith, what you were when you were about the same age as our exceedingly precious Florence, or a few years younger?", "pos": 972885}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have long forgotten, mother.", "pos": 973528}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "For positively, my dear. I do think that I see a decided resemblance to what you were then, in our extremely fascinating young friend. And it shows, what cultivation will do.", "pos": 973561}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It does, indeed,", "pos": 973869}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My charming Florence, you must come and kiss me once more, if you please, my love. And you have heard, no doubt, my darling pet, that your Papa, whom we all perfectly adore and dote upon, is to be married to my dearest Edith this day week.", "pos": 974015}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I knew it would be very soon, but not exactly when.", "pos": 974380}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My darling Edith, is it possible you have not told Florence?", "pos": 974455}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Why should I tell Florence?", "pos": 974545}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I hear him now! He is coming!", "pos": 975920}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Dombey, come here and tell me how your pretty Florence is.", "pos": 976480}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Florence is very well,", "pos": 976567}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "At home?", "pos": 976637}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "At home,", "pos": 976648}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Dombey, now are you sure you are not deceiving me? I don’t know what my dearest Edith will say to me when I make such a declaration, but upon my honour I am afraid you are the falsest of men, my dear Dombey.", "pos": 976675}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Now, confess, my dear Dombey, that you never were more surprised and pleased in your life.", "pos": 977483}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I never was more surprised,", "pos": 977617}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Nor pleased, my dearest Dombey?", "pos": 977663}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I—yes, I am exceedingly glad to meet Florence here. Yes, I really am very glad indeed to meet Florence here.", "pos": 977739}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You wonder how she comes here? don’t you?", "pos": 977954}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Edith, perhaps—", "pos": 978018}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Ah! wicked guesser! Ah! cunning, cunning man! One shouldn’t tell these things; your sex, my dear Dombey, are so vain, and so apt to abuse our weakness; but you know my open soul—very well; immediately. But Edith, my dear Dombey, when she cannot have you near her—and as I tell her, she cannot expect that always—will at least have near her something or somebody belonging to you. Well, how extremely natural that is! And in this spirit, nothing would keep her from riding off today to fetch our darling Florence. Well, how excessively charming that is!", "pos": 978057}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Eminently so.", "pos": 978807}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Bless you, my dear Dombey, for that proof of heart! But I am growing too serious! Take me downstairs, like an angel, and let us see what these people intend to give us for dinner. Bless you, dear Dombey!", "pos": 978823}
{"speaker": "Cleopatras", "text": "And so your preparations are nearly finished at last, my dear Dombey?", "pos": 980084}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Even the lawyers” preparations!", "pos": 980257}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes, madam, the deed of settlement, the professional gentlemen inform me, is now ready, and as I was mentioning to you, Edith has only to do us the favour to suggest her own time for its execution.", "pos": 980291}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest love, do you hear what Mr Dombey says? Ah, my dear Dombey! how her absence, as the time approaches, reminds me of the days, when that most agreeable of creatures, her Papa, was in your situation!", "pos": 980580}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have nothing to suggest. It shall be when you please,", "pos": 980834}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "To-morrow?", "pos": 980950}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "If you please.", "pos": 980984}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Or would next day, suit your engagements better?", "pos": 981001}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have no engagements. I am always at your disposal. Let it be when you like.", "pos": 981070}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "No engagements, my dear Edith! when you are in a most terrible state of flurry all day long, and have a thousand and one appointments with all sorts of trades-people!", "pos": 981150}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "They are of your making. You and Mr Dombey can arrange between you.", "pos": 981346}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Very true indeed, my love, and most considerate of you! My darling Florence, you must really come and kiss me once more, if you please, my dear!", "pos": 981488}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Dombey, you will leave me Florence to-morrow, when you deprive me of my sweetest Edith.", "pos": 987715}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "with pleasure.", "pos": 987855}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "To have her about me, here, while you are both at Paris, and to think at her age, I am assisting in the formation of her mind, my dear Dombey, will be a perfect balm to me in the extremely shattered state to which I shall be reduced.", "pos": 987871}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mr Dombey would be delighted to leave Florence in such admirable guardianship.", "pos": 988305}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Dombey, a thousand thanks for your good opinion. I feared you were going, with malice aforethought, as the dreadful lawyers say—those horrid prosers!—to condemn me to utter solitude.", "pos": 988385}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Why do me so great an injustice, my dear madam?", "pos": 988600}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Because my charming Florence tells me so positively she must go home tomorrow, returned Cleopatra, that I began to be afraid, my dearest Dombey, you were quite a Bashaw.", "pos": 988666}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I assure you, madam! I have laid no commands on Florence; and if I had, there are no commands like your wish.", "pos": 988838}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Dombey, what a courtier you are! Though I’ll not say so, either; for courtiers have no heart, and yours pervades your farming life and character. And are you really going so early, my dear Dombey! Is this a fact, or is it all a dream! Can I believe, my dearest Dombey, that you are coming back tomorrow morning to deprive me of my sweet companion; my own Edith! The pang, of consigning a child, even to you, my dear Dombey, is one of the most excruciating imaginable, and combined with a naturally delicate constitution, and the extreme stupidity of the pastry-cook who has undertaken the breakfast, is almost too much for my poor strength. But I shall rally, my dear Dombey, in the morning; do not fear for me, or be uneasy on my account. Heaven bless you! My dearest Edith! Somebody is going, pet.", "pos": 988968}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Tomorrow morning I shall have the happiness of claiming this hand as Mrs Dombey’s,", "pos": 990367}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "I am tired to death. You can’t be trusted for a moment. You are worse than a child. Child! No child would be half so obstinate and undutiful.", "pos": 991528}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Listen to me, mother. You must remain alone here until I return.", "pos": 991684}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Must remain alone here, Edith, until you return!", "pos": 991849}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Or in that name upon which I shall call to-morrow to witness what I do, so falsely: and so shamefully, I swear I will refuse the hand of this man in the church. If I do not, may I fall dead upon the pavement! It is enough, that we are what we are. I will have no youth and truth dragged down to my level. I will have no guileless nature undermined, corrupted, and perverted, to amuse the leisure of a world of mothers. You know my meaning. Florence must go home.", "pos": 991921}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "You are an idiot, Edith. Do you expect there can ever be peace for you in that house, till she is married, and away?", "pos": 992505}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Ask me, or ask yourself, if I ever expect peace in that house, and you know the answer.", "pos": 992650}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And am I to be told tonight, after all my pains and labour, and when you are going, through me, to be rendered independent, that there is corruption and contagion in me, and that I am not fit company for a girl! What are you, pray? What are you?", "pos": 992760}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have put the question to myself, more than once when I have been sitting there, and something in the faded likeness of my sex has wandered past outside; and God knows I have met with my reply. Oh mother, mother, if you had but left me to my natural heart when I too was a girl—a younger girl than Florence—how different I might have been!", "pos": 993095}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "If one is to go on living through continual scenes like this, I am sure it would be much better for me to think of some means of putting an end to my existence. Oh! The idea of your being my daughter, Edith, and addressing me in such a strain!", "pos": 993814}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Between us, mother, the time for mutual reproaches is past.", "pos": 994074}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Then why do you revive it? You know that you are lacerating me in the cruellest manner. You know how sensitive I am to unkindness. At such a moment, too, when I have so much to think of, and am naturally anxious to appear to the best advantage! I wonder at you, Edith. To make your mother a fright upon your wedding-day!", "pos": 994190}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have said that Florence must go home.", "pos": 994694}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Let her go! I am sure I am willing she should go. What is the girl to me?", "pos": 994736}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "She is so much to me, that rather than communicate, or suffer to be communicated to her, one grain of the evil that is in my breast, mother, I would renounce you, as I would (if you gave me cause) renounce him in the church to-morrow. Leave her alone. She shall not, while I can interpose, be tampered with and tainted by the lessons I have learned. This is no hard condition on this bitter night.", "pos": 994866}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "If you had proposed it in a filial manner, Edith, perhaps not; very likely not. But such extremely cutting words—", "pos": 995283}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "They are past and at an end between us now. Take your own way, mother; share as you please in what you have gained; spend, enjoy, make much of it; and be as happy as you will. The object of our lives is won. Henceforth let us wear it silently. My lips are closed upon the past from this hour. I forgive you your part in to-morrow’s wickedness. May God forgive my own!", "pos": 995420}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Now, Chicken, I will not deceive you any longer; the friend I have sometimes mentioned to you is myself; Miss Dombey is the object of my passion; what are your opinions, Chicken, in this state of things, and what, on the spot, do you advise?", "pos": 1003742}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "put about, overhaul that “ere article again,", "pos": 1004805}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Dombey! Major,", "pos": 1007003}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey! how are you?", "pos": 1007045}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Major, how are You?", "pos": 1007086}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By Jove, Sir, Joey B. is in such case this morning, Sir. In such case this morning, Sir, that, damme, Dombey, he has half a mind to make a double marriage of it, Sir, and take the mother.", "pos": 1007108}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "As to Edith Granger, Sir, there is not a woman in all Europe but might—and would, Sir, you will allow Bagstock to add—and would—give her ears, and her earrings, too, to be in Edith Granger’s place.", "pos": 1007892}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You are good enough to say so, Major,", "pos": 1008092}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, you know it. Let us have no false delicacy. You know it. Do you know it, or do you not, Dombey?", "pos": 1008169}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Oh, really, Major—", "pos": 1008312}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme, Sir, do you know that fact, or do you not? Dombey! Is old Joe your friend? Are we on that footing of unreserved intimacy, Dombey, that may justify a man—a blunt old Joseph B., Sir—in speaking out; or am I to take open order, Dombey, and to keep my distance, and to stand on forms?", "pos": 1008354}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "My dear Major Bagstock, you are quite warm.", "pos": 1008644}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "By Gad, Sir, I am warm. Joseph B. does not deny it, Dombey. He is warm. This is an occasion, Sir, that calls forth all the honest sympathies remaining in an old, infernal, battered, used-up, invalided, J. B. carcase. And I tell you what, Dombey—at such a time a man must blurt out what he feels, or put a muzzle on; and Joseph Bagstock tells you to your face, Dombey, as he tells his club behind your back, that he never will be muzzled when Paul Dombey is in question. Now, damme, Sir, what do you make of that? Major,", "pos": 1008748}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I assure you that I am really obliged to you. I had no idea of checking your too partial friendship.", "pos": 1009325}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Not too partial, Sir! Dombey, I deny it.", "pos": 1009435}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Your friendship I will say then, on any account. Nor can I forget, Major, on such an occasion as the present, how much I am indebted to it.", "pos": 1009509}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, that is the hand of Joseph Bagstock: of plain old Joey B., Sir, if you like that better! That is the hand, of which His Royal Highness the late Duke of York, did me the honour to observe, Sir, to His Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent, that it was the hand of Josh: a rough and tough, and possibly an up-to-snuff, old vagabond. Dombey, may the present moment be the least unhappy of our lives. God bless you!", "pos": 1009715}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "The very day is auspicious. The brightest and most genial weather! I hope I am not a moment late?", "pos": 1010440}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Punctual to your time, Sir,", "pos": 1010558}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am rejoiced, I am sure. I was afraid I might be a few seconds after the appointed time, for I was delayed by a procession of waggons; and I took the liberty of riding round to Brook Street to leave a few poor rarities of flowers for Mrs Dombey. A man in my position, and so distinguished as to be invited here, is proud to offer some homage in acknowledgment of his vassalage: and as I have no doubt Mrs Dombey is overwhelmed with what is costly and magnificent; I hope the very poverty of my offering, may find favour for it.", "pos": 1010604}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey, that is to be, will be very sensible of your attention, Carker, I am sure.", "pos": 1011212}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "And if she is to be Mrs Dombey this morning, Sir, it’s high time we were off!", "pos": 1011339}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear Dombey. I fear I must relinquish darling Florence after all, and suffer her to go home, as she herself proposed. After my loss of today, my dear Dombey, I feel I shall not have spirits, even for her society.", "pos": 1013528}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Had she not better stay with you?", "pos": 1013768}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "I think not, my dear Dombey. No, I think not. I shall be better alone. Besides, my dearest Edith will be her natural and constant guardian when you return, and I had better not encroach upon her trust, perhaps. She might be jealous. Eh, dear Edith? To be serious, my dear Dombey. I will relinquish our dear child, and not inflict my gloom upon her. We have settled that, just now. She fully understands, dear Dombey. Edith, my dear,—she fully understands.", "pos": 1013828}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?", "pos": 1015005}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Confound it, when we do get a rich City fellow into the family, let us show him some attention; let us do something for him. I give this woman to be married to this man,", "pos": 1015122}
{"speaker": "Mrs Miff", "text": "There ain’t a many ladies come here, writes their names like this good lady!", "pos": 1016274}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "If wishes, are not superfluous, applied to such a union.", "pos": 1017440}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I thank you, Sir,", "pos": 1017525}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am proud to see. I am proud to see that my humble offering is graced by Mrs Dombey’s hand, and permitted to hold so favoured a place in so joyful an occasion. that my humble offering is graced by Mrs Dombey’s hand, and permitted to hold so favoured a place in so joyful an occasion.", "pos": 1018032}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Upon my honour, although it’s an unusual sort of thing in a private gentleman’s house, I must beg leave to call upon you to drink what is usually called a—in fact a toast. A—in fact it’s not a—", "pos": 1023335}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Hear, hear!", "pos": 1023784}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "It is, an occasion in fact, when the general usages of life may be a little departed from, without impropriety; and although I never was an orator in my life, and when I was in the House of Commons, and had the honour of seconding the address, was—in fact, was laid up for a fortnight with the consciousness of failure— And in point of fact, when I was devilish ill—still, you know, I feel that a duty devolves upon me. And when a duty devolves upon an Englishman, he is bound to get out of it, in my opinion, in the best way he can. Well! our family has had the gratification, today, of connecting itself, in the person of my lovely and accomplished relative, whom I now see—in point of fact, present— Present, with one who—that is to say, with a man, at whom the finger of scorn can never—in fact, with my honourable friend Dombey, if he will allow me to call him so. I have not, enjoyed those opportunities which I could have desired, of cultivating the acquaintance of my friend Dombey, and studying those qualities which do equal honour to his head, and, in point of fact, to his heart; for it has been my misfortune to be, as we used to say in my time in the House of Commons, when it was not the custom to allude to the Lords, and when the order of parliamentary proceedings was perhaps better observed than it is now—to be in—in point of fact, in another place! But I know sufficient of my friend Dombey, to know that he is, in point of fact, what may be emphatically called a—a merchant—a British merchant—and a—and a man. And although I have been resident abroad, for some years (it would give me great pleasure to receive my friend Dombey, and everybody here, at Baden-Baden, and to have an opportunity of making ’em known to the Grand Duke), still I know enough, I flatter myself, of my lovely and accomplished relative, to know that she possesses every requisite to make a man happy, and that her marriage with my friend Dombey is one of inclination and affection on both sides. Therefore. I congratulate the family of which I am a member, on the acquisition of my friend Dombey. I congratulate my friend Dombey on his union with my lovely and accomplished relative who possesses every requisite to make a man happy; and I take the liberty of calling on you all, in point of fact, to congratulate both my friend Dombey and my lovely and accomplished relative, on the present occasion.", "pos": 1024097}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "the happy pair;", "pos": 1028383}
{"speaker": "the silver-headed butler", "text": "to which the silver-headed butler has responded neatly, and with emotion;", "pos": 1028399}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey's cook", "text": "it is impossible to settle down after this, and why not go, in a party, to the play?", "pos": 1028726}
{"speaker": "housemaid", "text": "marriages to be made in Heaven Lord forbid, at any rate, that she should ever marry him.", "pos": 1029253}
{"speaker": "the silver-headed butler", "text": "Mr Towlinson, whom to know is to esteem, and to esteem is to wish well settled in life with the object of his choice, wherever", "pos": 1029573}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "they may find favour, sometimes, with weak and inconstant intellects that can be led away by hair, but all he hopes, is, he may never hear of no foreigner never boning nothing out of no travelling chariot.", "pos": 1029893}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until death do them part.", "pos": 1035715}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Now, my lad, stand by! If ever I’m took—", "pos": 1038730}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Took, Captain!", "pos": 1038773}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ah! if ever I goes away, meaning to come back to supper, and don’t come within hail again, twenty-four hours arter my loss, go you to Brig Place and whistle that “ere tune near my old moorings—not as if you was a meaning of it, you understand, but as if you’d drifted there, promiscuous. If I answer in that tune, you sheer off, my lad, and come back four-and-twenty hours arterwards; if I answer in another tune, do you stand off and on, and wait till I throw out further signals. Do you understand them orders, now?", "pos": 1038837}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "What am I to stand off and on of, Captain? The horse-road?", "pos": 1039387}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Here’s a smart lad for you! as don’t know his own native alphabet! Go away a bit and come back again alternate—d’ye understand that?", "pos": 1039464}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Captain,", "pos": 1039639}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Very good my lad, then. Do it!", "pos": 1039665}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What’s that?", "pos": 1046747}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Somebody’s knuckles, Captain,", "pos": 1046791}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "A job for Burgess and Co. at any rate. Oh, how-de-do, Mr Gills?", "pos": 1047277}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "Thankee. I’m very well indeed, myself, I’m much obliged to you. My name is Toots,—Mister Toots.", "pos": 1047632}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I say! I should like to speak a word to you, Mr Gills, if you please. I say! Miss D.O.M. you know! Oh! I beg your pardon though, you don’t happen to know the Chicken at all; do you, Mr Gills?", "pos": 1048151}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "The Chicken?", "pos": 1048664}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "The Game Chicken. Because he’s outside: that’s all. But it’s of no consequence; he won’t get very wet, perhaps.", "pos": 1048697}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "I can pass the word for him in a moment,", "pos": 1049132}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Well, if you would have the goodness to let him sit in the shop with your young man. I should be glad; because, you know, he’s easily offended, and the damp’s rather bad for his stamina. I’ll call him in, Mr Gills. Sit down, Chicken,", "pos": 1049193}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "There ain’t no drain of nothing short handy, is there? This here sluicing night is hard lines to a man as lives on his condition. Towards us!", "pos": 1049908}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Mr Gills—", "pos": 1050356}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Awast! My name’s Cuttle. Cap’en Cuttle is my name, and England is my nation, this here is my dwelling-place, and blessed be creation—Job,", "pos": 1050368}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh! I couldn’t see Mr Gills, could I? because—", "pos": 1050653}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "If you could see Sol Gills, young gen’l’m’n, old Sol, mind you—with your own eyes—as you sit there—you’d be welcomer to me, than a wind astern, to a ship becalmed. But you can’t see Sol Gills. And why can’t you see Sol Gills? Because he’s inwisible.", "pos": 1050719}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Lor bless me!", "pos": 1051290}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "That there man. That there man has left me in charge here by a piece of writing, but though he was a’most as good as my sworn brother, I know no more where he’s gone, or why he’s gone; if so be to seek his nevy, or if so be along of being not quite settled in his mind; than you do. One morning at daybreak, he went over the side, without a splash, without a ripple I have looked for that man high and low, and never set eyes, nor ears, nor nothing else, upon him from that hour.", "pos": 1051306}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "But, good Gracious, Miss Dombey don’t know—", "pos": 1051813}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, I ask you, as a feeling heart, why should she know? why should she be made to know, until such time as there wam’t any help for it? She took to old Sol Gills, did that sweet creetur, with a kindness, with a affability, with a—what’s the good of saying so? you know her.", "pos": 1051875}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I should hope so,", "pos": 1052192}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And you come here from her?", "pos": 1052291}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I should think so,", "pos": 1052339}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Then all I need observe, is, that you know a angel, and are chartered a angel.", "pos": 1052379}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Upon my word and honour. I should be very much obliged to you if you’d improve my acquaintance. I should like to know you, Captain, very much. I really am in want of a friend, I am. Little Dombey was my friend at old Blimber’s, and would have been now, if he’d have lived. The Chicken, is very well—admirable in his way—the sharpest man perhaps in the world; there’s not a move he isn’t up to, everybody says so—but I don’t know—he’s not everything. So she is an angel, Captain. If there is an angel anywhere, it’s Miss Dombey. That’s what I’ve always said. Really though, you know. I should be very much obliged to you if you’d cultivate my acquaintance.", "pos": 1052570}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay, ay, my lad. We shall see, we shall see;", "pos": 1053444}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Why the fact is, that it’s the young woman I come from. Not Miss Dombey—Susan, you know. And I’ll tell you how it happens. You know, I go and call sometimes, on Miss Dombey. I don’t go there on purpose, you know, but I happen to be in the neighbourhood very often; and when I find myself there, why—why I call.", "pos": 1053606}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Nat’rally,", "pos": 1054090}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Yes. I called this afternoon. Upon my word and honour, I don’t think it’s possible to form an idea of the angel Miss Dombey was this afternoon. As I was coming out, the young woman, in the most unexpected manner, took me into the pantry. Where she brought out, this newspaper. She told me that she had kept it from Miss Dombey all day, on account of something that was in it, about somebody that she and Dombey used to know; and then she read the passage to me. Very well. Then she said—wait a minute; what was it she said, though! Oh! Oh, ah! Yes! She said that she hoped there was a bare possibility that it mightn’t be true; and that as she couldn’t very well come out herself, without surprising Miss Dombey, would I go down to Mr Solomon Gills the Instrument-maker’s in this street, who was the party’s Uncle, and ask whether he believed it was true, or had heard anything else in the City. She said, if he couldn’t speak to me, no doubt Captain Cuttle could. By the bye! you, you know! Well. Well, the reason why I’m rather late is, because I went up as far as Finchley first, to get some uncommonly fine chickweed that grows there, for Miss Dombey’s bird. But I came on here, directly afterwards. You’ve seen the paper, I suppose? Shall I read the passage to you? Southampton. The barque Defiance, Henry James, Commander, arrived in this port today, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, and rum, reports that being becalmed on the sixth day of her passage home from Jamaica, in in such and such a latitude, you know,", "pos": 1054125}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay! Heave ahead, my lad!", "pos": 1056806}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "—latitude, latitude, and longitude so-and-so,—‘the look-out observed, half an hour before sunset, some fragments of a wreck, drifting at about the distance of a mile. The weather being clear, and the barque making no way, a boat was hoisted out, with orders to inspect the same, when they were found to consist of sundry large spars, and a part of the main rigging of an English brig, of about five hundred tons burden, together with a portion of the stem on which the words and letters “Son and H-” were yet plainly legible. No vestige of any dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more. There can be no doubt that all surmises as to the fate of the missing vessel, the Son and Heir, port of London, bound for Barbados, are now set at rest for ever; that she broke up in the last hurricane; and that every soul on board perished. Oh upon my word and honour, this is a most wretched sort of affair this world is! Somebody’s always dying, or going and doing something uncomfortable in it. I’m sure I never should have looked forward so much, to coming into my property, if I had known this. I never saw such a world. It’s a great deal worse than Blimber’s.", "pos": 1056895}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r, my dear lad, farewell! Wal”r my child, my boy, and man, I loved you! He warn’t my flesh and blood. I ain’t got none—but something of what a father feels when he loses a son, I feel in losing Wal”r. For why? For why? Because it ain’t one loss, but a round dozen. Where’s that there young school-boy with the rosy face and curly hair, that used to be as merry in this here parlour, come round every week, as a piece of music? Gone down with Wal”r. Where’s that there fresh lad, that nothing couldn’t tire nor put out, and that sparkled up and blushed so, when we joked him about Heart’s Delight, that he was beautiful to look at? Where’s that there man’s spirit, all afire, that wouldn’t see the old man hove down for a minute, and cared nothing for itself? It ain’t one Wal”r. There was a dozen Wal”rs that I know’d and loved, all holding round his neck when he went down, and they’re a-holding round mine now! And Sol Gills, poor nevyless old Sol, where are you got to! you was left in charge of me; his last words was, ‘Take care of my Uncle!’ What came over you, Sol, when you went and gave the go-bye to Ned Cuttle; and what am I to put in my accounts that he’s a looking down upon, respecting you! Sol Gills, Sol Gills! catch sight of that there newspaper, away from home, with no one as know’d Wal”r by, to say a word; and broadside to you broach, and down you pitch, head foremost! My lad, you must tell the young woman honestly that this here fatal news is too correct. They don’t romance, you see, on such pints. It’s entered on the ship’s log, and that’s the truest book as a man can write. To-morrow morning. I’ll step out and make inquiries; but they’ll lead to no good. They can’t do it. If you’ll give me a look-in in the forenoon, you shall know what I have heerd; but tell the young woman from Cap’en Cuttle, that it’s over. Over!", "pos": 1058986}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh! I assure you, really I am dreadfully sorry. Upon my word I am, though I wasn’t acquainted with the party. Do you think Miss Dombey will be very much affected, Captain Gills—I mean Mr Cuttle?", "pos": 1061514}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, Lord love you. When she warn’t no higher than that, they were as fond of one another as two young doves.", "pos": 1061728}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Were they though!", "pos": 1061919}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "They were made for one another, but what signifies that now!", "pos": 1061991}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Upon my word and honour. I’m even more sorry than I was before. You know, Captain Gills, I—I positively adore Miss Dombey;—I—I am perfectly sore with loving her; but what would be the good of my regarding her in this manner, if I wasn’t truly sorry for her feeling pain, whatever was the cause of it. Mine ain’t a selfish affection, you know. It’s the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over—or—or trampled upon—or—or thrown off a very high place-or anything of that sort—for Miss Dombey’s sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me. Thankee, Captain Gills, it’s kind of you, in the midst of your own troubles, to say so. I’m very much obliged to you. As I said before, I really want a friend, and should be glad to have your acquaintance. Although I am very well off, you can’t think what a miserable Beast I am. The hollow crowd, you know, when they see me with the Chicken, and characters of distinction like that, suppose me to be happy; but I’m wretched. I suffer for Miss Dombey, Captain Gills. I can’t get through my meals; I have no pleasure in my tailor; I often cry when I’m alone. I assure you it’ll be a satisfaction to me to come back to-morrow, or to come back fifty times.", "pos": 1062086}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Well, Captain Cuttle, this is a bad business.", "pos": 1065676}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You have received the news as was in print yesterday, Sir?", "pos": 1065817}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, we have received it! It was accurately stated. The underwriters suffer a considerable loss. We are very sorry. No help! Such is life! I excessively regret poor Gay, and the crew. I understand there were some of our very best men among ’em. It always happens so. Many men with families too. A comfort to reflect that poor Gay had no family, Captain Cuttle! Is there anything I can do for you, Captain Cuttle?", "pos": 1065896}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "I wish you could set my mind at rest, Sir, on something it’s uneasy about,", "pos": 1066703}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Ay! what’s that? Come, Captain Cuttle, I must trouble you to be quick, if you please. I am much engaged.", "pos": 1066802}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Lookee here, Sir. Afore my friend Wal”r went on this here disastrous voyage—", "pos": 1066934}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Come, come, Captain Cuttle, don’t talk about disastrous voyages in that way. We have nothing to do with disastrous voyages here, my good fellow. You must have begun very early on your day’s allowance, Captain, if you don’t remember that there are hazards in all voyages, whether by sea or land. You are not made uneasy by the supposition that young what’s-his-name was lost in bad weather that was got up against him in these offices—are you? Fie, Captain! Sleep, and soda-water, are the best cures for such uneasiness as that.", "pos": 1067051}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad, you are a’most a lad to me, and so I don’t ask your pardon for that slip of a word,—if you find any pleasure in this here sport, you ain’t the gentleman I took you for. And if you ain’t the gentleman I took you for, may be my mind has call to be uneasy. Now this is what it is, Mr Carker.—Afore that poor lad went away, according to orders, he told me that he warn’t a going away for his own good, or for promotion, he know’d. It was my belief that he was wrong, and I told him so, and I come here, your head governor being absent, to ask a question or two of you in a civil way, for my own satisfaction. Them questions you answered—free. Now it’ll ease my mind to know, when all is over, as it is, and when what can’t be cured must be endoored—for which, as a scholar, you’ll overhaul the book it’s in, and thereof make a note—to know once more, in a word, that I warn’t mistaken; that I warn’t back’ard in my duty when I didn’t tell the old man what Wal”r told me; and that the wind was truly in his sail, when he highsted of it for Barbados Harbour. Mr Carker, when I was here last, we was very pleasant together. If I ain’t been altogether so pleasant myself this morning, on account of this poor lad, and if I have chafed again any observation of yours that I might have fended off, my name is Ed’ard Cuttle, and I ask your pardon.", "pos": 1067615}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Captain Cuttle. I must ask you to do me a favour.", "pos": 1069044}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And what is it, Sir?", "pos": 1069150}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To have the goodness to walk off, if you please, and to carry your jargon somewhere else. I tell you what, Captain Cuttle. I was much too lenient with you when you came here before. You belong to an artful and audacious set of people. In my desire to save young what’s-his-name from being kicked out of this place, neck and crop, my good Captain, I tolerated you; but for once, and only once. Now, go, my friend! Go, like a sensible fellow, and let us have no turning out, or any such violent measures. If Mr Dombey were here, Captain, you might be obliged to leave in a more ignominious manner, possibly. I merely say, Go! You are deep, Captain Cuttle, but you are not quite out of soundings, either—neither you nor your absent friend, Captain. What have you done with your absent friend, hey?", "pos": 1069195}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "stand by!", "pos": 1071031}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You hatch nice little plots, and hold nice little councils, and make nice little appointments, and receive nice little visitors, too, Captain, hey? but it’s a bold measure to come here afterwards. Not like your discretion! You conspirators, and hiders, and runners-away, should know better than that. Will you oblige me by going?", "pos": 1071061}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad, there’s a many words I could wish to say to you, but I don’t rightly know where they’re stowed just at present. My young friend, Wal”r, was drownded only last night, according to my reckoning, and it puts me out, you see. But you and me will come alongside o’one another again, my lad, if we live.", "pos": 1071476}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It will be anything but shrewd in you, my good fellow, if we do, for you may rely, I give you fair warning, upon my detecting and exposing you. I don’t pretend to be a more moral man than my neighbours, my good Captain; but the confidence of this House, or of any member of this House, is not to be abused and undermined while I have eyes and ears. Good day!", "pos": 1071938}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "I’m took aback, my lad, at present, and will only confirm that there ill news. Tell the young woman to break it gentle to the young lady, and for neither of ’em never to think of me no more—“special, mind you, that is—though I will think of them, when night comes on a hurricane and seas is mountains rowling, for which overhaul your Doctor Watts, brother, and when found make a note on.", "pos": 1075761}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "A most extraordinary accidental likeness, certainly,", "pos": 1080220}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "It is early, John. Why do you go so early?", "pos": 1083735}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "Not many minutes earlier than usual, Harriet. If I have the time to spare, I should like, I think—it’s a fancy—to walk once by the house where I took leave of him.", "pos": 1083792}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I wish I had ever seen or known him, John.", "pos": 1083958}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "It is better as it is, my dear, remembering his fate.", "pos": 1084003}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "But I could not regret it more, though I had known him. Is not your sorrow mine? And if I had, perhaps you would feel that I was a better companion to you in speaking about him, than I may seem now.", "pos": 1084059}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "My dearest sister! Is there anything within the range of rejoicing or regret, in which I am not sure of your companionship?", "pos": 1084260}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I hope you think not, John, for surely there is nothing!", "pos": 1084386}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "How could you be better to me, or nearer to me then, than you are in this, or anything? I feel that you did know him, Harriet, and that you shared my feelings towards him.", "pos": 1084445}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "No, not quite.", "pos": 1084749}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "True, true! you think I might have done him no harm if I had allowed myself to know him better?", "pos": 1084766}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Think! I know it.", "pos": 1084875}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "Designedly, Heaven knows I would not, but his reputation was too precious to be perilled by such association. Whether you share that knowledge, or do not, my dear—", "pos": 1084895}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I do not,", "pos": 1085104}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "It is still the truth, Harriet, and my mind is lighter when I think of him for that which made it so much heavier then. Good-bye!", "pos": 1085134}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Good-bye, dear John! In the evening, at the old time and place, I shall meet you as usual on your way home. Good-bye.", "pos": 1085345}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You are come again, Sir!", "pos": 1088363}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "I take that liberty. May I ask for five minutes of your leisure? Miss Harriet, you cannot be proud. You signified to me, when I called t’other morning, that you were. Pardon me if I say that I looked into your face while you spoke, and that it contradicted you. I look into it again, and it contradicts you more and more. It is the mirror of truth, and gentleness. Excuse my trusting to it, and returning. The disparity between our ages,", "pos": 1088411}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "and the plainness of my purpose, empower me, I am glad to think, to speak my mind. That is my mind; and so you see me for the second time.", "pos": 1089555}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "There is a kind of pride, Sir, or what may be supposed to be pride, which is mere duty. I hope I cherish no other.", "pos": 1089696}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For yourself,", "pos": 1089855}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "For myself.", "pos": 1089880}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But—pardon me—", "pos": 1089894}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For your brother John?", "pos": 1089936}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Proud of his love, I am, and proud of him. Sir, you who strangely know the story of his life, and repeated it to me when you were here last—", "pos": 1089961}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Merely to make my way into your confidence,", "pos": 1090351}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For heaven’s sake, don’t suppose—", "pos": 1090423}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I am sure, you revived it, in my hearing, with a kind and good purpose. I am quite sure of it.", "pos": 1090459}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thank you,", "pos": 1090568}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am much obliged to you. You do me justice, I assure you. You were going to say, that I, who know the story of John Carker’s life—", "pos": 1090632}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "May think it pride in me, when I say that I am proud of him! I am. You know the time was, when I was not—when I could not be—but that is past. The humility of many years, the uncomplaining expiation, the true repentance, the terrible regret, the pain I know he has even in my affection, which he thinks has cost me dear, though Heaven knows I am happy, but for his sorrow I—oh, Sir, after what I have seen, let me conjure you, if you are in any place of power, and are ever wronged, never, for any wrong, inflict a punishment that cannot be recalled; while there is a GOD above us to work changes in the hearts He made.", "pos": 1090766}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your brother is an altered man,", "pos": 1091405}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I assure you I don’t doubt it.", "pos": 1091480}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "He was an altered man when he did wrong. He is an altered man again, and is his true self now, believe me, Sir.", "pos": 1091513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "we go on in our clockwork routine, from day to day, and can’t make out, or follow, these changes. They—they’re a metaphysical sort of thing. We—we haven’t leisure for it. We—we haven’t courage. They’re not taught at schools or colleges, and we don’t know how to set about it. In short, we are so d——d business-like,", "pos": 1091780}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am sure,", "pos": 1092227}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have good reason to believe that a jog-trot life, the same from day to day, would reconcile one to anything. One don’t see anything, one don’t hear anything, one don’t know anything; that’s the fact. We go on taking everything for granted, and so we go on, until whatever we do, good, bad, or indifferent, we do from habit. Habit is all I shall have to report, when I am called upon to plead to my conscience, on my death-bed. ‘Habit,’ says I; ‘I was deaf, dumb, blind, and paralytic, to a million things, from habit.’ ‘Very business-like indeed, Mr What’s-your-name,’ says Conscience, ‘but it won’t do here!’", "pos": 1092325}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Miss Harriet,", "pos": 1093074}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I wish you would let me serve you. Look at me; I ought to look honest, for I know I am so, at present. Do I?", "pos": 1093119}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1093230}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I believe every word you have said,", "pos": 1093264}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am full of self-reproach that I might have known this and seen this, and known you and seen you, any time these dozen years, and that I never have. I hardly know how I ever got here—creature that I am, not only of my own habit, but of other people’s! But having done so, let me do something. I ask it in all honour and respect. You inspire me with both, in the highest degree. Let me do something.", "pos": 1093315}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "We are contented, Sir.", "pos": 1093717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, no, not quite,", "pos": 1093742}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think not quite. There are some little comforts that might smooth your life, and his. And his!", "pos": 1093787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have been in the habit of thinking that there was nothing wanting to be done for him; that it was all settled and over; in short, of not thinking at all about it. I am different now. Let me do something for him. You too,", "pos": 1093946}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "have need to watch your health closely, for his sake, and I fear it fails.", "pos": 1094212}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Whoever you may be, Sir. I am deeply grateful to you. I feel certain that in all you say, you have no object in the world but kindness to us. But years have passed since we began this life; and to take from my brother any part of what has so endeared him to me, and so proved his better resolution—any fragment of the merit of his unassisted, obscure, and forgotten reparation—would be to diminish the comfort it will be to him and me, when that time comes to each of us, of which you spoke just now. I thank you better with these tears than any words. Believe it, pray.", "pos": 1094289}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If the day should ever come,", "pos": 1095066}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "when he is restored, in part, to the position he lost—", "pos": 1095111}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Restored!", "pos": 1095168}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can that be hoped for? In whose hands does the power of any restoration lie? It is no mistake of mine, surely, to suppose that his having gained the priceless blessing of his life, is one cause of the animosity shown to him by his brother.", "pos": 1095210}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You touch upon a subject that is never breathed between us; not even between us,", "pos": 1095456}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I beg your forgiveness,", "pos": 1095553}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I should have known it. I entreat you to forget that I have done so, inadvertently. And now, as I dare urge no more—as I am not sure that I have a right to do so—though Heaven knows, even that doubt may be habit,", "pos": 1095597}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "let me; though a stranger, yet no stranger; ask two favours.", "pos": 1095877}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "What are they?", "pos": 1095940}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The first, that if you should see cause to change your resolution, you will suffer me to be as your right hand. My name shall then be at your service; it is useless now, and always insignificant.", "pos": 1095971}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Our choice of friends, is not so great, that I need any time for consideration. I can promise that.", "pos": 1096169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The second, that you will allow me sometimes, say every Monday morning, at nine o’clock—habit again—I must be businesslike,", "pos": 1096304}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "in walking past, to see you at the door or window. I don’t ask to come in, as your brother will be gone out at that hour. I don’t ask to speak to you. I merely ask to see, for the satisfaction of my own mind, that you are well, and without intrusion to remind you, by the sight of me, that you have a friend—an elderly friend, grey-haired already, and fast growing greyer—whom you may ever command.", "pos": 1096517}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "The cordial face looked up in his; confided in it; and promised.", "pos": 1096917}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I understand, as before,", "pos": 1096983}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "that you purpose not to mention my visit to John Carker, lest he should be at all distressed by my acquaintance with his history. I am glad of it, for it is out of the ordinary course of things, and—habit again!", "pos": 1097038}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "as if there were no better course than the ordinary course!", "pos": 1097302}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Why do you rest in the rain?", "pos": 1101927}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "Because I have no other resting-place,", "pos": 1101980}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "But there are many places of shelter near here. This, is better than where you were. You are very welcome to rest here.", "pos": 1102036}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "Why, what’s a torn foot to such as me? And what’s a torn foot in such as me, to such as you?", "pos": 1102553}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Come in and wash it, and let me give you something to bind it up.", "pos": 1102660}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "I daresay you are thinking, that I used to be handsome, once. I believe I was—I know I was—Look here!", "pos": 1103680}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Are you a stranger in this place?", "pos": 1103997}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "A stranger!", "pos": 1104048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes. Ten or a dozen years a stranger. I have had no almanack where I have been. Ten or a dozen years. I don’t know this part. It’s much altered since I went away.", "pos": 1104136}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Have you been far?", "pos": 1104301}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Very far. Months upon months over the sea, and far away even then. I have been where convicts go,", "pos": 1104322}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have been one myself.", "pos": 1104468}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Heaven help you and forgive you!", "pos": 1104494}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah! Heaven help me and forgive me!", "pos": 1104552}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If man would help some of us a little more, God would forgive us all the sooner perhaps.", "pos": 1104633}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We may be about the same age, you and me. If I am older, it is not above a year or two. Oh think of that!", "pos": 1104868}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "There is nothing we may not hope to repair; it is never too late to amend. You are penitent?", "pos": 1105135}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No,", "pos": 1105246}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not! I can’t be. I am no such thing. Why should I be penitent, and all the world go free? They talk to me of my penitence. Who’s penitent for the wrongs that have been done to me?", "pos": 1105266}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Where are you going?", "pos": 1105530}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yonder,", "pos": 1105567}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To London.", "pos": 1105615}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Have you any home to go to?", "pos": 1105628}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I think I have a mother. She’s as much a mother, as her dwelling is a home,", "pos": 1105658}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Take this. Try to do well. It is very little, but for one day it may keep you from harm.", "pos": 1105770}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are you married?", "pos": 1105905}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "No. I live here with my brother. We have not much to spare, or I would give you more.", "pos": 1105965}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Will you let me kiss you?", "pos": 1106053}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Who’s that?", "pos": 1109005}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "One who brings you news,", "pos": 1109056}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "News? Where from?", "pos": 1109118}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From abroad.", "pos": 1109138}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "From beyond seas?", "pos": 1109153}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ay, from beyond seas.", "pos": 1109207}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s not my gal!", "pos": 1109836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Where’s my Alice? Where’s my handsome daughter? They’ve been the death of her!", "pos": 1109936}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Have you seen my gal, then?", "pos": 1110100}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Has she wrote to me?", "pos": 1110151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She said you couldn’t read,", "pos": 1110174}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No more I can!", "pos": 1110224}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What did she say?", "pos": 1111043}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look,", "pos": 1111063}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Alice said look again, mother;", "pos": 1111245}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It’s my gal! It’s my Alice! It’s my handsome daughter, living and come back!", "pos": 1111565}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Yes, mother. I am here, at last. Let go, mother; let go. Get up, and sit in your chair. What good does this do?", "pos": 1112033}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She’s come back harder than she went!", "pos": 1112286}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She don’t care for me! after all these years, and all the wretched life I’ve led!", "pos": 1112400}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Why, mother! there are two sides to that. There have been years for me as well as you, and there has been wretchedness for me as well as you. Get up, get up!", "pos": 1112484}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Did you expect to see me return as youthful as I went away, mother? Did you think a foreign life, like mine, was good for good looks? One would believe so, to hear you!", "pos": 1113371}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It ain’t that!", "pos": 1113601}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "What is it then? It had best be something that don’t last, mother, or my way out is easier than my way in.", "pos": 1113652}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hear that!", "pos": 1113786}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After all these years she threatens to desert me in the moment of her coming back again!", "pos": 1113821}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I tell you, mother, for the second time, there have been years for me as well as you. Come back harder? Of course I have come back harder. What else did you expect?", "pos": 1113912}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Harder to me! To her own dear mother!", "pos": 1114093}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I don’t know who began to harden me, if my own dear mother didn’t. Listen, mother, to a word or two. If we understand each other now, we shall not fall out any more, perhaps. I went away a girl, and have come back a woman. I went away undutiful enough, and have come back no better, you may swear. But have you been very dutiful to me?", "pos": 1114153}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I!", "pos": 1114658}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To my gal! A mother dutiful to her own child!", "pos": 1114684}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "It sounds unnatural, don’t it? but I have thought of it sometimes, in the course of my lone years, till I have got used to it. I have heard some talk about duty first and last; but it has always been of my duty to other people. I have wondered now and then—to pass away the time—whether no one ever owed any duty to me. There was a child called Alice Marwood, born, among poverty and neglect, and nursed in it. Nobody taught her, nobody stepped forward to help her, nobody cared for her.", "pos": 1114732}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nobody!", "pos": 1115579}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "The only care she knew, was to be beaten, and stinted, and abused sometimes; and she might have done better without that. She lived in homes like this, and in the streets, with a crowd of little wretches like herself; and yet she brought good looks out of this childhood. So much the worse for her. She had better have been hunted and worried to death for ugliness.", "pos": 1115654}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Go on! go on!", "pos": 1116047}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I am going on. There was a girl called Alice Marwood. She was handsome. She was taught too late, and taught all wrong. She was too well cared for, too well trained, too well helped on, too much looked after. You were very fond of her—you were better off then. What came to that girl comes to thousands every year. It was only ruin, and she was born to it.", "pos": 1116085}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "After all these years!", "pos": 1116468}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "My gal begins with this.", "pos": 1116515}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "She’ll soon have ended,", "pos": 1116542}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "So Alice Marwood was transported, mother, and was sent to learn her duty, where there was twenty times less duty, and more wickedness, and wrong, and infamy, than here. And Alice Marwood is come back a woman. Such a woman as she ought to be, after all this. In good time, there will be more solemnity, and more fine talk, and more strong arm, most likely, and there will be an end of her; but the gentlemen needn’t be afraid of being thrown out of work. There’s crowds of little wretches, boy and girl, growing up in any of the streets they live in, that’ll keep them to it till they’ve made their fortunes. There! I have done, mother,", "pos": 1117287}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "You are very poor, mother, I see,", "pos": 1119744}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Bitter poor, my deary,", "pos": 1119844}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "How have you lived?", "pos": 1120374}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "By begging, my deary.", "pos": 1120396}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "And pilfering, mother?", "pos": 1120419}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Sometimes, Ally—in a very small way. I am old and timid. I have taken trifles from children now and then, my deary, but not often. I have tramped about the country, pet, and I know what I know. I have watched.", "pos": 1120444}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Watched?", "pos": 1120656}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "I have hung about a family, my deary,", "pos": 1120706}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "What family?", "pos": 1120810}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Years ago, my deary,” she pursued, glancing timidly at the attentive and stern face opposed to her, “I came across his little child, by chance.", "pos": 1121018}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Whose child?", "pos": 1121164}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not his, Alice deary; don’t look at me like that; not his. How could it be his? You know he has none.", "pos": 1121179}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Whose then?", "pos": 1121283}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Hush, Ally; you frighten me, deary. Mr Dombey’s—only Mr Dombey’s. Since then, darling, I have seen them often. I have seen him.", "pos": 1121336}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "face to face. I spoke to him, and he spoke to me. I sat and watched him as he went away down a long grove of trees: and at every step he took, I cursed him soul and body.", "pos": 1122117}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "He will thrive in spite of that,", "pos": 1122290}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Ay, he is thriving,", "pos": 1122361}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Is he married?", "pos": 1122780}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "No, deary,", "pos": 1122797}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Going to be?", "pos": 1122827}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not that I know of, deary. But his master and friend is married. Oh, we may give him joy! We may give ’em all joy! But you are wet and tired; hungry and thirsty, and there’s little here, and little—little here. Have you any money, Alice, deary? Is that all?", "pos": 1122842}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I have no more. I should not have this, but for charity.", "pos": 1123692}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "But for charity, eh, deary?", "pos": 1123751}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "What joy is to come to us of this marriage, mother?", "pos": 1124400}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "The joy of confusion and strife among ’em, proud as they are, and of danger—danger, Alice!", "pos": 1124622}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "What danger?", "pos": 1124715}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "I have seen what I have seen. I know what I know!", "pos": 1124730}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Know!", "pos": 1126009}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "I know of his brother, Alice, who might have been where you have been—for stealing money—and who lives with his sister, over yonder, by the north road out of London.", "pos": 1126207}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1126465}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "By the north road out of London, deary. You shall see the house if you like. It ain’t much to boast of, genteel as his own is. No, no, no,", "pos": 1126474}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Stop! The sister is a fair-faced Devil, with brown hair? I see the shadow of him in her face! It’s a red house standing by itself. Before the door there is a small green porch. Give me back the money. Alice! Deary! Give me back the money, or you’ll be hurt.", "pos": 1126859}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "This is a fit place for me!", "pos": 1128560}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Alice, my deary,", "pos": 1128679}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "What now, mother?", "pos": 1128758}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Don’t give the money back, my darling; please don’t. We can’t afford it. We want supper, deary. Money is money, whoever gives it. Say what you will, but keep the money.", "pos": 1128778}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "See there! That is the house I mean. Is that it? I want your sister. The woman who gave me money today. Oh! You are here! Do you remember me?", "pos": 1128949}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1129550}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "That I could speak with you, and not know you! That I could come near you, and not feel what blood was running in your veins, by the tingling of my own! Done! You have sat me by your fire; you have given me food and money; you have bestowed your compassion on me! You! whose name I spit upon! If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! I tread it in the dust: I wouldn’t take it if it paved my way to Heaven! I would the bleeding foot that brought me here today, had rotted off, before it led me to your house! It was well that I should be pitied and forgiven by you, or anyone of your name, in the first hour of my return! It was well that you should act the kind good lady to me! I’ll thank you when I die; I’ll pray for you, and all your race, you may be sure!", "pos": 1129867}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Only second to the wedding morning, in the interest and expectation it engenders among the household, is this evening of the coming home.", "pos": 1133882}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Here they are!", "pos": 1135534}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Ah, it’s a strange world, it is indeed! but Miss Florence can’t well be the worse for any change, Tom.", "pos": 1136726}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "Oh, can’t she though!", "pos": 1136952}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My sweetest Edith! My dearest Dombey!", "pos": 1138399}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "How do you do, Florence?", "pos": 1138890}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You will not be long dressing, Mrs Dombey, I presume?", "pos": 1139570}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey", "text": "I shall be ready immediately.", "pos": 1139642}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Let them send up dinner in a quarter of an hour.", "pos": 1139674}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And how, my dearest Dombey, did you find that delightfullest of cities, Paris?", "pos": 1140155}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It was cold,", "pos": 1140269}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Gay as ever,", "pos": 1140304}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Not particularly. I thought it dull,", "pos": 1140349}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Fie, my dearest Dombey! dull!", "pos": 1140404}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It made that impression upon me, Madam. I believe Mrs Dombey found it dull too. She mentioned once or twice that she thought it so.", "pos": 1140446}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Why, you naughty girl! what dreadfully heretical things have you been saying about Paris? My dear Dombey, how charmingly these people have carried out every idea that we hinted. They have made a perfect palace of the house, positively.", "pos": 1140621}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It is handsome. I directed that no expense should be spared; and all that money could do, has been done, I believe.", "pos": 1141181}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And what can it not do, dear Dombey?", "pos": 1141332}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It is powerful, Madam. I hope, Mrs Dombey, that these alterations meet with your approval?", "pos": 1141391}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey", "text": "They are as handsome as they can be. They should be so, of course. And I suppose they are.", "pos": 1141644}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I beg your pardon. Shall I go away, Papa?", "pos": 1144882}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "No, you can come and go here, Florence, as you please. This is not my private room.", "pos": 1144973}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Florence, dear. I have been looking for you everywhere.", "pos": 1150122}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Softly, dear Mama. Papa is asleep.", "pos": 1150547}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I scarcely thought you could be here, Florence. I left here early, purposely to sit upstairs and talk with you. But, going to your room, I found my bird was flown, and I have been waiting there ever since, expecting its return. Come, dear!", "pos": 1150690}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Papa will not expect to find me, I suppose, when he wakes,", "pos": 1151126}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Do you think he will, Florence?", "pos": 1151207}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, Mama! I have had a great sorrow since that day.", "pos": 1152941}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You a great sorrow, Florence!", "pos": 1152995}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes. Poor Walter is drowned.", "pos": 1153027}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "But tell me, dear. Who was Walter? What was he to you?", "pos": 1153245}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "He was my brother, Mama. After dear Paul died, we said we would be brother and sister. I had known him a long time—from a little child. He knew Paul, who liked him very much; Paul said, almost at the last,", "pos": 1153330}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Take care of Walter, dear Papa! I was fond of him!", "pos": 1153537}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter had been brought in to see him, and was there then—in this room.", "pos": 1153589}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "And did he take care of Walter?", "pos": 1153663}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Papa? He appointed him to go abroad. He was drowned in shipwreck on his voyage,", "pos": 1153722}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Does he know that he is dead?", "pos": 1153828}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I cannot tell, Mama. I have no means of knowing. Dear Mama! I know that you have seen—", "pos": 1153873}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Stay! Stop, Florence. Tell me all about Walter first; let me understand this history all through. What is it that you know I have seen, Florence?", "pos": 1154045}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "That I am not, that I am not a favourite child, Mama. I never have been. I have never known how to be. I have missed the way, and had no one to show it to me. Oh, let me learn from you how to become dearer to Papa Teach me! you, who can so well!", "pos": 1154673}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Florence, you do not know me! Heaven forbid that you should learn from me!", "pos": 1155603}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Not learn from you?", "pos": 1155680}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "That I should teach you how to love, or be loved, Heaven forbid! If you could teach me, that were better; but it is too late. You are dear to me, Florence. I did not think that anything could ever be so dear to me, as you are in this little time. I will be your true friend always. I will cherish you, as much, if not as well as anyone in this world could. You may trust in me—I know it and I say it, dear,—with the whole confidence even of your pure heart. There are hosts of women whom he might have married, better and truer in all other respects than I am, Florence; but there is not one who could come here, his wife, whose heart could beat with greater truth to you than mine does.", "pos": 1155734}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I know it, dear Mama! From that first most happy day I have known it.", "pos": 1156529}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Most happy day! Though the merit is not mine, for I thought little of you until I saw you, let the undeserved reward be mine in your trust and love. And in this—in this, Florence; on the first night of my taking up my abode here; I am led on as it is best I should be, to say it for the first and last time. Never seek to find in me, what is not here. Never if you can help it, Florence, fall off from me because it is not here. Little by little you will know me better, and the time will come when you will know me, as I know myself. Then, be as lenient to me as you can, and do not turn to bitterness the only sweet remembrance I shall have. I have seen what you say, and know how true it is. But believe me—you will soon, if you cannot now—there is no one on this earth less qualified to set it right or help you, Florence, than I. Never ask me why, or speak to me about it or of my husband, more. There should be, so far, a division, and a silence between us two, like the grave itself.", "pos": 1156619}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It is running on, Floy! It has never stopped! You are moving with it!", "pos": 1159920}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Florence, dear Florence, it is nothing but a dream!", "pos": 1160479}
{"speaker": "Bank Director", "text": "little place Ladies, it was not for a man who lived in his quiet way to take upon himself to invite—but if Mrs Skewton and her daughter, Mrs Dombey, should ever find themselves in that direction, and would do him the honour to look at a little bit of a shrubbery they would find there, and a poor little flower-bed or so, and a humble apology for a pinery, and two or three little attempts of that sort without any pretension, they would distinguish him very much. he couldn’t afford it.", "pos": 1165598}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Why, upon my life, there’s nothing in it; it really is not worth repeating: in point of fact, it’s merely an anecdote of Jack Adams. I dare say my friend Dombey; may remember Jack Adams, Jack Adams, not Joe; that was his brother. Jack—little Jack—man with a cast in his eye, and slight impediment in his speech—man who sat for somebody’s borough. We used to call him in my parliamentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a young fellow who was in his minority. Perhaps my friend Dombey may have known the man?", "pos": 1170868}
{"speaker": "the mild man", "text": "always wore Hessian boots!", "pos": 1171680}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Exactly. That was Jack. Joe wore—", "pos": 1171709}
{"speaker": "the mild man", "text": "Tops!", "pos": 1171851}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Of course, you were intimate with em?", "pos": 1171922}
{"speaker": "the mild man", "text": "I knew them both,", "pos": 1171984}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Devilish good fellow, Jack!", "pos": 1172066}
{"speaker": "the mild man", "text": "Excellent. One of the best fellows I ever knew.", "pos": 1172152}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "No doubt you have heard the story?", "pos": 1172257}
{"speaker": "the mild man", "text": "I shall know, when I have heard your Ludship tell it.", "pos": 1172314}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "In point of fact, it’s nothing of a story in itself, and not worth a word of preface. But it’s illustrative of the neatness of Jack’s humour. The fact is, that Jack was invited down to a marriage—which I think took place in Berkshire?", "pos": 1172516}
{"speaker": "the mild man", "text": "Shropshire,", "pos": 1172839}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Was it? Well! In point of fact it might have been in any shire. So my friend being invited down to this marriage in Anyshire, goes. Just as some of us, having had the honour of being invited to the marriage of my lovely and accomplished relative with my friend Dombey, didn’t require to be asked twice, and were devilish glad to be present on so interesting an occasion.—Goes—Jack goes. Now, this marriage was, in point of fact, the marriage of an uncommonly fine girl with a man for whom she didn’t care a button, but whom she accepted on account of his property, which was immense. When Jack returned to town, after the nuptials, a man he knew, meeting him in the lobby of the House of Commons, says, ‘Well, Jack, how are the ill-matched couple?’ ‘Ill-matched,’ says Jack ‘Not at all. It’s a perfectly and equal transaction. She is regularly bought, and you may take your oath he is as regularly sold!’", "pos": 1172906}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Very good.", "pos": 1174641}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "But I am made, of no more account than Florence! Who takes the smallest notice of me? No one!", "pos": 1179035}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "No one, my dear,", "pos": 1179161}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Does it at all appear as if I was wanted here?", "pos": 1179317}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "No, my dear, I don’t think it does,", "pos": 1179407}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Paul’s mad! Unless you are a monster, which I sometimes think you are, don’t sit there humming tunes. How anyone with the most distant feelings of a man, can see that mother-in-law of Paul’s, dressed as she is, going on like that, with Major Bagstock, for whom, among other precious things, we are indebted to your Lucretia Tox.", "pos": 1179460}
{"speaker": "Mr Chick", "text": "My Lucretia Tox, my dear!", "pos": 1179859}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Yes, your Lucretia Tox—I say how anybody can see that mother-in-law of Paul’s, and that haughty wife of Paul’s, and these indecent old frights with their backs and shoulders, and in short this at home generally, and hum— is, I thank Heaven, a mystery to me! But I hope I know what is due to myself, though Paul has forgotten what is due to me. I am not going to sit here, a member of this family, to be taken no notice of. I am not the dirt under Mrs Dombey’s feet, yet—not quite yet. And I shall go. I will not say (whatever I may think) that this affair has been got up solely to degrade and insult me. I shall merely go. I shall not be missed!", "pos": 1179913}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I trust, that the fatigues of this delightful evening will not inconvenience Mrs Dombey to-morrow.", "pos": 1183416}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey, has sufficiently spared herself fatigue, to relieve you from any anxiety of that kind. I regret to say, Mrs Dombey, that I could have wished you had fatigued yourself a little more on this occasion. I am sorry, Madam, that you should not have thought it your duty— Your duty, Madam, to have received my friends with a little more deference. Some of those whom you have been pleased to slight tonight in a very marked manner, Mrs Dombey, confer a distinction upon you, I must tell you, in any visit they pay you.", "pos": 1183528}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey", "text": "Do you know that there is someone here?", "pos": 1184287}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "No! Carker! I beg that you do not. I insist that you do not. Mr Carker, Madam, as you know, possesses my confidence. He is as well acquainted as myself with the subject on which I speak. I beg to tell you, for your information, Mrs Dombey, that I consider these wealthy and important persons confer a distinction upon me:", "pos": 1184372}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey", "text": "I ask you, do you know that there is someone here, Sir?", "pos": 1184863}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I must entreat. I must beg, I must demand, to be released. Slight and unimportant as this difference is—", "pos": 1184983}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My sweetest Edith, and my dearest Dombey; our excellent friend Mr Carker, for so I am sure I ought to mention him—", "pos": 1185203}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Too much honour.", "pos": 1185352}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "—has used the very words that were in my mind, and that I have been dying, these ages, for an opportunity of introducing. Slight and unimportant! My sweetest Edith, and my dearest Dombey, do we not know that any difference between you two—No, Flowers; not now. That any difference between you two,", "pos": 1185371}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "I think I am a little nervous this morning, Flowers. My hand quite shakes.", "pos": 1189826}
{"speaker": "Flowers", "text": "You were the life of the party last night, Ma'am, you know, and you suffer for it today, you see.", "pos": 1189923}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My darling child, you are not nervous? Don’t tell me, my dear Edith, that you, so enviably self-possessed, are beginning to be a martyr too, like your unfortunately constituted mother! Withers, someone at the door.", "pos": 1190222}
{"speaker": "Withers", "text": "Card, Ma'am,", "pos": 1190469}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I am going out,", "pos": 1190528}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dear love, how very odd to send that message without seeing the name! Bring it here, Withers. Dear me, my love; Mr Carker, too! That very sensible person!", "pos": 1190578}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I am going out,", "pos": 1190761}
{"speaker": "Withers", "text": "Mrs Dombey is going out. Get along with you,", "pos": 1190901}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If you please, Ma'am, Mr Carker sends his respectful compliments, and begs you would spare him one minute, if you could—for business, Ma'am, if you please.", "pos": 1191125}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Really, my love, if you would allow me to offer a word, I should recommend—", "pos": 1191283}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Show him this way. As he comes at your recommendation, let him come to your room.", "pos": 1191444}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "May I—shall I go away?", "pos": 1191624}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have presumed, to solicit an interview, and I have ventured to describe it as being one of business, because—", "pos": 1193499}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Perhaps you are charged by Mr Dombey with some message of reproof. You possess Mr Dombey’s confidence in such an unusual degree, Sir, that you would scarcely surprise me if that were your business.", "pos": 1193631}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have no message to the lady who sheds a lustre upon his name. But I entreat that lady, on my own behalf, to be just to a very humble claimant for justice at her hands—a mere dependant of Mr Dombey’s—which is a position of humility; and to reflect upon my perfect helplessness last night, and the impossibility of my avoiding the share that was forced upon me in a very painful occasion.", "pos": 1193844}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith, really very charming of Mr What’s-his-name. And full of heart!", "pos": 1194253}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "For I do. I do venture to call it a painful occasion, though merely because it was so to me, who had the misfortune to be present. So slight a difference, as between the principals—between those who love each other with disinterested devotion, and would make any sacrifice of self in such a cause—is nothing. As Mrs Skewton herself expressed, with so much truth and feeling last night, it is nothing.", "pos": 1194404}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "And your business, Sir—", "pos": 1194948}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith, my pet, all this time Mr Carker is standing! My dear Mr Carker, take a seat, I beg.", "pos": 1194974}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "May I be allowed, Madam, a lady of your excellent sense and quick feeling will give me credit, for good reason, I am sure—to address what I have to say, to Mrs Dombey, and to leave her to impart it to you who are her best and dearest friend—next to Mr Dombey? Miss Florence—the young lady who has just left the room— Miss Florence’s position, has been an unfortunate one. I have a difficulty in alluding to it to you, whose attachment to her father is naturally watchful and jealous of every word that applies to him. But, as one who is devoted to Mr Dombey in his different way, and whose life is passed in admiration of Mr Dombey’s character, may I say, without offence to your tenderness as a wife, that Miss Florence has unhappily been neglected—by her father. May I say by her father?", "pos": 1195567}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I know it.", "pos": 1197069}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You know it! It removes a mountain from my breast. May I hope you know how the neglect originated; in what an amiable phase of Mr Dombey’s pride—character I mean?", "pos": 1197082}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You may pass that by, Sir, and come the sooner to the end of what you have to say.", "pos": 1197300}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Indeed, I am sensible, Madam, trust me, I am deeply sensible, that Mr Dombey can require no justification in anything to you. But, kindly judge of my breast by your own, and you will forgive my interest in him, if in its excess, it goes at all astray. Miss Florence, left to the care—if one may call it care—of servants and mercenary people, in every way her inferiors, necessarily wanted some guide and compass in her younger days, and, naturally, for want of them, has been indiscreet, and has in some degree forgotten her station. There was some folly about one Walter, a common lad, who is fortunately dead now: and some very undesirable association, I regret to say, with certain coasting sailors, of anything but good repute, and a runaway old bankrupt.", "pos": 1197401}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have heard the circumstances, Sir, and I know that you pervert them. You may not know it. I hope so.", "pos": 1198624}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Pardon me. I believe that nobody knows them so well as I. Your generous and ardent nature, Madam—the same nature which is so nobly imperative in vindication of your beloved and honoured husband, and which has blessed him as even his merits deserve—I must respect, defer to, bow before. But, as regards the circumstances, which is indeed the business I presumed to solicit your attention to, I can have no doubt, since, in the execution of my trust as Mr Dombey’s confidential—I presume to say—friend, I have fully ascertained them. In my execution of that trust; in my deep concern, which you can so well understand, for everything relating to him, intensified, if you will (for I fear I labour under your displeasure), by the lower motive of desire to prove my diligence, and make myself the more acceptable; I have long pursued these circumstances by myself and trustworthy instruments, and have innumerable and most minute proofs. Pardon me, Madam, if in my perplexity, I presume to take counsel with you, and to consult your pleasure. I think I have observed that you are greatly interested in Miss Florence? This interest, Madam—so touching an evidence of everything associated with Mr Dombey being dear to you—induces me to pause before I make him acquainted with these circumstances, which, as yet, he does not know. It so shakes me, if I may make the confession, in my allegiance, that on the intimation of the least desire to that effect from you, I would suppress them. You say that as I describe them, they are perverted. I fear not—I fear not: but let us assume that they are. The uneasiness I have for some time felt on the subject, arises in this: that the mere circumstance of such association often repeated, on the part of Miss Florence, however innocently and confidingly, would be conclusive with Mr Dombey, already predisposed against her, and would lead him to take some step (I know he has occasionally contemplated it) of separation and alienation of her from his home. Madam, bear with me, and remember my intercourse with Mr Dombey, and my knowledge of him, and my reverence for him, almost from childhood, when I say that if he has a fault, it is a lofty stubbornness, rooted in that noble pride and sense of power which belong to him, and which we must all defer to; which is not assailable like the obstinacy of other characters; and which grows upon itself from day to day, and year to year. Even so slight an incident as last night’s, if I might refer to it once more, would serve to illustrate my meaning, better than a greater one. Dombey and Son know neither time, nor place, nor season, but bear them all down. But I rejoice in its occurrence, for it has opened the way for me to approach Mrs Dombey with this subject today, even if it has entailed upon me the penalty of her temporary displeasure. Madam, in the midst of my uneasiness and apprehension on this subject, I was summoned by Mr Dombey to Leamington. There I saw you. There I could not help knowing what relation you would shortly occupy towards him—to his enduring happiness and yours. There I resolved to await the time of your establishment at home here, and to do as I have now done. I have, at heart, no fear that I shall be wanting in my duty to Mr Dombey, if I bury what I know in your breast; for where there is but one heart and mind between two persons—as in such a marriage—one almost represents the other. I can acquit my conscience therefore, almost equally, by confidence, on such a theme, in you or him. For the reasons I have mentioned I would select you. May I aspire to the distinction of believing that my confidence is accepted, and that I am relieved from my responsibility?", "pos": 1198784}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I accept it, Sir You will please to consider this matter at an end, and that it goes no farther.", "pos": 1203507}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Oh Florence, Florence!", "pos": 1204158}
{"speaker": "Flowers", "text": "If you please, Ma'am, I beg your pardon, but I can’t do nothing with Missis!", "pos": 1205417}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1205496}
{"speaker": "Flowers", "text": "Well, Ma'am. I hardly know. She’s making faces!", "pos": 1205529}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Rose-coloured curtains. Rose-coloured curtains for doctors.", "pos": 1207120}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Where is Mrs Dombey?", "pos": 1209190}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "Gone out, Ma’am.", "pos": 1209240}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Gone out! Does she go out to shun her Mama, Flowers?", "pos": 1209259}
{"speaker": "maid", "text": "La bless you, no, Ma’am. Mrs Dombey has only gone out for a ride with Miss Florence.", "pos": 1209314}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Miss Florence. Who’s Miss Florence? Don’t tell me about Miss Florence. What’s Miss Florence to her, compared to me? Well, I am sure, Edith!", "pos": 1209401}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What is the matter, mother?", "pos": 1209970}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Matter! I really don’t know what is the matter. The world is coming to such an artificial and ungrateful state, that I begin to think there’s no Heart—or anything of that sort—left in it, positively. Withers is more a child to me than you are. He attends to me much more than my own daughter. I almost wish I didn’t look so young—and all that kind of thing—and then perhaps I should be more considered.", "pos": 1210000}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What would you have, mother?", "pos": 1210405}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Oh, a great deal, Edith,", "pos": 1210436}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Is there anything you want that you have not? It is your own fault if there be.", "pos": 1210476}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My own fault! The parent I have been to you, Edith: making you a companion from your cradle! And when you neglect me, and have no more natural affection for me than if I was a stranger—not a twentieth part of the affection that you have for Florence—but I am only your mother, and should corrupt her in a day!—you reproach me with its being my own fault.", "pos": 1210558}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Mother, mother, I reproach you with nothing. Why will you always dwell on this?", "pos": 1210939}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Isn’t it natural that I should dwell on this, when I am all affection and sensitiveness, and am wounded in the cruellest way, whenever you look at me?", "pos": 1211021}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I do not mean to wound you, mother. Have you no remembrance of what has been said between us? Let the Past rest.", "pos": 1211174}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Yes, rest! And let gratitude to me rest; and let affection for me rest; and let me rest in my out-of-the-way room, with no society and no attention, while you find new relations to make much of, who have no earthly claim upon you! Good gracious, Edith, do you know what an elegant establishment you are at the head of?", "pos": 1211289}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes. Hush!", "pos": 1211610}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And that gentlemanly creature, Dombey? Do you know that you are married to him, Edith, and that you have a settlement and a position, and a carriage, and I don’t know what?", "pos": 1211623}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Indeed, I know it, mother; well.", "pos": 1211798}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "As you would have had with that delightful good soul—what did they call him?—Granger—if he hadn’t died. And who have you to thank for all this, Edith?", "pos": 1211833}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You, mother; you.", "pos": 1211986}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Then put your arms round my neck, and kiss me; and show me, Edith, that you know there never was a better Mama than I have been to you. And don’t let me become a perfect fright with teasing and wearing myself at your ingratitude, or when I’m out again in society no soul will know me, not even that hateful animal, the Major.", "pos": 1212006}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Polly, my gal, you ain’t seen our Biler lately, have you?", "pos": 1218219}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "No, but he’s almost certain to look in tonight. It’s his right evening, and he’s very regular.", "pos": 1218471}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I suppose, as our Biler is a doin’ now about as well as a boy can do, eh, Polly?", "pos": 1218585}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Oh! he’s a doing beautiful!", "pos": 1218717}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "He ain’t got to be at all secret-like—has he, Polly?", "pos": 1218764}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "No!", "pos": 1218839}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I’m glad he ain’t got to be at all secret-like, Polly, because that don’t look well; do it, Polly?", "pos": 1218871}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Why, of course it don’t, father. How can you ask!", "pos": 1219113}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "You see, my boys and gals, wotever you’re up to in a honest way, it’s my opinion as you can’t do better than be open. If you find yourselves in cuttings or in tunnels, don’t you play no secret games. Keep your whistles going, and let’s know where you are.", "pos": 1219165}
{"speaker": "wife", "text": "But what makes you say this along of Rob, father?", "pos": 1219580}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Polly, old “ooman,” I don’t know as I said it partickler along o’ Rob, I’m sure. I starts light with Rob only; I comes to a branch; I takes on what I finds there; and a whole train of ideas gets coupled on to him, afore I knows where I am, or where they comes from. What a Junction a man’s thoughts is, to-be-sure!", "pos": 1219659}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, mother! how are you, mother?", "pos": 1221777}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "There’s my boy! Secret! Bless you, father, not he!", "pos": 1221849}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "What! father’s been a saying something more again me, has he? Oh, what a hard thing it is that when a cove has once gone a little wrong, a cove’s own father should be always a throwing it in his face behind his back! It’s enough, to make a cove go and do something, out of spite!", "pos": 1222103}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "My poor boy! father didn’t mean anything.", "pos": 1222477}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "If father didn’t mean anything, why did he go and say anything, mother? Nobody thinks half so bad of me as my own father does. What a unnatural thing! I wish somebody’d take and chop my head off. Father wouldn’t mind doing it, I believe, and I’d much rather he did that than t’other.", "pos": 1222536}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Will you do as I do, Biler, my boy?", "pos": 1223561}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "No, thank’ee, father. Master and I had tea together.", "pos": 1223660}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And how is master, Rob?", "pos": 1223715}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, I don’t know, mother; not much to boast on. There ain’t no bis’ness done, you see. He don’t know anything about it—the Cap’en don’t. There was a man come into the shop this very day, and says, ‘I want a so-and-so,’ he says—some hard name or another. ‘A which?’ says the Cap’en. ‘A so-and-so,’ says the man. ‘Brother,’ says the Cap’en, ‘will you take a observation round the shop.’ ‘Well,’ says the man, ‘I’ve done.’ ‘Do you see wot you want?’ says the Cap’en ‘No, I don’t,’ says the man. ‘Do you know it wen you do see it?’ says the Cap’en. ‘No, I don’t,’ says the man. ‘Why, then I tell you wot, my lad,’ says the Cap’en, ‘you’d better go back and ask wot it’s like, outside, for no more don’t I!’", "pos": 1223753}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "That ain’t the way to make money, though, is it?", "pos": 1224459}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Money, mother! He’ll never make money. He has such ways as I never see. He ain’t a bad master though, I’ll say that for him. But that ain’t much to me, for I don’t think I shall stop with him long.", "pos": 1224522}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Not stop in your place, Rob!", "pos": 1224722}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Not in that place, p’raps. I shouldn’t wonder—friends at court you know—but never you mind, mother, just now; I’m all right, that’s all.", "pos": 1224804}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "How do you do, Mrs Richards? I have come to see you. May I come in?", "pos": 1225395}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You have almost forgotten me, Sir, I daresay,", "pos": 1226516}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "No, Ma’am, no. But we’ve all on us got a little older since then.", "pos": 1226592}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And how do you find yourself, Sir?", "pos": 1226675}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Hearty, Ma’am, thank’ee. How do you find yourself, Ma’am? Do the rheumaticks keep off pretty well, Ma’am? We must all expect to grow into ’em, as we gets on.", "pos": 1226740}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Thank you. I have not felt any inconvenience from that disorder yet.", "pos": 1226918}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "You’re wery fortunate, Ma’am. Many people at your time of life, Ma’am, is martyrs to it. There was my mother—", "pos": 1227006}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You never mean to say, Mrs Richards, that that is your—", "pos": 1227235}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Eldest, Ma’am. Yes, indeed, it is. That’s the little fellow, Ma’am, that was the innocent cause of so much.", "pos": 1227327}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "This here, Ma’am, is him with the short legs—and they was, unusual short for leathers—as Mr Dombey made a Grinder on.", "pos": 1227451}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And now, Mrs Richards, and you too, Sir. I’ll tell you, plainly and truly, what I have come here for. You may be aware, Mrs Richards—and, possibly, you may be aware too, Sir—that a little distance has interposed itself between me and some of my friends, and that where I used to visit a good deal, I do not visit now. Of course, how our little coolness has arisen is of no moment, and does not require to be discussed. It is sufficient for me to say, that I have the greatest possible respect for, and interest in, Mr Dombey; and everything that relates to him.", "pos": 1227934}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "heerd it said, and, for his own part, he did think, as Mr Dombey was a difficult subject.", "pos": 1228842}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Pray don’t say so, Sir, if you please. Let me entreat you not to say so, Sir, either now, or at any future time. Such observations cannot but be very painful to me; and to a gentleman, whose mind is constituted as, I am quite sure, yours is, can afford no permanent satisfaction. All that I wish to say, Mrs Richards, and I address myself to you too, Sir, is this. That any intelligence of the proceedings of the family, of the welfare of the family, of the health of the family, that reaches you, will be always most acceptable to me. That I shall be always very glad to chat with Mrs Richards about the family, and about old time. And as Mrs Richards and I never had the least difference (though I could wish now that we had been better acquainted, but I have no one but myself to blame for that), I hope she will not object to our being very good friends now, and to my coming backwards and forwards here, when I like, without being a stranger. Now, I really hope, Mrs Richards, that you will take this, as I mean it, like a good-humoured creature, as you always were. You see, Mrs Richards, and I hope you see too, Sir—there are many little ways in which I can be slightly useful to you, if you will make no stranger of me; and in which I shall be delighted to be so. For instance, I can teach your children something. I shall bring a few little books, if you’ll allow me, and some work, and of an evening now and then, they’ll learn—dear me, they’ll learn a great deal, I trust, and be a credit to their teacher. Then, not being a stranger, I shall be in nobody’s way, and everything will go on just as if I were not here. Mrs Richards will do her mending, or her ironing, or her nursing, whatever it is, without minding me: and you’ll smoke your pipe, too, if you’re so disposed, Sir, won’t you?", "pos": 1228933}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "Thank’ee, Mum. Yes; I’ll take my bit of backer.", "pos": 1231248}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Very good of you to say so, Sir, and I really do assure you now, unfeignedly, that it will be a great comfort to me, and that whatever good I may be fortunate enough to do the children, you will more than pay back to me, if you’ll enter into this little bargain comfortably, and easily, and good-naturedly, without another word about it.", "pos": 1231316}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I am quite glad, to know you. I hope you’ll consider me your friend, and that you’ll come and see me as often as you like. Do you keep a money-box?", "pos": 1233235}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Ma’am. I’m saving up, against I’ve got enough to put in the Bank, Ma’am.", "pos": 1233427}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Very laudable indeed. I’m glad to hear it. Put this half-crown into it, if you please.", "pos": 1233522}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh thank you, Ma’am, but really I couldn’t think of depriving you.", "pos": 1233628}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I commend your independent spirit, but it’s no deprivation, I assure you. I shall be offended if you don’t take it, as a mark of my good-will. Good-night, Robin.", "pos": 1233712}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Good-night, Ma’am, and thank you!", "pos": 1233893}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, do you think you could think favourably of that proposition of mine, and give me the pleasure of your acquaintance?", "pos": 1240740}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, I tell you what it is, my lad. I’ve been turning that there, over.", "pos": 1240937}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, it’s very kind of you. I’m much obliged to you. Upon my word and honour, Captain Gills, it would be a charity to give me the pleasure of your acquaintance. It really would.", "pos": 1241085}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You see, brother. I don’t know you.", "pos": 1241296}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "But you never can know me, Captain Gills, if you don’t give me the pleasure of your acquaintance.", "pos": 1241363}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well said, my lad, and true. Now look’ee here: You’ve made some observations to me, which gives me to understand as you admire a certain sweet creetur. Hey?", "pos": 1241675}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills. Admiration is not the word. Upon my honour, you have no conception what my feelings are. If I could be dyed black, and made Miss Dombey’s slave, I should consider it a compliment. If, at the sacrifice of all my property, I could get transmigrated into Miss Dombey’s dog—I—I really think I should never leave off wagging my tail. I should be so perfectly happy, Captain Gills!", "pos": 1241889}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad, if you’re in arnest—", "pos": 1242455}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills. I’m in such a state of mind, and am so dreadfully in earnest, that if I could swear to it upon a hot piece of iron, or a live coal, or melted lead, or burning sealing-wax, Or anything of that sort, I should be glad to hurt myself, as a relief to my feelings.", "pos": 1242530}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "If you’re in arnest, you see, my lad,", "pos": 1243275}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Well, you’ll excuse me, Captain Gills, if I don’t quite follow you sometimes. But upon my word I—I—it’s a hard thing, Captain Gills, not to be able to mention Miss Dombey. I really have got such a dreadful load here! that I feel night and day, exactly as if somebody was sitting upon me.", "pos": 1244171}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Them is the terms I offer. If they’re hard upon you, brother, as mayhap they are, give ’em a wide berth, sheer off, and part company cheerily!", "pos": 1244564}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, I hardly know how it is, but after what you told me when I came here, for the first time, I—I feel that I’d rather think about Miss Dombey in your society than talk about her in almost anybody else’s. Therefore, Captain Gills, if you’ll give me the pleasure of your acquaintance, I shall be very happy to accept it on your own conditions. I wish to be honourable, Captain Gills, and therefore I am obliged to say that I can not help thinking about Miss Dombey. It’s impossible for me to make a promise not to think about her.", "pos": 1244730}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad, a man’s thoughts is like the winds, and nobody can’t answer for ’em for certain, any length of time together. Is it a treaty as to words?", "pos": 1245422}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "As to words, Captain Gills, I think I can bind myself.", "pos": 1245570}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh! I beg your pardon, Captain, but you mayn’t be in want of any pigeons, may you, Sir?", "pos": 1246538}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, my lad,", "pos": 1246628}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Because I was wishing to dispose of mine, Captain. I’m going, Captain, if you please,", "pos": 1246663}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Going? Where are you going?", "pos": 1246847}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "What? didn’t you know that I was going to leave you, Captain? Oh yes, Captain, I am going to give you warning. I thought you’d have known that beforehand, perhaps. If you could be so good as provide yourself soon, Captain, it would be a great convenience to me. You couldn’t provide yourself by to-morrow morning, I am afraid, Captain: could you, do you think?", "pos": 1246935}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And you’re a going to desert your colours, are you, my lad?", "pos": 1247484}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh, it’s very hard upon a cove, Captain, that he can’t give lawful warning, without being frowned at in that way, and called a deserter. You haven’t any right to call a poor cove names, Captain. It ain’t because I’m a servant and you’re a master, that you’re to go and libel me. What wrong have I done? Come, Captain, let me know what my crime is, will you? Come, Captain, give my crime a name! What have I been and done? Have I stolen any of the property? have I set the house a-fire? If I have, why don’t you give me in charge, and try it? But to take away the character of a lad that’s been a good servant to you, because he can’t afford to stand in his own light for your good, what a injury it is, and what a bad return for faithful service! This is the way young coves is spiled and drove wrong. I wonder at you, Captain, I do.", "pos": 1247602}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Look ye here, my boy, Don’t you pay out no more of them words.", "pos": 1249479}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, then, don’t you pay in no more of your words, Captain. I’d sooner you took my blood than my character.", "pos": 1249576}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Because you have heerd, may be, of such a thing as a rope’s end.", "pos": 1249806}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh, have I though, Captain? No I haven’t. I never heerd of any such a article!", "pos": 1249873}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well, it’s my belief as you’ll know more about it pretty soon, if you don’t keep a bright look-out. I can read your signals, my lad. You may go.", "pos": 1250004}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh! I may go at once, may I, Captain? But mind! I never asked to go at once, Captain. You are not to take away my character again, because you send me off of your own accord. And you’re not to stop any of my wages, Captain!", "pos": 1250151}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Good-night, Captain. I leave you without malice!", "pos": 1250994}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Bunsby, what cheer, my lad, what cheer?", "pos": 1256403}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Shipmet, hearty, hearty.", "pos": 1256445}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Bunsby! here you are! a man as can give an opinion as is brighter than di’monds—and give me the lad with the tarry trousers as shines to me like di’monds bright, for which you’ll overhaul the Stanfell’s Budget, and when found make a note. Here you are, a man as gave an opinion in this here very place, that has come true, every letter on it,", "pos": 1256637}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Ay, ay?", "pos": 1257020}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Every letter,", "pos": 1257046}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "For why? Which way? If so, why not? Therefore.", "pos": 1257140}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My dear Ned Cuttle. When I left home for the West Indies in forlorn search of intelligence of my dear boy, I knew that if you were acquainted with my design, you would thwart it, or accompany me; and therefore I kept it secret. If you ever read this letter, Ned, I am likely to be dead. You will easily forgive an old friend’s folly then, and will feel for the restlessness and uncertainty in which he wandered away on such a wild voyage. So no more of that. I have little hope that my poor boy will ever read these words, or gladden your eyes with the sight of his frank face any more. No, no; no more,", "pos": 1258993}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "In the Bays of Biscay, O!", "pos": 1259843}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well, well! Affliction sore, long time he bore, and let us overhaul the wollume, and there find it. Ay, ay, to be sure, what’s the good o’ them in two or three hundred fathoms o’ water! But if he should be by, when it is opened;' or should know of it at any other time;' my blessing on him! In case the accompanying paper is not legally written, it matters very little, for there is no one interested but you and he, and my plain wish is, that if he is living he should have what little there may be, and if (as I fear) otherwise, that you should have it, Ned. You will respect my wish, I know. God bless you for it, and for all your friendliness besides, to Solomon Gills.' Bunsby! what do you make of this? There you sit, a man as has had his head broke from infancy up’ards, and has got a new opinion into it at every seam as has been opened. Now, what do you make o’ this?", "pos": 1260132}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "If so be, as he’s dead, my opinion is he won’t come back no more. If so be as he’s alive, my opinion is he will. Do I say he will? No. Why not? Because the bearings of this obserwation lays in the application on it.", "pos": 1261271}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Bunsby! Bunsby, you carry a weight of mind easy, as would swamp one of my tonnage soon. But in regard o’ this here will, I don’t mean to take no steps towards the property—Lord forbid!—except to keep it for a more rightful owner; and I hope yet as the rightful owner, Sol Gills, is living and’ll come back, strange as it is that he ain’t forwarded no dispatches. Now, what is your opinion, Bunsby, as to stowing of these here papers away again, and marking outside as they was opened, such a day, in the presence of John Bunsby and Ed’ard Cuttle?", "pos": 1261534}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Oh, Cap’en Cuttle, Cap’en Cuttle! Oh, Cap’en Cuttle, Cap’en Cuttle, do you dare to look me in the face, and not be struck down in the berth!", "pos": 1265568}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stand by!", "pos": 1265919}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Oh I was a weak and trusting Fool when I took you under my roof, Cap’en Cuttle, I was! To think of the benefits I’ve showered on that man, and the way in which I brought my children up to love and honour him as if he was a father to ’em, when there ain’t a housekeeper, no nor a lodger in our street, don’t know that I lost money by that man, and by his guzzlings and his muzzlings and when they cried out one and all, shame upon him for putting upon an industrious woman, up early and late for the good of her young family, and keeping her poor place so clean that a individual might have ate his dinner, yes, and his tea too, if he was so disposed, off any one of the floors or stairs, in spite of all his guzzlings and his muzzlings, such was the care and pains bestowed upon him! And he runs awa-a-a-y! and keeps away a twelve-month! From a woman! Such is his conscience! He hasn’t the courage to meet her hi-i-igh; but steals away, like a fellon. Why, if that baby of mine, was to offer to go and steal away, I’d do my duty as a mother by him, till he was covered with wales! A pretty sort of a man is Cap’en Cuttle, to take on for—and to lose sleep for—and to faint along of—and to think dead forsooth—and to go up and down the blessed town like a madwoman, asking questions after! Oh, a pretty sort of a man! Ha ha ha ha! He’s worth all that trouble and distress of mind, and much more. That’s nothing, bless you! Ha ha ha ha! Cap’en Cuttle. I wish to know if you’re a-coming home. Cap’en Cuttle. I wish to know if you’re a-coming home, Sir.", "pos": 1265931}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "not making so much noise about it.", "pos": 1268802}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Ay, ay, ay. Awast, my lass, awast!", "pos": 1268839}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "And who may you be, if you please! Did you ever lodge at Number Nine, Brig Place, Sir? My memory may be bad, but not with me, I think. There was a Mrs Jollson lived at Number Nine before me, and perhaps you’re mistaking me for her. That is my only ways of accounting for your familiarity, Sir.", "pos": 1268911}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Come, come, my lass, awast, awast!", "pos": 1269257}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Cuttle, I’m a-going to act as convoy home; Cuttle,", "pos": 1270003}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "are these here your traps? Done pretty taut and trim, hey, shipmet?", "pos": 1273021}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey. I must beg leave to have a few words with you.", "pos": 1281862}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "To-morrow,", "pos": 1281944}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "There is no time like the present, Madam. You mistake your position. I am used to choose my own times; not to have them chosen for me. I think you scarcely understand who and what I am, Mrs Dombey.", "pos": 1281970}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I think, that I understand you very well.", "pos": 1282185}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey, it is very necessary that there should be some understanding arrived at between us. Your conduct does not please me, Madam. I repeat, Mrs Dombey, does not please me. I have already taken occasion to request that it may be corrected. I now insist upon it.", "pos": 1283773}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You chose a fitting occasion for your first remonstrance, Sir, and you adopt a fitting manner, and a fitting word for your second. You insist! To me!", "pos": 1284164}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Madam. I have made you my wife. You bear my name. You are associated with my position and my reputation. I will not say that the world in general may be disposed to think you honoured by that association; but I will say that I am accustomed to ‘insist,’ to my connexions and dependents.", "pos": 1284316}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Which may you be pleased to consider me?", "pos": 1284661}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Possibly I may think that my wife should partake—or does partake, and cannot help herself—of both characters, Mrs Dombey. You are too expensive, Madam. You are extravagant. You waste a great deal of money—or what would be a great deal in the pockets of most gentlemen—in cultivating a kind of society that is useless to me, and, indeed, that upon the whole is disagreeable to me. I have to insist upon a total change in all these respects. I know that in the novelty of possessing a tithe of such means as Fortune has placed at your disposal, ladies are apt to run into a sudden extreme. There has been more than enough of that extreme. I beg that Mrs Granger’s very different experiences may now come to the instruction of Mrs Dombey.", "pos": 1284714}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You will further please, Madam, to understand distinctly, that I am to be deferred to and obeyed. That I must have a positive show and confession of deference before the world, Madam. I am used to this. I require it as my right. In short I will have it. I consider it no unreasonable return for the worldly advancement that has befallen you; and I believe nobody will be surprised, either at its being required from you, or at your making it.—To Me—To Me! I have learnt from your mother, Mrs Dombey, what no doubt you know, namely, that Brighton is recommended for her health. Mr Carker has been so good. Mr Carker has been so good as to go down and secure a house there, for a time. On the return of the establishment to London, I shall take such steps for its better management as I consider necessary. One of these, will be the engagement at Brighton (if it is to be effected), of a very respectable reduced person there, a Mrs Pipchin, formerly employed in a situation of trust in my family, to act as housekeeper. An establishment like this, presided over but nominally, Mrs Dombey, requires a competent head. I observed, and this concludes what I deem it necessary to say to you at present, Mrs Dombey—I observed a moment ago, Madam, that my allusion to Mr Carker was received in a peculiar manner. On the occasion of my happening to point out to you, before that confidential agent, the objection I had to your mode of receiving my visitors, you were pleased to object to his presence. You will have to get the better of that objection, Madam, and to accustom yourself to it very probably on many similar occasions; unless you adopt the remedy which is in your own hands, of giving me no cause of complaint. Mr Carker. Mr Carker being in my confidence, Mrs Dombey, may very well be in yours to such an extent. I hope, Mrs Dombey. I may not find it necessary ever to entrust Mr Carker with any message of objection or remonstrance to you; but as it would be derogatory to my position and reputation to be frequently holding trivial disputes with a lady upon whom I have conferred the highest distinction that it is in my power to bestow, I shall not scruple to avail myself of his services if I see occasion.", "pos": 1286411}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Wait! For God’s sake! I must speak to you. Did I ever tempt you to seek my hand? Did I ever use any art to win you? Was I ever more conciliating to you when you pursued me, than I have been since our marriage? Was I ever other to you than I am?", "pos": 1289974}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It is wholly unnecessary, Madam, to enter upon such discussions.", "pos": 1290538}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Did you think I loved you? Did you know I did not? Did you ever care, Man! for my heart, or propose to yourself to win the worthless thing? Was there any poor pretence of any in our bargain? Upon your side, or on mine?", "pos": 1290623}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "These questions, are all wide of the purpose, Madam.", "pos": 1290844}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You answer each of them. You answer me before I speak, I see. How can you help it; you who know the miserable truth as well as I? Now, tell me. If I loved you to devotion, could I do more than render up my whole will and being to you, as you have just demanded? If my heart were pure and all untried, and you its idol, could you ask more; could you have more?", "pos": 1291058}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Possibly not, Madam,", "pos": 1291420}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You know how different I am. You see me looking on you now, and you can read the warmth of passion for you that is breathing in my face. You know my general history. You have spoken of my mother. Do you think you can degrade, or bend or break, me to submission and obedience? If there is anything unusual here, as I know there are unusual feelings here, consider that there is no common meaning in the appeal I am going to make you. Yes, for I am going; to appeal to you. If you can believe that I am of such a nature now, as would make what I now say almost incredible to myself, said to any man who had become my husband, but, above all, said to you, you may, perhaps, attach the greater weight to it. In the dark end to which we are tending, and may come, we shall not involve ourselves alone (that might not be much) but others. I speak to you for the sake of others. Also your own sake; and for mine. Since our marriage, you have been arrogant to me; and I have repaid you in kind. You have shown to me and everyone around us, every day and hour, that you think I am graced and distinguished by your alliance. I do not think so, and have shown that too. It seems you do not understand, or (so far as your power can go) intend that each of us shall take a separate course; and you expect from me instead, a homage you will never have.", "pos": 1291463}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey", "text": "Never", "pos": 1293825}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I feel no tenderness towards you; that you know. You would care nothing for it, if I did or could. I know as well that you feel none towards me. But we are linked together; and in the knot that ties us, as I have said, others are bound up. We must both die; we are both connected with the dead already, each by a little child. Let us forbear. There is no wealth, that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them; I have weighed them; and I will be true to what I undertake. If you will promise to forbear on your part, I will promise to forbear on mine. We are a most unhappy pair, in whom, from different causes, every sentiment that blesses marriage, or justifies it, is rooted out; but in the course of time, some friendship, or some fitness for each other, may arise between us. I will try to hope so, if you will make the endeavour too; and I will look forward to a better and a happier use of age than I have made of youth or prime.", "pos": 1293862}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Madam. I cannot entertain any proposal of this extraordinary nature. I cannot, consent to temporise or treat with you, Mrs Dombey, upon a subject as to which you are in possession of my opinions and expectations. I have stated my ultimatum, Madam, and have only to request your very serious attention to it.", "pos": 1295338}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Go, Sir! Our first and last confidence is at an end. Nothing can make us stranger to each other than we are henceforth.", "pos": 1296133}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I shall take my rightful course, Madam, undeterred, you may be sure, by any general declamation. I place my reliance on your improved sense of duty, and more correct feeling, and better reflection, Madam,", "pos": 1296317}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Now, my dearest Grangeby, you must posively prom, come down very soon.", "pos": 1299077}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I said just now, Madam, that I am coming in a day or two.", "pos": 1299236}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Bless you, Domber!", "pos": 1299342}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Begad, Ma’am, you don’t ask old Joe to come!", "pos": 1299552}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Sterious wretch, who’s he? Oh! You mean yourself, you naughty creature!", "pos": 1299599}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Devilish queer, Sir. Bad case. Never did wrap up enough; Why who should J. B. mean by Joe, but old Joe Bagstock—Joseph—your slave—Joe, Ma’am? Here! Here’s the man! Here are the Bagstock bellows, Ma’am!", "pos": 1299768}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "My dearest Edith—Grangeby—it’s most trordinry thing, that Major—", "pos": 1300112}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Bagstock! J. B.!", "pos": 1300208}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Well, it don’t matter. Edith, my love, you know I never could remember names—what was it? oh!—most trordinry thing that so many people want to come down to see me. I’m not going for long. I’m coming back. Surely they can wait, till I come back! I won’t have visitors—really don’t want visitors, little repose—and all that sort of thing—is what I quire. No odious brutes must proach me till I’ve shaken off this numbness;", "pos": 1300283}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "And is Joseph absolutely banished? Damme, Ma’am, is Cleopatra so hard-hearted as to forbid her faithful Antony Bagstock to approach the presence?", "pos": 1303301}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Go along! I can’t bear you. You shall see me when I come back, if you are very good.", "pos": 1303512}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Tell Joseph, he may live in hope, Ma’am, or he’ll die in despair.", "pos": 1303617}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith, my dear. Tell him—", "pos": 1303741}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What?", "pos": 1303781}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Such dreadful words. He uses such dreadful words!", "pos": 1303789}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "I’ll tell you what, Sir, a fair friend of ours has removed to Queer Street.", "pos": 1303993}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What do you mean, Major?", "pos": 1304148}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "I mean to say, Dombey, that you’ll soon be an orphan-in-law. Damme, Sir, there is no use in disguising a fact. Joe is blunt, Sir. That’s his nature. If you take old Josh at all, you take him as you find him; and a devilish rusty, old rasper, of a close-toothed, J. B. file, you do find him. Dombey, your wife’s mother is on the move, Sir.", "pos": 1304195}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I fear, that Mrs Skewton is shaken.", "pos": 1304754}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Shaken, Dombey! Smashed!", "pos": 1304836}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Change, however, and attention, may do much yet.", "pos": 1304881}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Don’t believe it, Sir. Damme, Sir, she never wrapped up enough. If a man don’t wrap up, he has nothing to fall back upon. But some people will die. They will do it. Damme, they will. They’re obstinate. I tell you what, Dombey, it may not be ornamental; it may not be refined; it may be rough and tough; but a little of the genuine old English Bagstock stamina, Sir, would do all the good in the world to the human breed.", "pos": 1304953}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "What is it that you have to sell?", "pos": 1309414}
{"speaker": "the younger woman", "text": "Only this. I sold myself long ago.", "pos": 1309462}
{"speaker": "the old woman", "text": "My Lady, don’t believe her, don’t believe what she says. She loves to talk like that. She’s my handsome and undutiful daughter. She gives me nothing but reproaches, my Lady, for all I have done for her. Look at her now, my Lady, how she turns upon her poor old mother with her looks.", "pos": 1309569}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have seen you, before.", "pos": 1310114}
{"speaker": "the old woman", "text": "Yes, my Lady. Down in Warwickshire. The morning among the trees. When you wouldn’t give me nothing. But the gentleman, he give me something! Oh, bless him, bless him!", "pos": 1310169}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "It’s of no use attempting to stay me, Edith! You know nothing about it. I won’t be dissuaded. I am sure this is an excellent woman, and a good mother.", "pos": 1310449}
{"speaker": "the old woman", "text": "Yes, my Lady, yes. Thankee, my Lady. Lord bless you, my Lady. Sixpence more, my pretty Lady, as a good mother yourself.", "pos": 1310666}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And treated undutifully enough, too, my good old creature, sometimes, I assure you. There! Shake hands with me. You’re a very good old creature—full of what’s-his-name—and all that. You’re all affection and et cetera, ain’t you?", "pos": 1310848}
{"speaker": "the old woman", "text": "Oh, yes, my Lady!", "pos": 1311111}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Yes, I’m sure you are; and so’s that gentlemanly creature Grangeby. I must really shake hands with you again. And now you can go, you know; and I hope, that you’ll show more gratitude, and natural what’s-its-name, and all the rest of it—but I never remember names—for there never was a better mother than the good old creature’s been to you. Come, Edith!", "pos": 1311131}
{"speaker": "the younger woman", "text": "You’re a handsome woman, but good looks won’t save us. And you’re a proud woman; but pride won’t save us. We had need to know each other when we meet again!", "pos": 1311971}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "And you’ve brought Diogenes, too, Miss Dombey!", "pos": 1314337}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Down, Di, down. Don’t you remember who first made us friends, Di? For shame!", "pos": 1314763}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Diogenes is quite in his native air, isn’t he, Miss Dombey? Miss Dombey, beg your pardon, but if you would like to walk to Blimber’s, I—I’m going there.", "pos": 1315160}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Toots. I am very glad to see you, Toots. Also to see you, Toots, in such good company. You will like, to step among our young friends, Miss Dombey, no doubt. All fellow-students of yours, Toots, once. I think we have no new disciples in our little portico, my dear, since Mr Toots left us.", "pos": 1316920}
{"speaker": "Cornelia", "text": "Except Bitherstone,", "pos": 1317520}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Ay, truly. Bitherstone is new to Mr Toots.", "pos": 1317560}
{"speaker": "Bitherstone", "text": "old Blimber", "pos": 1318204}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How are you, Feeder?", "pos": 1319890}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Gentlemen, we will now resume our studies,", "pos": 1320420}
{"speaker": "Melia", "text": "at that there Toots. But really though, now—ain’t she like her brother, only prettier?", "pos": 1321281}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey, I beg your pardon, but if you would allow me to—to— If you would allow me to—if you would not consider it a liberty, Miss Dombey, if I was to—without any encouragement at all, if I was to hope, you know. Miss Dombey. I really am in that state of adoration of you that I don’t know what to do with myself. I am the most deplorable wretch. If it wasn’t at the corner of the Square at present, I should go down on my knees, and beg and entreat of you, without any encouragement at all, just to let me hope that I may—may think it possible that you—", "pos": 1321974}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, if you please, don’t! Oh, pray don’t, Mr Toots. Stop, if you please. Don’t say any more. As a kindness and a favour to me, don’t. You have been so good to me. I am so grateful to you, I have such reason to like you for being a kind friend to me, and I do like you so much; that I am sure you are only going to say good-bye!", "pos": 1322749}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Certainly, Miss Dombey. I—I—that’s exactly what I mean. It’s of no consequence.", "pos": 1323311}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Good-bye!", "pos": 1323410}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Good-bye, Miss Dombey! I hope you won’t think anything about it. It’s—it’s of no consequence, thank you. It’s not of the least consequence in the world.", "pos": 1323438}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder, B.A.", "text": "When it is to come off?", "pos": 1324307}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "that there are certain subjects", "pos": 1324351}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Feeder, you have no idea of the sentiments with which I propose that toast.", "pos": 1324942}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder, B.A.", "text": "Oh, yes, I have, my dear Toots; and greatly they redound to your honour, old boy. if ever Toots wants a brother, he knows where to find him, either by post or parcel. I would recommend Mr Toots to learn the guitar, or, at least the flute; for women like music, when you are paying your addresses to ’em, and he has found the advantage of it himself. Cornelia Blimber. I don’t object to spectacles, and that if the Doctor were to do the handsome thing and give up the business, why, there they are—provided for. it’s his opinion that when a man has made a handsome sum by his business, he is bound to give it up; and that Cornelia would be an assistance in it which any man might be proud of.", "pos": 1325039}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey’s praises, that sometimes he thinks he should like to blow his brains out.", "pos": 1326004}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder, B.A.", "text": "that it would be a rash attempt,", "pos": 1326136}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith, what is that stone arm raised to strike me? Don’t you see it?", "pos": 1327706}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "There is nothing, mother, but your fancy.", "pos": 1327777}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "But my fancy! Everything is my fancy. Look! Is it possible that you don’t see it?", "pos": 1327821}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Indeed, mother, there is nothing. Should I sit unmoved, if there were any such thing there?", "pos": 1327905}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Unmoved? it’s gone now—and why are you so unmoved? That is not my fancy, Edith. It turns me cold to see you sitting at my side.", "pos": 1327999}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I am sorry, mother.", "pos": 1328153}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Sorry! You seem always sorry. But it is not for me!", "pos": 1328175}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "Edith! we are going home soon; going back. You mean that I shall go home again?", "pos": 1328753}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes, mother, yes.", "pos": 1328835}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "And what he said—what’s-his-name, I never could remember names—Major—that dreadful word, when we came away—it’s not true? Edith! it’s not that that is the matter with me.", "pos": 1328855}
{"speaker": "Mrs Skewton", "text": "For I nursed you!", "pos": 1331163}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Mother, can you hear me? Can you recollect the night before I married? I told you then that I forgave your part in it, and prayed God to forgive my own. I told you that time past was at an end between us. I say so now, again. Kiss me, mother.", "pos": 1331278}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Dombey, upon my soul, I am very much shocked to see you on such a melancholy occasion. My poor aunt! She was a devilish lively woman.", "pos": 1332283}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Very much so.", "pos": 1332460}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "And made up, really young, you know, considering. I am sure, on the day of your marriage, I thought she was good for another twenty years. In point of fact, I said so to a man at Brooks’s—little Billy Joper—you know him, no doubt—man with a glass in his eye?", "pos": 1332476}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "In reference to the obsequies, whether there is any suggestion—", "pos": 1332786}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Well, upon my life, I really don’t know. There’s a Mausoleum down at my place, in the park, but I’m afraid it’s in bad repair, and, in point of fact, in a devil of a state. But for being a little out at elbows, I should have had it put to rights; but I believe the people come and make pic-nic parties there inside the iron railings. There’s an uncommon good church in the village, pure specimen of the Anglo-Norman style, and admirably well sketched too by Lady Jane Finchbury—woman with tight stays—but they’ve spoilt it with whitewash, I understand, and it’s a long journey.", "pos": 1332966}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Perhaps Brighton itself,", "pos": 1333623}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Upon my honour, Dombey, I don’t think we could do better. It’s on the spot, you see, and a very cheerful place.", "pos": 1333670}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "And when. And when, would it be convenient?", "pos": 1333806}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "I shall make a point, of pledging myself for any day you think best. I shall have great pleasure (melancholy pleasure, of course) in following my poor aunt to the confines of the—in point of fact, to the grave,", "pos": 1333883}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Would Monday do for leaving town?", "pos": 1334153}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Monday would suit me to perfection. I’m really excessively sorry, Dombey, that you should have so much trouble about it;", "pos": 1334205}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Not at all.", "pos": 1334544}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Tom Johnson. Man with cork leg, from White’s. What, are you here, Tommy? Foley on a blood mare. The Smalder girls", "pos": 1334995}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What, scapegrace! Have you left your situation and come to me?", "pos": 1339141}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh if you please, Sir, you said, you know, when I come here last—", "pos": 1339247}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I said. I said, what did I say?", "pos": 1339331}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "If you please, Sir, you didn’t say nothing at all, Sir,", "pos": 1339379}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You’ll come to an evil end, my vagabond friend, I foresee. There’s ruin in store for you.", "pos": 1339609}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh if you please, don’t, Sir! I’m sure, Sir, I only want to work for you, Sir, and to wait upon you, Sir, and to do faithful whatever I’m bid, Sir.", "pos": 1339700}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You had better do faithfully whatever you are bid, if you have anything to do with me.", "pos": 1339898}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, I know that, Sir. I’m sure of that, Sir. If you’ll only be so good as try me, Sir! And if ever you find me out, Sir, doing anything against your wishes, I give you leave to kill me.", "pos": 1340010}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You dog! That’s nothing to what I’d do to you, if you tried to deceive me.", "pos": 1340229}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Sir. I’m sure you would be down upon me dreadful, Sir. I wouldn’t attempt for to go and do it, Sir, not if I was bribed with golden guineas.", "pos": 1340380}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "So you have left your old service, and come here to ask me to take you into mine, eh?", "pos": 1340787}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, if you please, Sir,", "pos": 1340891}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Well! You know me, boy?", "pos": 1341065}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Please, Sir, yes, Sir,", "pos": 1341109}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Take care, then! Halloa! You have been—shut that door. You have been used to eaves-dropping. Do you know what that means?", "pos": 1341272}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Listening, Sir?", "pos": 1341712}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And watching, and so forth.", "pos": 1341798}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I wouldn’t do such a thing here, Sir, upon my word and honour, I wouldn’t, Sir, I wish I may die if I would, Sir, for anything that could be promised to me. I should consider it is as much as all the world was worth, to offer to do such a thing, unless I was ordered, Sir.", "pos": 1341828}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You had better not You have been used, too, to babbling and tattling, Beware of that here, or you’re a lost rascal,", "pos": 1342119}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I never thought, to see you here, I’m sure. This is an extraordinary day in my calendar. No occasion is very special to a man like you, who may do anything; but to a man like me, the case is widely different.", "pos": 1343236}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have a tasteful place here, Carker,", "pos": 1343513}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You can afford to say so. Thank you.", "pos": 1343627}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Indeed. Indeed, anyone might say so. As far as it goes, it is a very commodious and well-arranged place—quite elegant.", "pos": 1343685}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "As far as it goes, truly. It wants that qualification. Well! we have said enough about it; and though you can afford to praise it, I thank you nonetheless. Will you walk in? But perhaps to you, who are so far removed, it really does look better than it is. Just as monarchs imagine attractions in the lives of beggars. Just as monarchs imagine attractions in the lives of beggars.", "pos": 1343840}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Allow me, to ask how Mrs Dombey is?", "pos": 1346574}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey is quite well. You remind me, Carker, of some conversation that I wish to have with you.", "pos": 1346873}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Robin, you can leave us. You don’t remember that boy, of course?", "pos": 1346975}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "No,", "pos": 1347205}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Not likely that a man like you would. Hardly possible. But he is one of that family from whom you took a nurse. Perhaps you may remember having generously charged yourself with his education?", "pos": 1347258}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Is it that boy? He does little credit to his education, I believe.", "pos": 1347471}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Why, he is a young rip, I am afraid. He bears that character. But the truth is, I took him into my service because, being able to get no other employment, he conceived (had been taught at home, I daresay) that he had some sort of claim upon you, and was constantly trying to dog your heels with his petition. And although my defined and recognised connexion with your affairs is merely of a business character, still I have that spontaneous interest in everything belonging to you, that—", "pos": 1347572}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker. I am sensible that you do not limit your—", "pos": 1348248}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Service,", "pos": 1348318}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "No; I prefer to say your regard, to our mere business relations. Your consideration for my feelings, hopes, and disappointments, in the little instance you have just now mentioned, is an example in point. I am obliged to you, Carker. Your allusion to it is opportune, for it prepares the way to what I was beginning to say to you, and reminds me that that involves no absolutely new relations between us, although it may involve more personal confidence on my part than I have hitherto—", "pos": 1348364}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Distinguished me with. Distinguished me with, I will not say to you how honoured I am; for a man like you well knows how much honour he has in his power to bestow at pleasure.", "pos": 1349164}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey and myself, are not quite agreed upon some points. We do not appear to understand each other yet. Mrs Dombey has something to learn.", "pos": 1349362}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Mrs Dombey is distinguished by many rare attractions; and has been accustomed, no doubt, to receive much adulation. But where there is affection, duty, and respect, any little mistakes engendered by such causes are soon set right.", "pos": 1349575}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey and myself, had some discussion, before Mrs Skewton’s death, upon the causes of my dissatisfaction; of which you will have formed a general understanding from having been a witness of what passed between Mrs Dombey and myself on the evening when you were at our—at my house.", "pos": 1350203}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "When I so much regretted being present. Proud as a man in my position necessarily must be of your familiar notice—though I give you no credit for it; you may do anything you please without losing caste—and honoured as I was by an early presentation to Mrs Dombey, before she was made eminent by bearing your name, I almost regretted that night, I assure you, that I had been the object of such especial good fortune.", "pos": 1350512}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Indeed! And why, Carker?", "pos": 1351206}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I fear, that Mrs Dombey, never very much disposed to regard me with favourable interest—one in my position could not expect that, from a lady naturally proud, and whose pride becomes her so well—may not easily forgive my innocent part in that conversation. Your displeasure is no light matter, you must remember; and to be visited with it before a third party—", "pos": 1351233}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker. I presume that I am the first consideration?", "pos": 1351631}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! Can there be a doubt about it?", "pos": 1351716}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey becomes a secondary consideration, when we are both in question, I imagine. Is that so?", "pos": 1351850}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Is it so? Do you know better than anyone, that you have no need to ask?", "pos": 1351969}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Then I hope, Carker, that your regret in the acquisition of Mrs Dombey’s displeasure, may be almost counterbalanced by your satisfaction in retaining my confidence and good opinion.", "pos": 1352062}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have the misfortune, I find, to have incurred that displeasure. Mrs Dombey has expressed it to you?", "pos": 1352264}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey has expressed various opinions, in which I do not participate, and which I am not inclined to discuss, or to recall. I made Mrs Dombey acquainted, some time since, as I have already told you, with certain points of domestic deference and submission on which I felt it necessary to insist. I failed to convince Mrs Dombey of the expediency of her immediately altering her conduct in those respects, with a view to her own peace and welfare, and my dignity; and I informed Mrs Dombey that if I should find it necessary to object or remonstrate again, I should express my opinion to her through yourself, my confidential agent. Now, Carker. I do not hesitate to say to you that I will carry my point. I am not to be trifled with. Mrs Dombey must understand that my will is law, and that I cannot allow of one exception to the whole rule of my life. You will have the goodness to undertake this charge, which, coming from me, is not unacceptable to you, I hope, whatever regret you may politely profess—for which I am obliged to you on behalf of Mrs Dombey; and you will have the goodness, I am persuaded, to discharge it as exactly as any other commission.", "pos": 1352387}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You know, that you have only to command me.", "pos": 1353779}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I know, that I have only to command you. It is necessary that I should proceed in this. Mrs Dombey is a lady undoubtedly highly qualified, in many respects, to—", "pos": 1353843}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To do credit even to your choice,", "pos": 1354062}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes; if you please to adopt that form of words, and at present I do not conceive that Mrs Dombey does that credit to it, to which it is entitled. There is a principle of opposition in Mrs Dombey that must be eradicated; that must be overcome: Mrs Dombey does not appear to understand, that the idea of opposition to Me is monstrous and absurd.", "pos": 1354146}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "We, in the City, know you better,", "pos": 1354560}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You know me better. I hope so. Though, indeed, I am bound to do Mrs Dombey the justice of saying, however inconsistent it may seem with her subsequent conduct (which remains unchanged), that on my expressing my disapprobation and determination to her, with some severity, on the occasion to which I have referred, my admonition appeared to produce a very powerful effect. I wish you to have the goodness, then, to inform Mrs Dombey, Carker, from me, that I must recall our former conversation to her remembrance, in some surprise that it has not yet had its effect. That I must insist upon her regulating her conduct by the injunctions laid upon her in that conversation. That I am not satisfied with her conduct. That I am greatly dissatisfied with it. And that I shall be under the very disagreeable necessity of making you the bearer of yet more unwelcome and explicit communications, if she has not the good sense and the proper feeling to adapt herself to my wishes, as the first Mrs Dombey did, and, I believe I may add, as any other lady in her place would.", "pos": 1354642}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "The first Mrs Dombey lived very happily,", "pos": 1355806}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "The first Mrs Dombey had great good sense, and very correct feeling.", "pos": 1355862}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Is Miss Dombey like her mother, do you think? I have approached a painful subject. Pray forgive me. I forget these chains of association in the interest I have. Pray forgive me.", "pos": 1355992}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker, there is no occasion for apology. You mistake. The association is with the matter in hand, and not with any recollection, as you suppose. I do not approve of Mrs Dombey’s behaviour towards my daughter.", "pos": 1356585}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Pardon me. I don’t quite understand.", "pos": 1356933}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Understand then, that you may make that—that you will make that, if you please—matter of direct objection from me to Mrs Dombey. You will please to tell her that her show of devotion for my daughter is disagreeable to me. It is likely to be noticed. It is likely to induce people to contrast Mrs Dombey in her relation towards my daughter, with Mrs Dombey in her relation towards myself. You will have the goodness to let Mrs Dombey know, plainly, that I object to it; and that I expect her to defer, immediately, to my objection. Mrs Dombey may be in earnest, or she may be pursuing a whim, or she may be opposing me; but I object to it in any case, and in every case. If Mrs Dombey is in earnest, so much the less reluctant should she be to desist; for she will not serve my daughter by any such display. If my wife has any superfluous gentleness, and duty over and above her proper submission to me, she may bestow them where she pleases, perhaps; but I will have submission first!—Carker, you will have the goodness not to omit or slur this point, but to consider it a very important part of your instructions.", "pos": 1356990}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I beg your pardon, but let me understand. Mrs Dombey is aware of the probability of your making me the organ of your displeasure?", "pos": 1358795}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes. I have said so.", "pos": 1359028}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes, but why?", "pos": 1359072}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Why! Because I told her.", "pos": 1359116}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Ay. But why did you tell her? You see, if I perfectly understand what is in your mind, I am so much more likely to be useful, and to have the happiness of being effectually employed. I think I do understand. I have not the honour of Mrs Dombey’s good opinion. In my position, I have no reason to expect it; but I take the fact to be, that I have not got it?", "pos": 1359189}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Possibly not,", "pos": 1359696}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Consequently, your making the communications to Mrs Dombey through me, is sure to be particularly unpalatable to that lady?", "pos": 1359728}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "It appears to me, that Mrs Dombey’s views upon the subject form no part of it as it presents itself to you and me, Carker. But it may be so.", "pos": 1359872}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And—pardon me—do I misconceive you, when I think you descry in this, a likely means of humbling Mrs Dombey’s pride—I use the word as expressive of a quality which, kept within due bounds, adorns and graces a lady so distinguished for her beauty and accomplishments—and, not to say of punishing her, but of reducing her to the submission you so naturally and justly require?", "pos": 1360088}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am not accustomed, Carker, as you know, to give such close reasons for any course of conduct I think proper to adopt, but I will gainsay nothing of this. If you have any objection to found upon it, that is indeed another thing, and the mere statement that you have one will be sufficient. But I have not supposed, I confess, that any confidence I could entrust to you, would be likely to degrade you—", "pos": 1360479}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh! I degraded! In your service!", "pos": 1360902}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "—or to place you, in a false position.", "pos": 1360957}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I in a false position! I shall be proud—delighted—to execute your trust. I could have wished, I own, to have given the lady at whose feet I would lay my humble duty and devotion—for is she not your wife!—no new cause of dislike; but a wish from you is, of course, paramount to every other consideration on earth. Besides, when Mrs Dombey is converted from these little errors of judgment, incidental, I would presume to say, to the novelty of her situation, I shall hope that she will perceive in the slight part I take, only a grain—my removed and different sphere gives room for little more—of the respect for you, and sacrifice of all considerations to you, of which it will be her pleasure and privilege to garner up a great store every day.", "pos": 1361019}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Certainly, no doubt.", "pos": 1362117}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "There is nothing more,", "pos": 1362140}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 1362308}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "but this. You will be good enough to observe, Carker, that no message to Mrs Dombey with which you are or may be charged, admits of reply. You will be good enough to bring me no reply. Mrs Dombey is informed that it does not become me to temporise or treat upon any matter that is at issue between us, and that what I say is final.", "pos": 1362335}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have given good cause of offence to Mrs Dombey now, if she knew it!", "pos": 1364110}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Mrs Dombey’s hour for receiving visitors,", "pos": 1366134}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "He had never thought Edith half so beautiful before. Much as he admired the graces of her face and form, and freshly as they dwelt within his sensual remembrance, he had never thought her half so beautiful. He was very sorry, he was deeply grieved; he couldn’t say with what unwillingness he came to prepare her for the intelligence of a very slight accident. He entreated Mrs Dombey to compose herself. Upon his sacred word of honour, there was no cause of alarm. But Mr Dombey—", "pos": 1366682}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama, if I might venture to go!", "pos": 1368335}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am directed to request, that the new housekeeper—Mrs Pipchin, I think, is the name— —may be informed that Mr Dombey wishes to have his bed prepared in his own apartments downstairs, as he prefers those rooms to any other. I shall return to Mr Dombey almost immediately. That every possible attention has been paid to his comfort, and that he is the object of every possible solicitude, I need not assure you, Madam. Let me again say, there is no cause for the least alarm. Even you may be quite at ease, believe me.", "pos": 1368858}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "And nice company he is, Miss Floy. Oh, he’s a precious piece of goods! If ever he wants a character don’t let him come to me whatever he does, that’s all I tell him.", "pos": 1375678}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Susan, don’t!", "pos": 1375867}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh, it’s very well to say ‘don’t’ Miss Floy, but raly begging your pardon we’re coming to such passes that it turns all the blood in a person’s body into pins and needles, with their pints all ways. Don’t mistake me, Miss Floy, I don’t mean nothing again your ma-in-law who has always treated me as a lady should though she is rather high I must say not that I have any right to object to that particular, but when we come to Mrs Pipchinses and having them put over us and keeping guard at your Pa’s door like crocodiles (only make us thankful that they lay no eggs!) we are a growing too outrageous!", "pos": 1375906}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Papa thinks well of Mrs Pipchin, Susan, and has a right to choose his housekeeper, you know. Pray don’t!", "pos": 1376550}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well Miss Floy, when you say don’t, I never do I hope but Mrs Pipchin acts like early gooseberries upon me Miss, and nothing less.", "pos": 1376678}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan, it is very late. I shall want nothing more tonight.", "pos": 1378687}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Ah, Miss Floy! I’m sure I often wish for them old times when I sat up with you hours later than this and fell asleep through being tired out when you was as broad awake as spectacles, but you’ve ma’s-in-law to come and sit with you now Miss Floy and I’m thankful for it I’m sure. I’ve not a word to say against ’em.", "pos": 1378808}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I shall not forget who was my old companion when I had none, Susan, never!", "pos": 1379149}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Now my dear Miss Floy, let me go downstairs again and see how your Pa is, I know you’re wretched about him, do let me go downstairs again and knock at his door my own self.", "pos": 1379448}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, go to bed. We shall hear more in the morning. I will inquire myself in the morning. Mama has been down, I daresay; or is there now, perhaps. Good-night!", "pos": 1379637}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama! what is the matter? Mama! Dear Mama! what is the matter?", "pos": 1387099}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have not been well. I have had bad dreams, my love.", "pos": 1387333}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And not yet been to bed, Mama?", "pos": 1387462}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "No. Half-waking dreams. But what does my bird do here? What does my bird do here?", "pos": 1387495}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I have been uneasy, Mama, in not seeing you tonight, and in not knowing how Papa was; and I—", "pos": 1387725}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Is it late?", "pos": 1387862}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Very late. Near day.", "pos": 1387983}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Near day!", "pos": 1388006}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Mama, what have you done to your hand?", "pos": 1388044}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Nothing, nothing. A blow. My Florence!", "pos": 1388273}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama! Oh Mama, what can I do, what should I do, to make us happier? Is there anything?", "pos": 1388396}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Nothing,", "pos": 1388502}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Are you sure of that? Can it never be? If I speak now of what is in my thoughts, in spite of what we have agreed, you will not blame me, will you?", "pos": 1388526}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It is useless, useless. I have told you, dear, that I have had bad dreams. Nothing can change them, or prevent them coming back.", "pos": 1388692}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I do not understand,", "pos": 1388838}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have dreamed of a pride that is all powerless for good, all powerful for evil; of a pride that has been galled and goaded, through many shameful years, and has never recoiled except upon itself; a pride that has debased its owner with the consciousness of deep humiliation, and never helped its owner boldly to resent it or avoid it, or to say, ‘This shall not be!’ a pride that, rightly guided, might have led perhaps to better things, but which, misdirected and perverted, like all else belonging to the same possessor, has been self-contempt, mere hardihood and ruin. I have dreamed, of such indifference and callousness, arising from this self-contempt; this wretched, inefficient, miserable pride; that it has gone on with listless steps even to the altar, yielding to the old, familiar, beckoning finger,—oh mother, oh mother!—while it spurned it; and willing to be hateful to itself for once and for all, rather than to be stung daily in some new form. Mean, poor thing! And I have dreamed, that in a first late effort to achieve a purpose, it has been trodden on, and trodden down by a base foot, but turns and looks upon him. I have dreamed that it is wounded, hunted, set upon by dogs, but that it stands at bay, and will not yield; no, that it cannot if it would; but that it is urged on to hate. Oh Florence! I think I have been nearly mad tonight! Don't leave me! be near me! I have no hope but in you! For you are weary, dearest, and unhappy, and should rest.", "pos": 1388942}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am indeed unhappy, dear Mama, tonight. But you are weary and unhappy, too.", "pos": 1391177}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Not when you lie asleep so near me, sweet.", "pos": 1391273}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Be near me, Florence. I have no hope but in you!", "pos": 1392116}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I have often said I would, and now I will!", "pos": 1393085}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Come in! What do you want?", "pos": 1393950}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "If you please, Sir, I wish to speak to you. I have been in your service, Sir, now twelve “year a waiting on Miss Floy my own young lady who couldn’t speak plain when I first come here and I was old in this house when Mrs Richards was new, I may not be Meethosalem, but I am not a child in arms. There never was a dearer or a blesseder young lady than is my young lady, Sir, and I ought to know a great deal better than some for I have seen her in her grief and I have seen her in her joy (there’s not been much of it) and I have seen her with her brother and I have seen her in her loneliness and some have never seen her, and I say to some and all—I do! that she’s the blessedest and dearest angel is Miss Floy that ever drew the breath of life, the more that I was torn to pieces Sir the more I’d say it though I may not be a Fox’s Martyr. No one could be anything but true and faithful to Miss Floy, Sir, and I take no merit for my service of twelve year, for I love her—yes, I say to some and all I do! but true and faithful service gives me right to speak I hope, and speak I must and will now, right or wrong.", "pos": 1394214}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What do you mean, woman? How do you dare?", "pos": 1396082}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "What I mean, Sir, is to speak respectful and without offence, but out, and how I dare I know not but I do! Oh! you don’t know my young lady Sir you don’t indeed, you’d never know so little of her, if you did.", "pos": 1396160}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Woman, leave the room.", "pos": 1397263}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Begging your pardon, not even if I am to leave the situation, Sir, in which I have been so many years and seen so much—although I hope you’d never have the heart to send me from Miss Floy for such a cause—will I go now till I have said the rest, I may not be a Indian widow Sir and I am not and I would not so become but if I once made up my mind to burn myself alive, I’d do it! And I’ve made my mind up to go on. There ain’t a person in your service, Sir, that has always stood more in awe of you than me and you may think how true it is when I make so bold as say that I have hundreds and hundreds of times thought of speaking to you and never been able to make my mind up to it till last night, but last night decided of me. I have seen. Miss Floy strive and strive when nothing but a child so sweet and patient that the best of women might have copied from her, I’ve seen her sitting nights together half the night through to help her delicate brother with his learning, I’ve seen her helping him and watching him at other times—some well know when—I’ve seen her, with no encouragement and no help, grow up to be a lady, thank God! that is the grace and pride of every company she goes in, and I’ve always seen her cruelly neglected and keenly feeling of it—I say to some and all, I have!—and never said one word, but ordering one’s self lowly and reverently towards one’s betters, is not to be a worshipper of graven images, and I will and must speak!", "pos": 1397307}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Is there anybody there? where are the men? where are the women? Is there no one there?", "pos": 1399099}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I left my dear young lady out of bed late last night, and I knew why, for you was ill Sir and she didn’t know how ill and that was enough to make her wretched as I saw it did. I may not be a Peacock; but I have my eyes—and I sat up a little in my own room thinking she might be lonesome and might want me, and I saw her steal downstairs and come to this door as if it was a guilty thing to look at her own Pa, and then steal back again and go into them lonely drawing-rooms, a-crying so, that I could hardly bear to hear it. I can not bear to hear it. It’s not the first time I have heard it, not by many and many a time you don’t know your own daughter, Sir, you don’t know what you’re doing, Sir, I say to some and all, that it’s a sinful shame!", "pos": 1399220}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Why, hoity toity! What’s this, indeed?", "pos": 1400146}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What’s this? What’s this, Madam? You who are at the head of this household, and bound to keep it in order, have reason to inquire. Do you know this woman?", "pos": 1400448}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "I know very little good of her, Sir. How dare you come here, you hussy? Go along with you!", "pos": 1400643}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Do you call it managing this establishment, Madam, to leave a person like this at liberty to come and talk to me! A gentleman—in his own house—in his own room—assailed with the impertinences of women-servants!", "pos": 1400844}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Well, Sir. I exceedingly deplore it; nothing can be more irregular; nothing can be more out of all bounds and reason; but I regret to say, Sir, that this young woman is quite beyond control. She has been spoiled by Miss Dombey, and is amenable to nobody. You know you’re not. For shame, you hussy! Go along with you!", "pos": 1401074}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "If you find people in my service who are not to be controlled, Mrs Pipchin, you know what to do with them, I presume. You know what you are here for? Take her away!", "pos": 1401521}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Sir, I know what to do, and of course shall do it. Susan Nipper, a month’s warning from this hour.", "pos": 1401737}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh indeed!", "pos": 1401900}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Yes, and don’t smile at me, you minx, or I’ll know the reason why! Go along with you this minute!", "pos": 1401934}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I intend to go this minute, you may rely upon it. I have been in this house waiting on my young lady a dozen year and I won’t stop in it one hour under notice from a person owning to the name of Pipchin trust me, Mrs P.", "pos": 1402058}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "A good riddance of bad rubbish! Get along with you, or I’ll have you carried out!", "pos": 1402307}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "My comfort is, that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can’t be told too often or too plain and that no amount of Pipchinses—I hope the number of ’em mayn’t be great", "pos": 1402422}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Go along with you!", "pos": 1402719}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "can unsay what I have said, though they gave a whole year full of warnings beginning at ten o’clock in the forenoon and never leaving off till twelve at night and died of the exhaustion which would be a Jubilee!", "pos": 1402775}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Does that bold-faced slut, intend to take her warning, or does she not?", "pos": 1403339}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "the person described did not inhabit that part of the house, but that her name was Pipchin, and she was to be found in the housekeeper’s room.", "pos": 1403474}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "You saucy baggage! Go along with you this minute. Pack up your things directly! How dare you talk in this way to a gentle-woman who has seen better days?", "pos": 1403618}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "she pitied the better days that had seen Mrs Pipchin; and that for her part she considered the worst days in the year to be about that lady’s mark, except that they were much too good for her. But you needn’t trouble yourself to make a noise at my door, nor to contaminate the key-hole with your eye, I’m packing up and going you may take your affidavit.", "pos": 1403885}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan! Going to leave me! You!", "pos": 1405164}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh for goodness gracious sake, Miss Floy, don’t speak a word to me or I shall demean myself before them Pi-i-pchinses, and I wouldn’t have ’em see me cry Miss Floy for worlds!", "pos": 1405215}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan! My dear girl, my old friend! What shall I do without you! Can you bear to go away so?", "pos": 1405416}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "No-n-o-o, my darling dear Miss Floy, I can’t indeed. But it can’t be helped, I’ve done my duty, Miss, I have indeed. It’s no fault of mine. I am quite resigned. I couldn’t stay my month or I could never leave you then my darling and I must at last as well as at first, don’t speak to me Miss Floy, for though I’m pretty firm I’m not a marble doorpost, my own dear.", "pos": 1405528}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "What is it? Why is it? Won’t you tell me?", "pos": 1405911}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "No-n-no, my darling. Don’t ask me, for I mustn’t, and whatever you do don’t put in a word for me to stop, for it couldn’t be and you’d only wrong yourself, and so God bless you my own precious and forgive me any harm I have done, or any temper I have showed in all these many years! My darling there’s a many that may come to serve you and be glad to serve you and who’ll serve you well and true, but there can’t be one who’ll serve you so affectionate as me or love you half as dearly, that’s my comfort. Go-ood-bye, sweet Miss Floy!", "pos": 1406004}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Where will you go, Susan?", "pos": 1406660}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I’ve got a brother down in the country Miss—a farmer in Essex, that keeps ever so many co-o-ows and pigs and I shall go down there by the coach and sto-op with him, and don’t mind me, for I’ve got money in the Savings Banks my dear, and needn’t take another service just yet, which I couldn’t, couldn’t, couldn’t do, my heart’s own mistress!", "pos": 1406716}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Now, here’s the cab, and here’s the boxes, get along with you, do! I beg your pardon, Ma’am, but Mr Dombey’s orders are imperative. There’s your money, and the sooner this house sees your back the better.", "pos": 1407851}
{"speaker": "Towlinson", "text": "I beg your pardon, Miss, I’m sure, but Mr Toots is in the drawing-room, and sends his compliments, and begs to know how Diogenes and Master is.", "pos": 1409043}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh, how de do, Miss Dombey. God bless my soul!", "pos": 1409451}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Mr Toots, you are so friendly to me, and so honest, that I am sure I may ask a favour of you.", "pos": 1409709}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey, if you’ll only name one, you’ll—you’ll give me an appetite. To which. To which. I have long been a stranger.", "pos": 1409827}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan, who is an old friend of mine, the oldest friend I have, is about to leave here suddenly, and quite alone, poor girl. She is going home, a little way into the country. Might I ask you to take care of her until she is in the coach?", "pos": 1410000}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey, you really do me an honour and a kindness. This proof of your confidence, after the manner in which I was Beast enough to conduct myself at Brighton—", "pos": 1410256}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, no—don’t think of that. Then would you have the kindness to—to go? and to be ready to meet her when she comes out? Thank you a thousand times! You ease my mind so much. She doesn’t seem so desolate. You cannot think how grateful I feel to you, or what a good friend I am sure you are!", "pos": 1410442}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Upon my soul and body! I feel for you. Upon my word and honour I think you can hardly know your own feelings better than I imagine them. I can conceive nothing more dreadful than to have to leave Miss Dombey. I say, now, don’t! at least I mean now do, you know!", "pos": 1411849}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Do what, Mr Toots!", "pos": 1412258}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Why, come home to my place, and have some dinner before you start. My cook’s a most respectable woman—one of the most motherly people I ever saw—and she’ll be delighted to make you comfortable. Her son, was educated in the Bluecoat School, and blown up in a powder-mill.", "pos": 1412292}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I say, Susan! Miss Dombey, you know—", "pos": 1414797}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Yes, Sir.", "pos": 1414836}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Do you think she could—you know—eh?", "pos": 1414848}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I beg your pardon, Mr Toots, but I don’t hear you.", "pos": 1414886}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Do you think she could be brought, you know—not exactly at once, but in time—in a long time—to—to love me, you know? There!", "pos": 1414953}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh dear no! I should say, never. Never!", "pos": 1415099}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Thank’ee! It’s of no consequence. Good-night. It’s of no consequence, thank’ee!", "pos": 1415177}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "How is your patient, Sir?", "pos": 1416281}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "He is better. He is doing very well. I have left him for the night. Madam! May I beg the favour of a minute’s audience?", "pos": 1416339}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It is an unseasonable time, Sir, and I am fatigued. Is your business urgent?", "pos": 1416623}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It is very urgent. As I am so fortunate as to have met you, let me press my petition.", "pos": 1416702}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Where is Miss Dombey?", "pos": 1416971}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "In the morning room, Ma’am.", "pos": 1417025}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Show the way there!", "pos": 1417055}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I beg your pardon! Madam! Mrs Dombey! May I be permitted to entreat that Miss Dombey is not present? I would spare Miss Dombey, the knowledge of what I have to say. At least, Madam, I would leave it to you to decide whether she shall know of it or not. I owe that to you. It is my bounden duty to you. After our former interview, it would be monstrous in me if I did otherwise.", "pos": 1417257}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Some other room. Before I hear you, Sir. I wish you to hear me.", "pos": 1417898}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To be addressed by Mrs Dombey, even in accents of unmerited reproach, is an honour I so greatly esteem, that although I were not her servant in all things, I should defer to such a wish, most readily.", "pos": 1418299}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "If you are charged by the man whom you have just now left, Sir; with any message to me, do not attempt to deliver it, for I will not receive it. I need scarcely ask you if you are come on such an errand. I have expected you some time.", "pos": 1418517}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It is my misfortune, to be here, wholly against my will, for such a purpose. Allow me to say that I am here for two purposes. That is one.", "pos": 1418891}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "That one, Sir, is ended. Or, if you return to it—", "pos": 1419046}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Can Mrs Dombey believe, that I would return to it in the face of her prohibition? Is it possible that Mrs Dombey, having no regard to my unfortunate position, is so determined to consider me inseparable from my instructor as to do me great and wilful injustice?", "pos": 1419114}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Sir. Why do you present yourself to me, as you have done, and speak to me of love and duty to my husband, and pretend to think that I am happily married, and that I honour him? How dare you venture so to affront me, when you know—I do not know better, Sir: I have seen it in your every glance, and heard it in your every word—that in place of affection between us there is aversion and contempt, and that I despise him hardly less than I despise myself for being his! Injustice! If I had done justice to the torment you have made me feel, and to my sense of the insult you have put upon me, I should have slain you!", "pos": 1419407}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Madam. I know, and knew before today, that I have found no favour with you; and I knew why. Yes. I knew why. You have spoken so openly to me; I am so relieved by the possession of your confidence—", "pos": 1421210}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Confidence!", "pos": 1421420}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "—that I will make no pretence of concealment. I did see from the first, that there was no affection on your part for Mr Dombey—how could it possibly exist between such different subjects? And I have seen, since, that stronger feelings than indifference have been engendered in your breast—how could that possibly be otherwise, either, circumstanced as you have been? But was it for me to presume to avow this knowledge to you in so many words?", "pos": 1421481}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Was it for you, Sir, to feign that other belief, and audaciously to thrust it on me day by day?", "pos": 1421927}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Madam, it was. If I had done less, if I had done anything but that, I should not be speaking to you thus; and I foresaw—who could better foresee, for who has had greater experience of Mr Dombey than myself?—that unless your character should prove to be as yielding and obedient as that of his first submissive lady, which I did not believe— I say, which I did not believe,—the time was likely to come, when such an understanding as we have now arrived at, would be serviceable.", "pos": 1422040}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Serviceable to whom, Sir?", "pos": 1422615}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To you. I will not add to myself, as warning me to refrain even from that limited commendation of Mr Dombey, in which I can honestly indulge, in order that I may not have the misfortune of saying anything distasteful to one whose aversion and contempt, are so keen.", "pos": 1422668}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Is it honest in you, Sir, to confess to your ‘limited commendation,’ and to speak in that tone of disparagement, even of him: being his chief counsellor and flatterer!", "pos": 1422961}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Counsellor,—yes. Flatterer,—no. A little reservation I fear I must confess to. But our interest and convenience commonly oblige many of us to make professions that we cannot feel. We have partnerships of interest and convenience, friendships of interest and convenience, dealings of interest and convenience, marriages of interest and convenience, every day. Madam, why should I hesitate now, being altogether devoted to your service, to speak plainly? It was natural that a lady, endowed as you are, should think it feasible to change her husband’s character in some respects, and mould him to a better form.", "pos": 1423145}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It was not natural to me, Sir. I had never any expectation or intention of that kind.", "pos": 1423990}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "At least it was natural, that you should deem it quite possible to live with Mr Dombey as his wife, at once without submitting to him, and without coming into such violent collision with him. But, Madam, you did not know Mr Dombey (as you have since ascertained), when you thought that. You did not know how exacting and how proud he is, or how he is, if I may say so, the slave of his own greatness, and goes yoked to his own triumphal car like a beast of burden, with no idea on earth but that it is behind him and is to be drawn on, over everything and through everything. Mr Dombey is really capable of no more true consideration for you, Madam, than for me. The comparison is an extreme one; I intend it to be so; but quite just. Mr Dombey, in the plenitude of his power, asked me—I had it from his own lips yesterday morning—to be his go-between to you, because he knows I am not agreeable to you, and because he intends that I shall be a punishment for your contumacy; and besides that, because he really does consider, that I, his paid servant, am an ambassador whom it is derogatory to the dignity—not of the lady to whom I have the happiness of speaking; she has no existence in his mind—but of his wife, a part of himself, to receive. You may imagine how regardless of me, how obtuse to the possibility of my having any individual sentiment or opinion he is, when he tells me, openly, that I am so employed. You know how perfectly indifferent to your feelings he is, when he threatens you with such a messenger. As you, of course, have not forgotten that he did. I do not recall all this to widen the breach between yourself and Mr Dombey, Madam—Heaven forbid! what would it profit me?—but as an example of the hopelessness of impressing Mr Dombey with a sense that anybody is to be considered when he is in question. We who are about him, have, in our various positions, done our part, I daresay, to confirm him in his way of thinking; but if we had not done so, others would—or they would not have been about him; and it has always been, from the beginning, the very staple of his life. Mr Dombey has had to deal, in short, with none but submissive and dependent persons, who have bowed the knee, and bent the neck, before him. He has never known what it is to have angry pride and strong resentment opposed to him. Mr Dombey, though a most honourable gentleman, is so prone to pervert even facts to his own view, when he is at all opposed, in consequence of the warp in his mind, that he—can I give a better instance than this!—he sincerely believes (you will excuse the folly of what I am about to say; it not being mine) that his severe expression of opinion to his present wife, on a certain special occasion she may remember, before the lamented death of Mrs Skewton, produced a withering effect, and for the moment quite subdued her! Madam. I have done with this. Your own opinions are so strong, and, I am persuaded, so unalterable, that I am almost afraid to incur your displeasure anew, when I say that in spite of these defects and my full knowledge of them, I have become habituated to Mr Dombey, and esteem him. But when I say so, it is not, believe me, for the mere sake of vaunting a feeling that is so utterly at variance with your own, and for which you can have no sympathy but to give you an assurance of the zeal with which, in this unhappy matter, I am yours, and the indignation with which I regard the part I am to fill! It is growing late, and you are, as you said, fatigued. But the second object of this interview, I must not forget. I must recommend you, I must entreat you in the most earnest manner, for sufficient reasons that I have, to be cautious in your demonstrations of regard for Miss Dombey.", "pos": 1424298}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Cautious! What do you mean?", "pos": 1429083}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "To be careful how you exhibit too much affection for that young lady.", "pos": 1429113}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Too much affection, Sir! Who judges my affection, or measures it out? You?", "pos": 1429185}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "It is not I who do so.", "pos": 1429312}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Who then?", "pos": 1429374}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Can you not guess who then?", "pos": 1429386}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I do not choose to guess,", "pos": 1429416}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Madam. I am in a difficulty here. You have told me you will receive no message, and you have forbidden me to return to that subject; but the two subjects are so closely entwined, I find, that unless you will accept this vague caution from one who has now the honour to possess your confidence, though the way to it has been through your displeasure, I must violate the injunction you have laid upon me.", "pos": 1429458}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "You know that you are free to do so, Sir. Do it.", "pos": 1429972}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "His instructions were, that I should inform you that your demeanour towards Miss Dombey is not agreeable to him. That it suggests comparisons to him which are not favourable to himself. That he desires it may be wholly changed; and that if you are in earnest, he is confident it will be; for your continued show of affection will not benefit its object.", "pos": 1430118}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "That is a threat,", "pos": 1430501}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "That is a threat, but not directed against you.", "pos": 1430531}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Please to leave me. Say no more tonight.", "pos": 1431116}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I feel the urgency of this, because it is impossible to say what unforeseen consequences might arise, or how soon, from your being unacquainted with his state of mind. I understand Miss Dombey is concerned, now, at the dismissal of her old servant, which is likely to have been a minor consequence in itself. You don’t blame me for requesting that Miss Dombey might not be present. May I hope so?", "pos": 1431159}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I do not. Please to leave me, Sir.", "pos": 1431576}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I knew that your regard for the young lady, which is very sincere and strong, I am well persuaded, would render it a great unhappiness to you, ever to be a prey to the reflection that you had injured her position and ruined her future hopes,", "pos": 1431613}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "No more tonight. Leave me, if you please.", "pos": 1431893}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I shall be here constantly in my attendance upon him, and in the transaction of business matters. You will allow me to see you again, and to consult what should be done, and learn your wishes? I cannot even decide whether to tell him I have spoken to you yet; or to lead him to suppose that I have deferred doing so, for want of opportunity, or for any other reason. It will be necessary that you should enable me to consult with you very soon.", "pos": 1431937}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "At any time but now,", "pos": 1432421}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You will understand, when I wish to see you, that Miss Dombey is not to be present; and that I seek an interview as one who has the happiness to possess your confidence, and who comes to render you every assistance in his power, and, perhaps, on many occasions, to ward off evil from her?", "pos": 1432458}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 1432906}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am forgiven, and have explained my fault. May I—for Miss Dombey’s sake, and for my own—take your hand before I go?", "pos": 1433032}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "May this man be a liar! For if he has spoken truth, she is lost to me, and I have no hope left!", "pos": 1433639}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "See where he goes!", "pos": 1437932}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I never thought to look at him again, but it’s well I should, perhaps. I see. I see!", "pos": 1438277}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not changed!", "pos": 1438392}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "He changed! What for? What has he suffered? There is change enough for twenty in me. Isn’t that enough?", "pos": 1438456}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "See where he goes! so easy and so trim a-horseback, while we are in the mud.", "pos": 1438584}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "And of it. We are mud, underneath his horse’s feet. What should we be?", "pos": 1438730}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Deary! Alice! Handsome gall Ally! Will you let him go like that, when you can wring money from him? Why, it’s a wickedness, my daughter.", "pos": 1439175}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Haven’t I told you, that I will not have money from him? And don’t you yet believe me? Did I take his sister’s money? Would I touch a penny, if I knew it, that had gone through his white hands—unless it was, indeed, that I could poison it, and send it back to him? Peace, mother, and come away.", "pos": 1439396}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "And him so rich?", "pos": 1439709}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Poor in not being able to pay him any of the harm we owe him. Let him give me that sort of riches, and I’ll take them from him, and use them. Come away. Its no good looking at his horse. Come away, mother!", "pos": 1439770}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Why, where’s my sprightly Rob been, all this time!", "pos": 1440497}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh! why can’t you leave a poor cove alone, Misses Brown, when he’s getting an honest livelihood and conducting himself respectable? What do you come and deprive a cove of his character for, by talking to him in the streets, when he’s taking his master’s horse to a honest stable—a horse you’d go and sell for cats’ and dogs’ meat if you had your way! Why, I thought, that you was dead long ago!", "pos": 1440737}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "This is the way, that he talks to me, who knew him weeks and months together, my deary, and have stood his friend many and many a time among the pigeon-fancying tramps and bird-catchers.", "pos": 1441232}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Let the birds be, will you, Misses Brown? I think a cove had better have to do with lions than them little creeturs, for they’re always flying back in your face when you least expect it. Well, how d’ye do and what do you want?", "pos": 1441471}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Hark how he speaks to an old friend, my deary! But there’s some of his old friends not so patient as me. If I was to tell some that he knows, and has spotted and cheated with, where to find him—", "pos": 1441868}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Will you hold your tongue, Misses Brown? What do you take a pleasure in ruining a cove for? At your time of life too! when you ought to be thinking of a variety of things!", "pos": 1442116}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What a gallant horse!", "pos": 1442421}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Let him alone, will you, Misses Brown? You’re enough to drive a penitent cove mad!", "pos": 1442492}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Why, what hurt do I do him, child?", "pos": 1442613}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Hurt? He’s got a master that would find it out if he was touched with a straw.", "pos": 1442674}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "A good place, Rob, eh? You’re in luck, my child.", "pos": 1443107}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh don’t talk about luck, Misses Brown. If you’d never come, or if you’d go away, then indeed a cove might be considered tolerable lucky. Can’t you go along, Misses Brown, and not foller me! If the young woman’s a friend of yours, why don’t she take you away, instead of letting you make yourself so disgraceful!", "pos": 1443170}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What! Do you deny your old chum! Have you lurked to my house fifty times, and slept sound in a corner when you had no other bed but the paving-stones, and do you talk to me like this! Have I bought and sold with you, and helped you in my way of business, schoolboy, sneak, and what not, and do you tell me to go along? Could I raise a crowd of old company about you to-morrow morning, that would follow you to ruin like copies of your own shadow, and do you turn on me with your bold looks! I’ll go. Come, Alice.", "pos": 1443584}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Stop, Misses Brown! What are you doing of? Don’t put yourself in a passion! Don’t let her go, if you please. I haven’t meant any offence. I said ‘how d’ye do,’ at first, didn’t I? But you wouldn’t answer. How you do? Besides, look here! How can a cove stand talking in the street with his master’s prad a-wanting to be took to be rubbed down, and his master up to every individgle thing that happens! Come along to the stables, and have a glass of something that’s good for you, Misses Brown, can’t you? instead of going on, like that, which is no good to you, nor anybody else. Come along with her, will you be so kind? I’m sure I’m delighted to see her, if it wasn’t for the horse!", "pos": 1444243}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Here’s master—Mr Carker, child! Lord bless him!", "pos": 1445789}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why, I didn’t tell you who he was,", "pos": 1445903}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "We know him by sight. We saw him pass this morning, afore he got off his horse; when you were ready to take it.", "pos": 1445973}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Ay, ay. What’s the matter with her? Won’t she drink?", "pos": 1446201}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Don’t mind her, she’s a strange creetur, if you know’d her, Rob. But Mr Carker—", "pos": 1446520}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Hush!", "pos": 1446614}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Why, he ain’t here!", "pos": 1446790}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I don’t know that,", "pos": 1446829}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Good master?", "pos": 1446975}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "precious sharp.", "pos": 1447049}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Lives out of town, don’t he, lovey?", "pos": 1447067}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "When he’s at home, but we don’t live at home just now.", "pos": 1447125}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Where then?", "pos": 1447198}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Lodgings; up near Mr Dombey’s. Mr Dombey—you and I used to talk about him, sometimes, you know. You used to get me to talk about him. Well, Mr Dombey, he’s had a fall from his horse, and my master has to be up there, more than usual, either with him, or Mrs Dombey, or some of ’em; and so we’ve come to town.", "pos": 1447233}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Are they good friends, lovey?", "pos": 1447815}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Who? He and she? What, Mr and Mrs Dombey? How should I know!", "pos": 1447868}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not them—Master and Mrs Dombey, chick,", "pos": 1447961}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I don’t know. I suppose so. How curious you are, Misses Brown! Least said, soonest mended.", "pos": 1448036}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Why there’s no harm in it! Sprightly Rob, has grown tame since he has been well off! There’s no harm in it.", "pos": 1448166}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "No, there’s no harm in it, I know, but blabbing, if it’s only about the number of buttons on my master’s coat, won’t do. I tell you it won’t do with him. A cove had better drown himself. He says so. I shouldn’t have so much as told you what his name was, if you hadn’t known it. Talk about somebody else.", "pos": 1448342}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Rob, lovey! You were always a pet and favourite of mine. Now, weren’t you? Don’t you know you were?", "pos": 1449005}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, Misses Brown,", "pos": 1449174}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "And you could leave me! You could go away, and grow almost out of knowledge, and never come to tell your poor old friend how fortunate you were, proud lad! Oho, Oho!", "pos": 1449239}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh here’s a dreadful go for a cove that’s got a master wide awake in the neighbourhood! To be howled over like this here!", "pos": 1449463}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Won’t you come and see me, Robby? Oho, won’t you ever come and see me?", "pos": 1449621}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, I tell you! Yes, I will!", "pos": 1449713}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "That’s my own Rob! That’s my lovey! At the old place, Rob?", "pos": 1449767}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1449922}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Soon, Robby dear? and often?", "pos": 1449950}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes. Yes. Yes. I will indeed, upon my soul and body.", "pos": 1450000}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "And then, if he’s true to his word, I’ll never come a-near him though I know where he is, and never breathe a syllable about him! Never! A shilling, dear! or sixpence! For old acquaintance sake. I’m so poor. And my handsome gal she’s my gal, Rob—half starves me.", "pos": 1450070}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "mother! always money! money from the first, and to the last. Do you mind so little what I said but now? Here. Take it!", "pos": 1451039}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Well, John Carker, and what brings you here? I wonder,", "pos": 1453614}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "We had word this morning in the Counting House, that Mr Dombey was doing well,", "pos": 1453819}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are such a meek fellow, but you have grown so, in the course of years—that if any harm came to him, you’d be miserable, I dare swear now.", "pos": 1453921}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I should be truly sorry, James,", "pos": 1454099}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "He would be sorry! He would be truly sorry! This brother of mine! This junior of the place, this slighted piece of lumber, pushed aside with his face to the wall, like a rotten picture, and left so, for Heaven knows how many years he’s all gratitude and respect, and devotion too, he would have me believe!", "pos": 1454153}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I would have you believe nothing, James. Be as just to me as you would to any other man below you. You ask a question, and I answer it.", "pos": 1454568}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And have you nothing, Spaniel, to complain of in him? No proud treatment to resent, no insolence, no foolery of state, no exaction of any sort! What the devil! are you man or mouse?", "pos": 1454727}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "It would be strange if any two persons could be together for so many years, especially as superior and inferior, without each having something to complain of in the other—as he thought, at all events. But apart from my history here—", "pos": 1454958}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "His history here! Why, there it is. The very fact that makes him an extreme case, puts him out of the whole chapter! Well?", "pos": 1455216}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Apart from that, which, as you hint, gives me a reason to be thankful that I alone (happily for all the rest) possess, surely there is no one in the House who would not say and feel at least as much. You do not think that anybody here would be indifferent to a mischance or misfortune happening to the head of the House, or anything than truly sorry for it?", "pos": 1455366}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You have good reason to be bound to him too! Why, don’t you believe that you are kept here, as a cheap example, and a famous instance of the clemency of Dombey and Son, redounding to the credit of the illustrious House?", "pos": 1455726}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "No. I have long believed that I am kept here for more kind and disinterested reasons.", "pos": 1455984}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "But you were going, to recite some Christian precept, I observed.", "pos": 1456103}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Nay, James, though the tie of brotherhood between us has been long broken and thrown away—", "pos": 1456244}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Who broke it, good Sir?", "pos": 1456337}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I, by my misconduct. I do not charge it upon you.", "pos": 1456381}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Oh, you don’t charge it upon me!", "pos": 1456500}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I say, though there is not that tie between us, do not, I entreat, assail me with unnecessary taunts, or misinterpret what I say, or would say. I was only going to suggest to you that it would be a mistake to suppose that it is only you, who have been selected here, above all others, for advancement, confidence and distinction (selected, in the beginning, I know, for your great ability and trustfulness), and who communicate more freely with Mr Dombey than anyone, and stand, it may be said, on equal terms with him, and have been favoured and enriched by him—that it would be a mistake to suppose that it is only you who are tender of his welfare and reputation. There is no one in the House, from yourself down to the lowest, I sincerely believe, who does not participate in that feeling.", "pos": 1456555}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You lie! You’re a hypocrite, John Carker, and you lie.", "pos": 1457351}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "James! What do you mean by these insulting words? Why do you so basely use them to me, unprovoked?", "pos": 1457451}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I tell you, that your hypocrisy and meekness—that all the hypocrisy and meekness of this place—is not worth that to me, and that I see through it as if it were air! There is not a man employed here, standing between myself and the lowest in place (of whom you are very considerate, and with reason, for he is not far off), who wouldn’t be glad at heart to see his master humbled: who does not hate him, secretly: who does not wish him evil rather than good: and who would not turn upon him, if he had the power and boldness. The nearer to his favour, the nearer to his insolence; the closer to him, the farther from him. That’s the creed here!", "pos": 1457613}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I don’t know, who may have abused your ear with such representations; or why you have chosen to try me, rather than another. But that you have been trying me, and tampering with me, I am now sure. You have a different manner and a different aspect from any that I ever saw in you. I will only say to you, once more, you are deceived.", "pos": 1458364}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I know I am. I have told you so.", "pos": 1458700}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Not by me. By your informant, if you have one. If not, by your own thoughts and suspicions.", "pos": 1458755}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I have no suspicions. Mine are certainties. You pusillanimous, abject, cringing dogs! All making the same show, all canting the same story, all whining the same professions, all harbouring the same transparent secret. The faint-hearted, fawning knaves. There’s not one among them, who wouldn’t feign to be so shocked and outraged—! Bah! There’s not one among them, but if he had at once the power, and the wit and daring to use it, would scatter Dombey’s pride and lay it low, as ruthlessly as I rake out these ashes. Without the same queen beckoner too! and there is pride there, not to be forgotten—witness our own acquaintance!", "pos": 1458873}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Time was, when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light.", "pos": 1460569}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama, have I offended you?", "pos": 1472662}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "No.", "pos": 1472752}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I must have done something. Tell me what it is. You have changed your manner to me, dear Mama. I cannot say how instantly I feel the least change; for I love you with my whole heart.", "pos": 1472758}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "As I do you. Ah, Florence, believe me never more than now!", "pos": 1472960}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Why do you go away from me so often, and keep away? And why do you sometimes look so strangely on me, dear Mama? You do so, do you not? Why? Tell me why, that I may know how to please you better; and tell me this shall not be so any more.", "pos": 1473035}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "My Florence, why it is, I cannot tell you. It is neither for me to say, nor you to hear; but that it is, and that it must be, I know. Should I do it if I did not?", "pos": 1473372}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Are we to be estranged, Mama?", "pos": 1473702}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes. Florence! my life! listen to me. I cannot bear to see this grief. Be calmer. You see that I am composed, and is it nothing to me? Not wholly estranged. Partially: and only that, in appearance, Florence, for in my own breast I am still the same to you, and ever will be. But what I do is not done for myself.", "pos": 1473812}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is it for me, Mama?", "pos": 1474386}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It is enough, to know what it is; why, matters little. Dear Florence, it is better—it is necessary—it must be—that our association should be less frequent. The confidence there has been between us must be broken off.", "pos": 1474424}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "When? Oh, Mama, when?", "pos": 1474672}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Now,", "pos": 1474714}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "For all time to come?", "pos": 1474733}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I do not say that. I do not know that. Nor will I say that companionship between us is, at the best, an ill-assorted and unholy union, of which I might have known no good could come. My way here has been through paths that you will never tread, and my way henceforth may lie—God knows—I do not see it—", "pos": 1474773}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama, there is a change in you, in more than what you say to me, which alarms me. Let me stay with you a little.", "pos": 1475705}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "No, no, dearest. I am best left alone now, and I do best to keep apart from you, of all else. Ask me no questions, but believe that what I am when I seem fickle or capricious to you, I am not of my own will, or for myself. Believe, though we are stranger to each other than we have been, that I am unchanged to you within. Forgive me for having ever darkened your dark home—I am a shadow on it, I know well—and let us never speak of this again.", "pos": 1475848}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama, we are not to part?", "pos": 1476309}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "We do this that we may not part. Ask no more. Go, Florence! My love and my remorse go with you!", "pos": 1476356}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Good-night,", "pos": 1477493}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Indeed, was that Miss Dombey, in the corner? Very pretty, but a little delicate and thoughtful in appearance!", "pos": 1481811}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey, you know, I suppose, that I have instructed the housekeeper that there will be some company to dinner here to-morrow.", "pos": 1483508}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I do not dine at home,", "pos": 1483640}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Not a large party, merely some twelve or fourteen. My sister, Major Bagstock, and some others whom you know but slightly.", "pos": 1483679}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I do not dine at home,", "pos": 1483880}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "However doubtful reason I may have, Mrs Dombey, to hold the occasion in very pleasant remembrance just now, there are appearances in these things which must be maintained before the world. If you have no respect for yourself, Mrs Dombey—", "pos": 1483919}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I have none,", "pos": 1484232}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Madam, hear me if you please. I say, if you have no respect for yourself—", "pos": 1484257}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "And I say I have none,", "pos": 1484386}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Tell your sovereign master, Sir, that I will take leave to speak to him on this subject by-and-bye, and that I will speak to him alone. Your daughter is present, Sir. I tell you I will speak to you alone. If you are not mad, heed what I say. You shall!", "pos": 1484960}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I would not stop you now. I would not rise and go away, and save you the utterance of one word, if the room were burning. Mrs Dombey, it may not be inconsistent with my daughter’s improvement to know how very much to be lamented, and how necessary to be corrected, a stubborn disposition is, especially when it is indulged in—unthankfully indulged in, I will add—after the gratification of ambition and interest. Both of which, I believe, had some share in inducing you to occupy your present station at this board. No! I would not rise, and go away, and save you the utterance of one word, if the room were burning. Mrs Dombey,", "pos": 1486842}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "it is not enough that you know what has passed between yourself and me; it is not enough that you can look here, and be reminded of the affronts you have put upon me; it is not enough that you can look here, and think of what you have done, and of the ingenious agony, daily, hourly, constant, you have made me feel in doing it; it is not enough that this day, of all others in the year, is memorable to me for a struggle (well-deserved, but not conceivable by such as you) in which I wish I had died! You add to all this, do you, the last crowning meanness of making her a witness of the depth to which I have fallen; when you know that you have made me sacrifice to her peace, the only gentle feeling and interest of my life, when you know that for her sake, I would now if I could—but I can not, my soul recoils from you too much—submit myself wholly to your will, and be the meekest vassal that you have!", "pos": 1488901}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I understand, Madam, the spirit of opposition that turned your affections in that channel, but they have been met, Mrs Dombey; they have been met, and turned back!", "pos": 1490481}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "The worse for you! Ay! what is the worse for me, is twenty million times the worse for you. Heed that, if you heed nothing else.", "pos": 1490697}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Mrs Dombey, you will not conciliate me, or turn me from any purpose, by this course of conduct.", "pos": 1491167}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It is the only true although it is a faint expression of what is within me. But if I thought it would conciliate you, I would repress it, if it were repressible by any human effort. I will do nothing that you ask.", "pos": 1491339}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I am not accustomed to ask, Mrs Dombey. I direct.", "pos": 1491570}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I will hold no place in your house to-morrow, or on any recurrence of to-morrow. I will be exhibited to no one, as the refractory slave you purchased, such a time. If I kept my marriage day, I would keep it as a day of shame. Self-respect! appearances before the world! what are these to me? You have done all you can to make them nothing to me, and they are nothing.", "pos": 1491637}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker. Mrs Dombey is so forgetful of herself and me in all this, and places me in a position so unsuited to my character, that I must bring this state of matters to a close.", "pos": 1492007}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Release me, then, from the chain by which I am bound. Let me go.", "pos": 1492267}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Madam?", "pos": 1492419}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Loose me. Set me free!", "pos": 1492449}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Madam? Mrs Dombey?", "pos": 1492474}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Tell him, that I wish for a separation between us. That there had better be one. That I recommend it to him. Tell him it may take place on his own terms—his wealth is nothing to me—but that it cannot be too soon.", "pos": 1492510}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Good Heaven, Mrs Dombey! do you imagine it possible that I could ever listen to such a proposition? Do you know who I am, Madam? Do you know what I represent? Did you ever hear of Dombey and Son? People to say that Mr Dombey—Mr Dombey!—was separated from his wife! Common people to talk of Mr Dombey and his domestic affairs! Do you seriously think, Mrs Dombey, that I would permit my name to be banded about in such connexion? Pooh, pooh, Madam! Fie for shame! You’re absurd. No, Mrs Dombey. No, Madam. There is no possibility of separation between you and me, and therefore I the more advise you to be awakened to a sense of duty. And, Carker, as I was about to say to you— —As I was about to say to you. I must beg you, now that matters have come to this, to inform Mrs Dombey, that it is not the rule of my life to allow myself to be thwarted by anybody—anybody, Carker—or to suffer anybody to be paraded as a stronger motive for obedience in those who owe obedience to me than I am my self. The mention that has been made of my daughter, and the use that is made of my daughter, in opposition to me, are unnatural. Whether my daughter is in actual concert with Mrs Dombey, I do not know, and do not care; but after what Mrs Dombey has said today, and my daughter has heard today, I beg you to make known to Mrs Dombey, that if she continues to make this house the scene of contention it has become, I shall consider my daughter responsible in some degree, on that lady’s own avowal, and shall visit her with my severe displeasure. Mrs Dombey has asked ‘whether it is not enough,’ that she had done this and that. You will please to answer no, it is not enough.", "pos": 1492776}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "A moment! permit me! painful as my position is, at the best, and unusually painful in seeming to entertain a different opinion from you. I must ask, had you not better reconsider the question of a separation. I know how incompatible it appears with your high public position, and I know how determined you are when you give Mrs Dombey to understand that nothing but death can ever part you. Nothing else. But when you consider that Mrs Dombey, by living in this house, and making it as you have said, a scene of contention, not only has her part in that contention, but compromises Miss Dombey every day (for I know how determined you are), will you not relieve her from a continual irritation of spirit, and a continual sense of being unjust to another, almost intolerable? Does this not seem like—I do not say it is—sacrificing Mrs Dombey to the preservation of your preeminent and unassailable position?", "pos": 1494876}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Carker, you mistake your position in offering advice to me on such a point, and you mistake me (I am surprised to find) in the character of your advice. I have no more to say.", "pos": 1496094}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Perhaps, you mistook my position, when you honoured me with the negotiations in which I have been engaged here", "pos": 1496366}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Not at all, Sir, not at all. You were employed—", "pos": 1496590}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Being an inferior person, for the humiliation of Mrs Dombey. I forgot. Oh, yes, it was expressly understood! I beg your pardon!", "pos": 1496672}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Don’t come near me! Keep away! Let me go by!", "pos": 1500654}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama!", "pos": 1500714}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Don’t call me by that name! Don’t speak to me! Don’t look at me!—Florence! don’t touch me!", "pos": 1500737}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Where is Mama?", "pos": 1501380}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Gone out to dinner,", "pos": 1501421}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And Papa?", "pos": 1501461}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Mr Dombey is in his own room, Miss Dombey, and the best thing you can do, is to take off your things and go to bed this minute.", "pos": 1501473}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "But what! what was it?", "pos": 1505420}
{"speaker": "Mrs Dombey's maid", "text": "But the inner dressing-room was locked and the key gone.", "pos": 1505493}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh dear, dear Papa!", "pos": 1508668}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "It’s Heart’s Delight! It’s the sweet creetur grow’d a woman! My Heart’s Delight! If you can hail Ned Cuttle with a finger, do it! My Heart’s Delight! For the sake of Wal”r drownded in the briny deep, turn to, and histe up something or another, if able!", "pos": 1514619}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Cheerily. Cheerily! Stand by, my pretty one, stand by! There! You’re better now. Steady’s the word, and steady it is. Keep her so! Drink a little drop o’ this here. There you are! What cheer now, my pretty, what cheer now? What cheer, my pretty? What cheer now? You’ve done her some good, my lad, I believe. Put you back half-an-hour every morning, and about another quarter towards the arternoon, and you’re a watch as can be ekalled by few and excelled by none. What cheer, my lady lass!", "pos": 1515940}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Captain Cuttle! Is it you?", "pos": 1516898}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Yes, yes, my lady lass,", "pos": 1516973}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is Walter’s Uncle here?", "pos": 1517141}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Here, pretty? He ain’t been here this many a long day. He ain’t been heerd on, since he sheered off arter poor Wal”r. But. Though lost to sight, to memory dear, and England, Home, and Beauty!", "pos": 1517183}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Do you live here?", "pos": 1517437}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Yes, my lady lass,", "pos": 1517473}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, Captain Cuttle! Save me! keep me here! Let no one know where I am! I’ll tell you what has happened by-and-by, when I can. I have no one in the world to go to. Do not send me away!", "pos": 1517516}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Send you away, my lady lass! You, my Heart’s Delight! Stay a bit! We’ll put up this here deadlight, and take a double turn on the key!", "pos": 1517769}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lady lass, don’t you say a word to Ed’ard Cuttle, until such times as you finds yourself a riding smooth and easy; which won’t be today, nor yet to-morrow. And as to giving of you up, or reporting where you are, yes verily, and by God’s help, so I won’t, Church catechism, make a note on!", "pos": 1518578}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Steady! Steady! You’re too weak to stand, you see, my pretty, and must lie down here again. There, there! And now, you must take some breakfast, lady lass, and the dog shall have some too. And arter that you shall go aloft to old Sol Gills’s room, and fall asleep there, like a angel.", "pos": 1519513}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well, well! arter turning in, my Heart’s Delight, you’ll get more way upon you. Now, I’ll serve out your allowance, my lad. And you shall keep guard on your mistress aloft.", "pos": 1520863}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Can there be anybody there!", "pos": 1521418}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, my lady lass. Who’d stay there, without making any noise! Keep up a good heart, pretty. It’s only people going by.", "pos": 1521474}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "If there should be someone listening and watching. Someone who saw me come—who followed me, perhaps.", "pos": 1522040}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "It ain’t the young woman, lady lass, is it?", "pos": 1522165}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan? Ah no! Susan has been gone from me a long time.", "pos": 1522255}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Not deserted, I hope? Don’t say that that there young woman’s run, my pretty!", "pos": 1522347}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, no, no! She is one of the truest hearts in the world!", "pos": 1522447}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "So you’re quiet now, are you, brother? There warn’t nobody there, my lady lass, bless you!", "pos": 1522818}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lady lass! you’re as safe here as if you was at the top of St Paul’s Cathedral, with the ladder cast off. Sleep is what you want, afore all other things, and may you be able to show yourself smart with that there balsam for the still small woice of a wounded mind! When there’s anything you want, my Heart’s Delight, as this here humble house or town can offer, pass the word to Ed’ard Cuttle, as’ll stand off and on outside that door, and that there man will wibrate with joy.", "pos": 1524510}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "How de do, Captain Gills?", "pos": 1525534}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "How are, you, my lad?", "pos": 1525685}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Well, I’m pretty well, thank’ee, Captain Gills. You know I’m never quite what I could wish to be, now. I don’t expect that I ever shall be any more. Captain Gills, if I could have the pleasure of a word with you, it’s—it’s rather particular.", "pos": 1525730}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, you see, my lad. I ain’t what you may call exactly free this morning; and therefore if you can clap on a bit, I should take it kindly.", "pos": 1526173}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Certainly, Captain Gills. To clap on, is exactly what I could wish to do. Naturally.", "pos": 1526372}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "If so be, my lad. Do it!", "pos": 1526531}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I beg your pardon, Captain Gills, but you don’t happen to see anything particular in me, do you?", "pos": 1527193}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, my lad. No.", "pos": 1527292}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Because you know. I know I’m wasting away. You needn’t at all mind alluding to that. I—I should like it. Burgess and Co. have altered my measure, I’m in that state of thinness. It’s a gratification to me. I—I’m glad of it. I—I’d a great deal rather go into a decline, if I could. I’m a mere brute you know, grazing upon the surface of the earth, Captain Gills. But I was going to say, Captain Gills. Happening to be this way early this morning—to tell you the truth, I was coming to breakfast with you. As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don’t get any pay, and he’s got nothing on his mind.", "pos": 1527334}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Carry on, my lad!", "pos": 1528373}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Certainly, Captain Gills. Perfectly true! Happening to be this way early this morning (an hour or so ago), and finding the door shut—", "pos": 1528435}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What! were you waiting there, brother?", "pos": 1528588}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Not at all, Captain Gills. I didn’t stop a moment. I thought you were out. But the person said—by the bye, you don’t keep a dog, you, Captain Gills? To be sure, that’s exactly what I said. I knew you didn’t. There is a dog, Captain Gills, connected with—but excuse me. That’s forbidden ground. The person said, that he had heard a dog barking in the shop: which I knew couldn’t be, and I told him so. But he was as positive as if he had seen the dog.", "pos": 1528651}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What person, my lad?", "pos": 1529441}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Why, you see there it is, Captain Gills. It’s not for me to say what may have taken place, or what may not have taken place. Indeed, I don’t know. I get mixed up with all sorts of things that I don’t quite understand, and I think there’s something rather weak in my—in my head, in short. But the person said, as we were walking away, that you knew what, under existing circumstances, might occur—he said ‘might,’ very strongly—and that if you were requested to prepare yourself, you would, no doubt, come prepared.", "pos": 1529486}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Person, my lad", "pos": 1530155}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I don’t know what person, I’m sure, Captain Gills. I haven’t the least idea. But coming to the door, I found him waiting there; and he said was I coming back again, and I said yes; and he said did I know you, and I said, yes, I had the pleasure of your acquaintance—you had given me the pleasure of your acquaintance, after some persuasion; and he said, if that was the case, would I say to you what I have said, about existing circumstances and coming prepared, and as soon as ever I saw you, would I ask you to step round the corner, if it was only for one minute, on most important business, to Mr Brogley’s the Broker’s. Now, I tell you what, Captain Gills—whatever it is, I am convinced it’s very important; and if you like to step round, now, I’ll wait here till you come back.", "pos": 1530194}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "If so be, as you’ll excuse my doing of it, brother.", "pos": 1531702}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, whatever you do, is satisfactory to me.", "pos": 1531828}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills. I hope and trust there’s nothing wrong?", "pos": 1532746}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Thank’ee, my lad, not a bit. Quite contrairy.", "pos": 1532825}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "You have the appearance of being overcome, Captain Gills, observed Mr Toots.", "pos": 1532893}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, my lad, I am took aback. I am.", "pos": 1532972}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Is there anything I can do, Captain Gills? If there is, make use of me.", "pos": 1533034}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No, thank’ee. Nothing. Only I’ll take it as a favour if you’ll part company for the present. I believe, brother, that, after Wal”r, and on a different model, you’re as good a lad as ever stepped.", "pos": 1533285}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Upon my word and honour, Captain Gills, it’s delightful to me to possess your good opinion. Thank’ee.", "pos": 1533530}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And bear a hand and cheer up. What! There’s more than one sweet creetur in the world!", "pos": 1533725}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Not to me, Captain Gills. Not to me, I assure you. The state of my feelings towards Miss Dombey is of that unspeakable description, that my heart is a desert island, and she lives in it alone. I’m getting more used up every day, and I’m proud to be so. If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you’d form some idea of what unrequited affection is. I have been prescribed bark, but I don’t take it, for I don’t wish to have any tone whatever given to my constitution. I’d rather not. This, however, is forbidden ground. Captain Gills, goodbye!", "pos": 1533858}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My pretty, what cheer?", "pos": 1538271}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear friend, is it you?", "pos": 1538338}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What cheer, bright di’mond?", "pos": 1538589}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I have surely slept very long. When did I come here? Yesterday?", "pos": 1538637}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "This here blessed day, my lady lass,", "pos": 1538724}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Has there been no night? Is it still day?", "pos": 1538784}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Getting on for evening now, my pretty. See!", "pos": 1538844}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Better now, my pretty! Cheerily, cheerily, I’ll go down below, and get some dinner ready. Will you come down of your own self, arterwards, pretty, or shall Ed’ard Cuttle come and fetch you?", "pos": 1539830}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lady lass, cheer up, and try to eat a deal. Stand by, my deary! Liver wing it is. Sarse it is. Sassage it is. And potato! The whole row o’ dead lights is up, for’ard, lady lass, and everythink is made snug. Try and pick a bit, my pretty. If Wal”r was here—", "pos": 1543962}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Ah! If I had him for my brother now!", "pos": 1544430}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Don’t! don’t take on, my pretty! awast, to obleege me! He was your nat’ral born friend like, warn’t he, Pet?", "pos": 1544485}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, dear, dear Paul! oh, Walter!", "pos": 1544669}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "The wery planks she walked on, was as high esteemed by Wal”r, as the water brooks is by the hart which never rejices! I see him now, the wery day as he was rated on them Dombey books, a speaking of her with his face a glistening with doo—leastways with his modest sentiments—like a new blowed rose, at dinner. Well, well! If our poor Wal”r was here, my lady lass—or if he could be—for he’s drownded, ain’t he? Yes, yes; drownded, as I was saying, if he could be here he’d beg and pray of you, my precious, to pick a leetle bit, with a look-out for your own sweet health. Whereby, hold your own, my lady lass, as if it was for Wal”r’s sake, and lay your pretty head to the wind. Wal”r was a trim lad, warn’t he, precious? and a brave lad, and a good lad? And he’s drownded, Beauty, ain’t he? He was older than you, my lady lass, but you was like two children together, at first; wam’t you?", "pos": 1544704}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1546164}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And Wal”r’s drownded. Ain’t he?", "pos": 1546171}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Poor Wal”r. Ay, ay! Drownded. Ain’t he?", "pos": 1546785}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Captain Cuttle. I don’t want this money, indeed. I have not spent any of it. I have money of my own.", "pos": 1552968}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lady lass, take care on it for me, will you be so good, till such time as I ask ye for it?", "pos": 1553243}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "May I put it back in its usual place, and keep it there?", "pos": 1553417}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay, ay, put it anywheres, my lady lass, so long as you know where to find it again. It ain’t o’ no use to me. I wonder I haven’t chucked it away afore now.", "pos": 1553565}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Good-night, dear heart. Poor Wal”r!", "pos": 1554828}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Poor, poor Walter!", "pos": 1555254}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Drownded, ain’t he? Good-night, my lady lass!", "pos": 1555292}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "God bless you, dear, kind friend! Is anything the matter, dear Captain Cuttle? Have you anything to tell me?", "pos": 1555440}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "To tell you, lady lass! No, no; what should I have to tell you, pretty! You don’t expect as I’ve got anything good to tell you, sure?", "pos": 1555644}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No!", "pos": 1555834}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "No. Poor Wal”r! My Wal”r, as I used to call you! Old Sol Gills’s nevy! Welcome to all as knowed you, as the flowers in May! Where are you got to, brave boy? Drownded, ain’t he? Drownded, ain’t he, pretty?", "pos": 1555923}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Yes, my lady lass. Are you all right, di’mond?", "pos": 1559515}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1559641}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Poor Wal”r! Drownded, ain’t he?", "pos": 1559788}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "You never was at sea, my own?", "pos": 1561059}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No,", "pos": 1561091}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay, it’s a almighty element. There’s wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark, as you can’t see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end, evermore, amen, and when found making a note of. Them’s the times, my beauty, when a man may say to his messmate (previously a overhauling of the wollume), ‘A stiff nor’wester’s blowing, Bill; hark, don’t you hear it roar now! Lord help ’em, how I pitys all unhappy folks ashore now!’ A stiff nor’wester’s blowing, Bill; hark, don’t you hear it roar now! Lord help ’em, how I pitys all unhappy folks ashore now! Stand by!", "pos": 1561115}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Were you ever in a dreadful storm?", "pos": 1562047}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why ay, my lady lass, I’ve seen my share of bad weather, and I’ve had my share of knocking about; but—but it ain’t of myself as I was a meaning to speak. Our dear boy. Wal”r, darling, as was drownded.", "pos": 1562100}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Your face is changed. You are altered in a moment. What is it? Dear Captain Cuttle, it turns me cold to see you!", "pos": 1562519}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What! Lady lass, don’t be took aback. No, no! All’s well, all’s well, my dear. As I was a saying—Wal”r—he’s—he’s drownded. Ain’t he? There’s perils and dangers on the deep, my beauty, and over many a brave ship, and many and many a bould heart, the secret waters has closed up, and never told no tales. But there’s escapes upon the deep, too, and sometimes one man out of a score,—ah! maybe out of a hundred, pretty,—has been saved by the mercy of God, and come home after being given over for dead, and told of all hands lost. I—I know a story, Heart’s Delight, o’ this natur, as was told to me once; and being on this here tack, and you and me sitting alone by the fire, maybe you’d like to hear me tell it. Would you, deary? There’s nothing there, my beauty. Don’t look there.", "pos": 1562652}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1563934}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "The story was about a ship, my lady lass, as sailed out of the Port of London, with a fair wind and in fair weather, bound for—don’t be took aback, my lady lass, she was only out’ard bound, pretty, only out’ard bound! Shall I go on, Beauty?", "pos": 1564213}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, yes, pray!", "pos": 1564640}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "That there unfort’nate ship met with such foul weather, out at sea, as don’t blow once in twenty year, my darling. There was hurricanes ashore as tore up forests and blowed down towns, and there was gales at sea in them latitudes, as not the stoutest wessel ever launched could live in. Day arter day that there unfort’nate ship behaved noble, I’m told, and did her duty brave, my pretty, but at one blow a’most her bulwarks was stove in, her masts and rudder carved away, her best man swept overboard, and she left to the mercy of the storm as had no mercy but blowed harder and harder yet, while the waves dashed over her, and beat her in, and every time they come a thundering at her, broke her like a shell. Every black spot in every mountain of water that rolled away was a bit o’ the ship’s life or a living man, and so she went to pieces, Beauty, and no grass will never grow upon the graves of them as manned that ship.", "pos": 1564784}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "They were not all lost! Some were saved!—Was one?", "pos": 1565714}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Aboard o’ that there unfort’nate wessel, was a lad, a gallant lad—as I’ve heerd tell—that had loved, when he was a boy, to read and talk about brave actions in shipwrecks—I’ve heerd him! I’ve heerd him!—and he remembered of ’em in his hour of need; for when the stoutest and oldest hands was hove down, he was firm and cheery. It warn’t the want of objects to like and love ashore that gave him courage, it was his nat’ral mind. I’ve seen it in his face, when he was no more than a child—ay, many a time!—and when I thought it nothing but his good looks, bless him!", "pos": 1565784}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And was he saved! Was he saved!", "pos": 1566457}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "That brave lad, look at me, pretty! Don’t look round—", "pos": 1566509}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1566622}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Because there’s nothing there, my deary. Don’t be took aback, pretty creetur! Don’t, for the sake of Wal”r, as was dear to all on us! That there lad, arter working with the best, and standing by the faint-hearted, and never making no complaint nor sign of fear, and keeping up a spirit in all hands that made ’em honour him as if he’d been a admiral—that lad, along with the second-mate and one seaman, was left, of all the beatin’ hearts that went aboard that ship, the only living creeturs—lashed to a fragment of the wreck, and driftin’ on the stormy sea.", "pos": 1566633}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Were they saved?", "pos": 1567234}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Days and nights they drifted on them endless waters, until at last—No! Don’t look that way, pretty!—a sail bore down upon ’em, and they was, by the Lord’s mercy, took aboard: two living and one dead.", "pos": 1567269}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Which of them was dead?", "pos": 1567491}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Not the lad I speak on,", "pos": 1567533}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Thank God! oh thank God!", "pos": 1567577}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Amen! Don’t be took aback! A minute more, my lady lass! with a good heart!—aboard that ship, they went a long voyage, right away across the chart (for there warn’t no touching nowhere), and on that voyage the seaman as was picked up with him died. But he was spared, and— Was spared,", "pos": 1567604}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "and—?", "pos": 1568233}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And come home in that ship, and—don’t be frightened, pretty—and landed; and one morning come cautiously to his own door to take a obserwation, knowing that his friends would think him drownded, when he sheered off at the unexpected—", "pos": 1568241}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "At the unexpected barking of a dog?", "pos": 1568533}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Yes. Steady, darling! courage! Don’t look round yet. See there! upon the wall!", "pos": 1568596}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r, my lad, here is a little bit of property as I should wish to make over, jintly!", "pos": 1569874}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Going, Walter!", "pos": 1573440}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Where?", "pos": 1573472}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "He slings his hammock for the present, lady lass, round at Brogley’s. Within hail, Heart’s Delight.", "pos": 1573481}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am the cause of your going away, Walter. There is a houseless sister in your place.", "pos": 1573606}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Dear Miss Dombey, if it is not too bold to call you so! —If anything could make me happier in being allowed to see and speak to you, would it not be the discovery that I had any means on earth of doing you a moment’s service! Where would I not go, what would I not do, for your sake? You are so changed,", "pos": 1573711}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I changed!", "pos": 1574136}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "—To me, changed to me. I left you such a child, and find you—oh! something so different—", "pos": 1574166}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "But your sister, Walter. You have not forgotten what we promised to each other, when we parted?", "pos": 1574310}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Forgotten! I would! Heaven knows I would!", "pos": 1574408}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh, Walter. Dear brother! Show me some way through the world—some humble path that I may take alone, and labour in, and sometimes think of you as one who will protect and care for me as for a sister! Oh, help me, Walter, for I need help so much!", "pos": 1574720}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Miss Dombey! Florence! I would die to help you. But your friends are proud and rich. Your father—", "pos": 1575018}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, no! Walter!", "pos": 1575118}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "There, precious! Awast, awast, my eyes! Wal”r, dear lad, sheer off for tonight, and leave the pretty one to me!", "pos": 1575976}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Drownded. Ain’t he, pretty?", "pos": 1576936}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Captain Cuttle, nothing at all of Uncle Sol, in all that time!", "pos": 1580481}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Nothing at all, my lad,", "pos": 1580705}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Gone in search of me, dear, kind old man, yet never write to you! But why not? He says, in effect, in this packet that you gave me, that if you never hear from him before opening it, you may believe him dead. Heaven forbid! But you would have heard of him, even if he were dead! Someone would have written, surely, by his desire, if he could not; and have said, ‘on such a day, there died in my house,’ or ‘under my care,’ or so forth, ‘Mr Solomon Gills of London, who left this last remembrance and this last request to you’.", "pos": 1580770}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Well said, my lad; wery well said.", "pos": 1581601}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I have been thinking of this, or, at least,", "pos": 1581638}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh Di, you bad, forgetful dog! Dear Mr Toots, I am so rejoiced to see you!", "pos": 1598582}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Thankee. I am pretty well, I’m much obliged to you, Miss Dombey. I hope all the family are the same. Captain Gills and Lieutenant Walters have mentioned, Miss Dombey, that I can do you some service. If I could by any means wash out the remembrance of that day at Brighton, when I conducted myself—much more like a Parricide than a person of independent property. I should sink into the silent tomb with a gleam of joy.", "pos": 1598659}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Pray, Mr Toots, do not wish me to forget anything in our acquaintance. I never can, believe me. You have been far too kind and good to me always.", "pos": 1599386}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey, your consideration for my feelings is a part of your angelic character. Thank you a thousand times. It’s of no consequence at all.", "pos": 1599551}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "What we thought of asking you, is, whether you remember where Susan, whom you were so kind as to accompany to the coach-office when she left me, is to be found.", "pos": 1599718}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Why I do not certainly, Miss Dombey, remember the exact name of the place that was on the coach; and I do recollect that she said she was not going to stop there, but was going farther on. But, Miss Dombey, if your object is to find her, and to have her here, myself and the Chicken will produce her with every dispatch that devotion on my part, and great intelligence on the Chicken’s, can ensure. Miss Dombey. Good-bye! Allow me to take the liberty of saying, that your misfortunes make me perfectly wretched, and that you may trust me, next to Captain Gills himself. I am quite aware, Miss Dombey, of my own deficiencies—they’re not of the least consequence, thank you—but I am entirely to be relied upon, I do assure you, Miss Dombey. Captain Gills, to tell you the truth, I am not in a frame of mind at the present moment, in which I could see Lieutenant Walters with that entirely friendly feeling towards him that I should wish to harbour in my breast. We cannot always command our feelings, Captain Gills, and I should take it as a particular favour if you’d let me out at the private door.", "pos": 1599898}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Brother, you shall shape your own course. Wotever course you take, is plain and seamanlike, I’m wery sure.", "pos": 1602012}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, you’re extremely kind. Your good opinion is a consolation to me. There is one thing, that I hope you’ll bear in mind, Captain Gills, and that I should wish Lieutenant Walters to be made acquainted with. I have quite come into my property now, you know, and—and I don’t know what to do with it. If I could be at all useful in a pecuniary point of view, I should glide into the silent tomb with ease and smoothness.", "pos": 1602145}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "I think he’s down below, my lady lass, in a trice.", "pos": 1606587}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Captain Cuttle tells me, Miss Dombey. You are not so well today. You look distressed. You have been weeping.", "pos": 1607212}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter. I am not quite well, and I have been weeping. I want to speak to you.", "pos": 1607517}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I have always worn it round my neck! If I had gone down in the deep, it would have been with me at the bottom of the sea.", "pos": 1608424}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And you will wear it still, Walter, for my old sake?", "pos": 1608548}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Until I die!", "pos": 1608603}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am glad of that. I shall be always glad to think so, Walter. Do you recollect that a thought of this change seemed to come into our minds at the same time that evening, when we were talking together?", "pos": 1608753}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No!", "pos": 1608957}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, Walter. I had been the means of injuring your hopes and prospects even then. I feared to think so, then, but I know it now. If you were able, then, in your generosity, to hide from me that you knew it too, you cannot do so now, although you try as generously as before. You do. I thank you for it, Walter, deeply, truly; but you cannot succeed. You have suffered too much in your own hardships, and in those of your dearest relation, quite to overlook the innocent cause of all the peril and affliction that has befallen you. You cannot quite forget me in that character, and we can be brother and sister no longer. But, dear Walter, do not think that I complain of you in this. I might have known it—ought to have known it—but forgot it in my joy. All I hope is that you may think of me less irksomely when this feeling is no more a secret one; and all I ask is, Walter, in the name of the poor child who was your sister once, that you will not struggle with yourself, and pain yourself, for my sake, now that I know all!", "pos": 1608997}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Oh, Miss Dombey, is it possible that while I have been suffering so much, in striving with my sense of what is due to you, and must be rendered to you, I have made you suffer what your words disclose to me? Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten. Again to see you look, and hear you speak, as you did on that night when we parted, is happiness to me that there are no words to utter; and to be loved and trusted as your brother, is the next gift I could receive and prize!", "pos": 1610245}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter, what is that which is due to me, and must be rendered to me, at the sacrifice of all this?", "pos": 1611036}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Respect. Reverence. I have not a brother’s right. I have not a brother’s claim. I left a child. I find a woman. I owe it to a heart so trusting, pure, and good, even to tear myself from it, though I rend my own. How dare I say it is my sister’s! If you had been happy; surrounded as you should be by loving and admiring friends, and by all that makes the station you were born to enviable, and if you had called me brother, then, in your affectionate remembrance of the past, I could have answered to the name from my distant place, with no inward assurance that I wronged your spotless truth by doing so. But here—and now!", "pos": 1611206}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh thank you, thank you, Walter! Forgive my having wronged you so much. I had no one to advise me. I am quite alone.", "pos": 1612247}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Florence! If I had been prosperous; if I had any means or hope of being one day able to restore you to a station near your own; I would have told you that there was one name you might bestow upon—me—a right above all others, to protect and cherish you—that I was worthy of in nothing but the love and honour that I bore you, and in my whole heart being yours. I would have told you that it was the only claim that you could give me to defend and guard you, which I dare accept and dare assert; but that if I had that right, I would regard it as a trust so precious and so priceless, that the undivided truth and fervour of my life would poorly acknowledge its worth. Dear Florence! Dearest Florence! whom I called so in my thoughts before I could consider how presumptuous and wild it was. One last time let me call you by your own dear name, and touch this gentle hand in token of your sisterly forgetfulness of what I have said.", "pos": 1612366}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, Walter, I cannot forget it. I would not forget it, for the world. Are you—are you very poor?", "pos": 1613824}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "I am but a wanderer, making voyages to live, across the sea. That is my calling now.", "pos": 1613923}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Are you soon going away again, Walter?", "pos": 1614025}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Very soon.", "pos": 1614066}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world’s end without fear. I can give up nothing for you—I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.", "pos": 1614160}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay! lady lass!", "pos": 1615662}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Captain, I want to tell you something, if you please.", "pos": 1615871}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What! Heart’s Delight! Is it that?", "pos": 1616125}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 1616200}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Wal”r! Husband! THAT?", "pos": 1616231}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 1616320}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What, Wal”r my lad! So there ain’t NO other character, ain’t there? Ed’ard Cuttle, my lad, you never shaped a better course in your life, than when you made that there little property over, jintly!", "pos": 1616590}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul! your wife! that upstart woman! Is it possible that what I hear confusedly, is true, and that this is her return for your unparalleled devotion to her; extending, I am sure, even to the sacrifice of your own relations, to her caprices and haughtiness? My poor brother!", "pos": 1617782}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I thank you, Louisa, for this mark of your affection; but desire that our conversation may refer to any other subject. When I bewail my fate, Louisa, or express myself as being in want of consolation, you can offer it, if you will have the goodness.", "pos": 1618405}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My dear Paul. I know your great spirit, and will say no more upon a theme so painful and revolting; but pray let me ask you—though I dread to hear something that will shock and distress me—that unfortunate child Florence—", "pos": 1618668}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Louisa! silence! Not another word of this!", "pos": 1619050}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "An unusually cold spring,", "pos": 1622056}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme, Sir. Joseph Bagstock is a bad hand at a counterfeit. If you want to hold your friends off, Dombey, and to give them the cold shoulder, J. B. is not the man for your purpose. Joe is rough and tough, Sir; blunt, Sir, blunt, is Joe. His Royal Highness the late Duke of York did me the honour to say, deservedly or undeservedly—never mind that—‘If there is a man in the service on whom I can depend for coming to the point, that man is Joe—Joe Bagstock.’ Now, Dombey. I am a man of the world. Our friend Feenix—if I may presume to—", "pos": 1622121}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Honoured, I am sure,", "pos": 1622763}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "—is, also a man of the world. Dombey, you are a man of the world. Now, when three men of the world meet together, and are friends—as I believe—", "pos": 1622806}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "I am sure, most friendly.", "pos": 1623032}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "—and are friends. Old Joe’s opinion is (I may be wrong), that the opinion of the world on any particular subject, is very easily got at.", "pos": 1623082}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Undoubtedly. In point of fact, it’s quite a self-evident sort of thing. I am extremely anxious, Major, that my friend Dombey should hear me express my very great astonishment and regret, that my lovely and accomplished relative, who was possessed of every qualification to make a man happy, should have so far forgotten what was due to—in point of fact, to the world—as to commit herself in such a very extraordinary manner. I have been in a devilish state of depression ever since; and said indeed to Long Saxby last night—man of six foot ten, with whom my friend Dombey is probably acquainted—that it had upset me in a confounded way, and made me bilious. It induces a man to reflect, this kind of fatal catastrophe, that events do occur in quite a providential manner; for if my Aunt had been living at the time, I think the effect upon a devilish lively woman like herself, would have been prostration, and that she would have fallen, in point of fact, a victim.", "pos": 1623242}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Now, Dombey!—", "pos": 1624255}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "I beg your pardon. Allow me another word. My friend Dombey will permit me to say, that if any circumstance could have added to the most infernal state of pain in which I find myself on this occasion, it would be the natural amazement of the world at my lovely and accomplished relative (as I must still beg leave to call her) being supposed to have so committed herself with a person—man with white teeth, in point of fact—of very inferior station to her husband. But while I must, rather peremptorily, request my friend Dombey not to criminate my lovely and accomplished relative until her criminality is perfectly established, I beg to assure my friend Dombey that the family I represent, and which is now almost extinct (devilish sad reflection for a man), will interpose no obstacle in his way, and will be happy to assent to any honourable course of proceeding, with a view to the future, that he may point out. I trust my friend Dombey will give me credit for the intentions by which I am animated in this very melancholy affair, and—a—in point of fact, I am not aware that I need trouble my friend Dombey with any further observations.", "pos": 1624329}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Now, Dombey, our friend Feenix having, with an amount of eloquence that Old Joe B. has never heard surpassed—no, by the Lord, Sir! never! stated the case as regards the lady, I shall presume upon our friendship, Dombey, to offer a word on another aspect of it. Sir, the world in these things has opinions, which must be satisfied.", "pos": 1625559}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I know it,", "pos": 1626025}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Of course you know it, Dombey. Damme, Sir, I know you know it. A man of your calibre is not likely to be ignorant of it.", "pos": 1626057}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I hope not,", "pos": 1626198}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey! you will guess the rest. I speak out—prematurely, perhaps—because the Bagstock breed have always spoke out. Little, Sir, have they ever got by doing it; but it’s in the Bagstock blood. A shot is to be taken at this man. You have J. B. at your elbow. He claims the name of friend. God bless you!", "pos": 1626231}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Major. I am obliged. I shall put myself in your hands when the time comes. The time not being come, I have forborne to speak to you.", "pos": 1626554}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Where is the fellow, Dombey?", "pos": 1626710}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I don’t know.", "pos": 1626809}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Any intelligence of him?", "pos": 1626825}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1626868}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Dombey, I am rejoiced to hear it. I congratulate you.", "pos": 1626875}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You will excuse—even you, Major, my entering into any further detail at present. The intelligence is of a singular kind, and singularly obtained. It may turn out to be valueless; it may turn out to be true; I cannot say at present. My explanation must stop here.", "pos": 1626949}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Well, he’s pretty much as usual.", "pos": 1628277}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Externally. But what he feels within!", "pos": 1628353}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Ah! Perhaps. I suppose so. to tell you my mind, Lucretia, I think it’s a good riddance. I don’t want any of your brazen faces here, myself!", "pos": 1628497}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Brazen indeed! Well may you say brazen, Mrs Pipchin! To leave him! Such a noble figure of a man!", "pos": 1628888}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "I don’t know about noble, I’m sure. But I know this—that when people meet with trials, they must bear ’em. Hoity, toity! I have had enough to bear myself, in my time! What a fuss there is! She’s gone, and well got rid of. Nobody wants her back, I should think!", "pos": 1629039}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Pretty well, Towlinson, I thank you. I beg you’ll have the goodness, when you happen to see me here, not to mention it. My visits are merely to Mrs Pipchin. Shocking circumstances occur, Towlinson. I hope, Towlinson, that what has happened here, will be a warning to you, Towlinson.", "pos": 1629624}
{"speaker": "Perch", "text": "Sir. Madam, why do you look so pale?", "pos": 1634382}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, Perch!", "pos": 1634498}
{"speaker": "Mrs Perch", "text": "which, is what these wretches in the form of woman have to answer for, Mrs P. It ain’t the harm they do themselves so much as what they reflect upon us, Ma’am; and I see it in Perch’s eye.", "pos": 1634941}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey's servants", "text": "talk it over", "pos": 1635319}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "You may give him up, mother. He’ll not come here.", "pos": 1637484}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Death give him up! He will come here.", "pos": 1637536}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "We shall see,", "pos": 1637615}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "We shall see him,", "pos": 1637643}
{"speaker": "the daughter", "text": "And doomsday,", "pos": 1637684}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "You think I’m in my second childhood, I know!", "pos": 1637719}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "That’s the respect and duty that I get from my own gal, but I’m wiser than you take me for. He’ll come. T’other day when I touched his coat in the street, he looked round as if I was a toad. But Lord, to see him when I said their names, and asked him if he’d like to find out where they was!", "pos": 1637790}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Was it so angry?", "pos": 1638084}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Angry? ask if it was bloody. That’s more like the word. Angry? Ha, ha! To call that only angry! I might as well call your face only angry, when you think or talk about ’em. Hark! I hear a step coming. It’s not the tread of anyone that lives about here, or comes this way often. We don’t walk like that. We should grow proud on such neighbours! Do you hear him?", "pos": 1638155}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I believe you are right, mother. Peace! open the door.", "pos": 1638832}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "It’s a poor place for a great gentleman like your worship. I told you so, but there’s no harm in it.", "pos": 1639159}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Who is that?", "pos": 1639311}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "That’s my handsome daughter. Your worship won’t mind her. She knows all about it.", "pos": 1639369}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Woman. I believe that I am weak and forgetful of my station in coming here, but you know why I come, and what you offered when you stopped me in the street the other day. What is it that you have to tell me concerning what I want to know; and how does it happen that I can find voluntary intelligence in a hovel like this, when I have exerted my power and means to obtain it in vain? I do not think, that you are so audacious as to mean to trifle with me, or endeavour to impose upon me. But if you have that purpose, you had better stop on the threshold of your scheme. My humour is not a trifling one, and my acknowledgment will be severe.", "pos": 1639886}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Oh a proud, hard gentleman! oh hard, hard, hard! But your worship shall see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears; not with ours—and if your worship’s put upon their track, you won’t mind paying something for it, will you, honourable deary?", "pos": 1640854}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Money, will bring about unlikely things, I know. It may turn even means as unexpected and unpromising as these, to account. Yes. For any reliable information I receive, I will pay. But I must have the information first, and judge for myself of its value.", "pos": 1641184}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Do you know nothing more powerful than money?", "pos": 1641513}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Not here, I should imagine,", "pos": 1641628}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "You should know of something that is more powerful elsewhere, as I judge. Do you know nothing of a woman’s anger?", "pos": 1641674}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "You have a saucy tongue, Jade,", "pos": 1641806}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Not usually. I speak to you now, that you may understand us better, and rely more on us. A woman’s anger is pretty much the same here, as in your fine house. I am angry. I have been so, many years. I have as good cause for my anger as you have for yours, and its object is the same man. Yes. Wide as the distance may seem between us, it is so. How it is so, is no matter; that is my story, and I keep my story to myself. I would bring you and him together, because I have a rage against him. My mother there, is avaricious and poor; and she would sell any tidings she could glean, or anything, or anybody, for money. It is fair enough, perhaps, that you should pay her some, if she can help you to what you want to know. But that is not my motive. I have told you what mine is, and it would be as strong and all-sufficient with me if you haggled and bargained with her for a sixpence. I have done. My saucy tongue says no more, if you wait here till sunrise tomorrow.", "pos": 1641855}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Go on—what do you know? Oh, not so fast, your worship! we must wait for someone. It’s to be got from someone else—wormed out—screwed and twisted from him.", "pos": 1643282}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1643467}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Patience. Patience. I’ll get at it. I know I can! If he was to hold it back from me. I’d tear it out of him!", "pos": 1643503}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Do you tell me, woman, that there is another person expected here?", "pos": 1643909}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 1644077}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "From whom you are to exact the intelligence that is to be useful to me?", "pos": 1644143}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1644217}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "A stranger?", "pos": 1644259}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Chut! What signifies! Well, well; no. No stranger to your worship. But he won’t see you. He’d be afraid of you, and wouldn’t talk. You’ll stand behind that door, and judge him for yourself. We don’t ask to be believed on trust What! Your worship doubts the room behind the door? Oh the suspicion of you rich gentlefolks! Look at it, then.", "pos": 1644273}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "How long, before this person comes?", "pos": 1644988}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not long. Would your worship sit down for a few odd minutes?", "pos": 1645038}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Here he is! And here’s my bonny boy, at last!—oho, oho! You’re like my own son, Robby!", "pos": 1645939}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh! Misses Brown! Don’t! Can’t you be fond of a cove without squeedging and throttling of him? Take care of the birdcage in my hand, will you?", "pos": 1646259}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Thinks of a birdcage, afore me! Me that feels more than a mother for him!", "pos": 1646432}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, I’m sure I’m very much obliged to you, Misses Brown, but you’re so jealous of a cove. I’m very fond of you myself, and all that, of course; but I don’t smother you, do I, Misses Brown? As if that was a crime! Why, look’ee here! Do you know who this belongs to?", "pos": 1646559}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "To Master, dear?", "pos": 1647048}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Ah! It’s our parrot, this is.", "pos": 1647099}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Mr Carker’s parrot, Rob?", "pos": 1647252}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Will you hold your tongue, Misses Brown? What do you go naming names for? I’m blest, if she ain’t enough to make a cove run wild!", "pos": 1647279}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What! Do you snub me, thankless boy!", "pos": 1647524}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Good gracious, Misses Brown, no! Was there ever such a—! Don’t I dote upon you, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1647606}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Do you, sweet Rob? Do you truly, chickabiddy?", "pos": 1647750}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "what a thing it is to be perfectly pitched into with affection like this here. I wish she was—How have you been, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1648038}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Ah! Not here since this night week!", "pos": 1648167}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Good gracious, Misses Brown. I said tonight’s a week, that I’d come tonight, didn’t I? And here I am. How you do go on! I wish you’d be a little rational, Misses Brown. I’m hoarse with saying things in my defence, and my very face is shiny with being hugged!", "pos": 1648268}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Drink a little drop to comfort you, my Robin,", "pos": 1648635}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Thank’ee, Misses Brown. Here’s your health. And long may you—et ceterer. and wishing her the same and many of ’em! Well, I say, Misses Brown! To go on a little rational now. You’re a judge of birds, and up to their ways, as I know to my cost.", "pos": 1648759}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Cost!", "pos": 1649387}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Satisfaction, I mean. How you do take up a cove, Misses Brown! You’ve put it all out of my head again.", "pos": 1649415}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Judge of birds, Robby,", "pos": 1649544}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Ah! Well, I’ve got to take care of this parrot—certain things being sold, and a certain establishment broke up—and as I don’t want no notice took at present, I wish you’d attend to her for a week or so, and give her board and lodging, will you? If I must come backwards and forwards. I may as well have something to come for.", "pos": 1649594}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Something to come for?", "pos": 1649984}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Besides you, I mean, Misses Brown. Not that I want any inducement but yourself, Misses Brown, I’m sure. Don’t begin again, for goodness’ sake.", "pos": 1650033}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "He don’t care for me! He don’t care for me, as I care for him! But I’ll take care of his bird.", "pos": 1650205}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Take good care of it too, you know, Mrs Brown. If you was so much as to stroke its feathers once the wrong way, I believe it would be found out.", "pos": 1650350}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Ah, so sharp as that, Rob?", "pos": 1650527}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Sharp, Misses Brown! But this is not to be talked about.", "pos": 1650581}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Out of place now, Robby?", "pos": 1651111}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Never you mind, Misses Brown,", "pos": 1651138}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Board wages, perhaps, Rob?", "pos": 1651201}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Pretty Polly!", "pos": 1651246}
{"speaker": "the old woman", "text": "I wonder Master didn’t take you with him, Rob. Robby, my child.", "pos": 1651529}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, Misses Brown,", "pos": 1652001}
{"speaker": "the old woman", "text": "I say I wonder Master didn’t take you with him, dear.", "pos": 1652045}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Never you mind, Misses Brown. Misses Brown! let go, will you? What are you doing of? Help, young woman! Misses Brow—Brow—!", "pos": 1652101}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Well done, mother. Tear him to pieces!", "pos": 1653010}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "What, young woman! are you against me too? What have I been and done? What am I to be tore to pieces for, I should like to know? Why do you take and choke a cove who has never done you any harm, neither of you? Call yourselves females, too! I’m surprised at you! Where’s your feminine tenderness?", "pos": 1653051}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "You thankless dog! You impudent insulting dog!", "pos": 1653443}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "What have I been and done to go and give you offence, Misses Brown? You was very much attached to me a minute ago.", "pos": 1653512}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "To cut me off with his short answers and his sulky words. Me! Because I happen to be curious to have a little bit of gossip about Master and the lady, to dare to play at fast and loose with me! But I’ll talk to you no more, my lad. Now go!", "pos": 1653657}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’m sure, Misses Brown. I never insiniwated that I wished to go. Don’t talk like that, Misses Brown, if you please.", "pos": 1653921}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "I won’t talk at all. Not another word with him shall pass my lips. He’s an ungrateful hound. I cast him off. Now let him go! And I’ll slip those after him that shall talk too much; that won’t be shook away; that’ll hang to him like leeches, and slink arter him like foxes. What! He knows ’em. He knows his old games and his old ways. If he’s forgotten ’em, they’ll soon remind him. Now let him go, and see how he’ll do Master’s business, and keep Master’s secrets, with such company always following him up and down. Ha, ha, ha! He’ll find ’em a different sort from you and me, Ally; Close as he is with you and me. Now let him go, now let him go!", "pos": 1654070}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Misses Brown. I’m sure you wouldn’t injure a cove, on second thoughts, and in cold blood, would you?", "pos": 1655083}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Don’t talk to me. Now let him go, now let him go!", "pos": 1655236}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Misses Brown. I didn’t mean to—Oh, what a thing it is for a cove to get into such a line as this!—I was only careful of talking, Misses Brown, because I always am, on account of his being up to everything; but I might have known it wouldn’t have gone any further. I’m sure I’m quite agreeable, for any little bit of gossip, Misses Brown. Don’t go on like this, if you please. Oh, couldn’t you have the goodness to put in a word for a miserable cove, here?", "pos": 1655344}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Come, mother, you hear what he says, try him once more, and if you fall out with him again, ruin him, if you like, and have done with him.", "pos": 1655917}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "And how’s Master, deary dear?", "pos": 1656639}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Hush! If you’d be so good, Misses Brown, as to speak a little lower. Why, he’s pretty well, thank’ee, I suppose.", "pos": 1656756}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "You’re not out of place, Robby?", "pos": 1656887}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why, I’m not exactly out of place, nor in. I—I’m still in pay, Misses Brown.", "pos": 1656958}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "And nothing to do, Rob?", "pos": 1657053}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Nothing particular to do just now, Misses Brown, but to—keep my eyes open,", "pos": 1657079}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Master abroad, Rob?", "pos": 1657205}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh, for goodness’ sake, Misses Brown, couldn’t you gossip with a cove about anything else? Ye-es, Misses Brown, I believe he’s abroad. What’s she staring at?", "pos": 1657227}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Don’t mind her, lad. It’s her way—her way. Tell me, Rob. Did you ever see the lady, deary?", "pos": 1657627}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh, Misses Brown, what lady?", "pos": 1657791}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What lady? The lady; Mrs Dombey.", "pos": 1657875}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Yes, I believe I see her once,", "pos": 1657926}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "The night she went away, Robby, eh? Aha! I know it was that night.", "pos": 1657972}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, if you know it was that night, you know, Misses Brown, it’s no use putting pinchers into a cove to make him say so.", "pos": 1658119}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Where did they go that night, Rob? Straight away? How did they go? Where did you see her? Did she laugh? Did she cry? Tell me all about it. Come! Begin! I want to be told all about it. What, Rob, boy! You and me can keep a secret together, eh? We’ve done so before now. Where did they go first, Rob? Are you dumb?", "pos": 1658257}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Lord, Misses Brown, no! You expect a cove to be a flash of lightning. I wish I was the electric fluency. I’d have a shock at somebody, that would settle their business.", "pos": 1658828}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What do you say?", "pos": 1659034}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I’m wishing my love to you, Misses Brown. Where did they go to first was it? Him and her, do you mean?", "pos": 1659087}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Ah! Them two.", "pos": 1659252}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why, they didn’t go nowhere—not together, I mean. That was the art of it, that’s the way nobody saw ’em go, or has been able to say how they did go. They went different ways, I tell you Misses Brown.", "pos": 1659299}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Ay, ay, ay! To meet at an appointed place,", "pos": 1659727}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Why, if they weren’t a going to meet somewhere, I suppose they might as well have stayed at home, mightn’t they, Brown?", "pos": 1659851}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Well, Rob? Well?", "pos": 1660005}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "What, haven’t we talked enough yet, Misses Brown? Did she laugh that night, was it? Didn’t you ask if she laughed, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1660152}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Or cried?", "pos": 1660553}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Neither. She kept as steady when she and me—oh, I see you will have it out of me, Misses Brown! But take your solemn oath now, that you’ll never tell anybody. She kept as steady, then, when she and me went down to Southampton, as a image. In the morning she was just the same, Misses Brown. And when she went away in the packet before daylight, by herself—me pretending to be her servant, and seeing her safe aboard—she was just the same. Now, are you contented, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1660602}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "No, Rob. Not yet,", "pos": 1661285}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Oh, here’s a woman for you! What did you wish to know next, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1661337}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What became of Master? Where did he go?", "pos": 1661506}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Upon my soul, I don’t know, Misses Brown. Upon my soul I don’t know what he did, nor where he went, nor anything about him I only know what he said to me as a caution to hold my tongue, when we parted; and I tell you this, Misses Brown, as a friend, that sooner than ever repeat a word of what we’re saying now, you had better take and shoot yourself, or shut yourself up in this house, and set it a-fire, for there’s nothing he wouldn’t do, to be revenged upon you. You don’t know him half as well as I do, Misses Brown. You’re never safe from him, I tell you.", "pos": 1661641}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Haven’t I taken an oath, and won’t I keep it?", "pos": 1662221}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well, I’m sure I hope you will, Misses Brown. For your own sake, quite as much as mine.", "pos": 1662295}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Rob. Good gracious, Misses Brown, what’s the matter now? Rob! where did the lady and Master appoint to meet?", "pos": 1663119}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "How should I know, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1663461}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Come, lad! It’s no use leading me to that, and there leaving me. I want to know", "pos": 1663561}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "How can I pronounce the names of foreign places, Mrs Brown? What an unreasonable woman you are!", "pos": 1663723}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "But you have heard it said, Robby, and you know what it sounded like. Come!", "pos": 1663821}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "I never heard it said, Misses Brown,", "pos": 1663922}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Then, you have seen it written, and you can spell it.", "pos": 1663983}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Now I tell you beforehand what it is, Misses Brown, it’s no use asking me anything else. I won’t answer anything else; I can’t. How long it was to be before they met, or whose plan it was that they was to go away alone, I don’t know no more than you do. I don’t know any more about it. If I was to tell you how I found out this word, you’d believe that. Shall I tell you, Misses Brown?", "pos": 1664539}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Yes, Rob.", "pos": 1664939}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Well then, Misses Brown. The way—now you won’t ask any more, you know?", "pos": 1664951}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Not another word,", "pos": 1665109}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "When a certain person left the lady with me, he put a piece of paper with a direction written on it in the lady’s hand, saying it was in case she should forget. She wasn’t afraid of forgetting, for she tore it up as soon as his back was turned, and when I put up the carriage steps, I shook out one of the pieces—she sprinkled the rest out of the window, I suppose, for there was none there afterwards, though I looked for ’em. There was only one word on it, and that was this, if you must and will know. But remember! You’re upon your oath, Misses Brown! D Will you hold your tongue, Misses Brown? I won’t have it read out. Be quiet, will you!", "pos": 1665174}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Then write large, Rob, for my eyes are not good, even at print.", "pos": 1666080}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "D", "pos": 1666738}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "There! Now, I hope you’re contented, Misses Brown!", "pos": 1666845}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "What will he do, Ally?", "pos": 1668412}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Mischief,", "pos": 1668437}
{"speaker": "Mrs Brown", "text": "Murder?", "pos": 1668468}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "He’s a madman, in his wounded pride, and may do that, for anything we can say, or he either.", "pos": 1668499}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "I’ve stepped over from Balls Pond at a early hour, agreeable to my instructions last night. They was, to be sure and bring a note to you, Mr Carker, before you went out in the morning. I should have been here a good hour and a half ago, but for the state of health of Mrs P., who I thought I should have lost in the night, I do assure you, five distinct times.", "pos": 1672047}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Is your wife so ill?", "pos": 1672577}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "Why, you see, she takes what has happened in our House so much to heart, Miss. Her nerves is so very delicate, you see, and soon unstrung. Not but what the strongest nerves had good need to be shook, I’m sure. You feel it very much yourself, no doubts. I’m sure I feel it myself, in my humble way, in a manner I couldn’t have believed if I hadn’t been called upon to undergo. It has almost the effect of drink upon me. I literally feels every morning as if I had been taking more than was good for me over-night. Therefore I can judge, of the feelings of such as is at all peculiarly sitiwated in this most painful rewelation. If I rightly recollect, there was no answer, but perhaps you’ll be so good as cast your eye over it, Sir. Then I shall wish you good morning, Miss, and hoping, I’m sure, that you’ll not permit yourself to be more reduced in mind than you can help, by the late painful rewelation. The Papers, is more eager for news of it than you’d suppose possible. One of the Sunday ones, in a blue cloak and a white hat, that had previously offered for to bribe me—need I say with what success?—was dodging about our court last night as late as twenty minutes after eight o’clock. I see him myself, with his eye at the counting-house keyhole, which being patent is impervious. Another one, with military frogs, is in the parlour of the King’s Arms all the blessed day. I happened, last week, to let a little obserwation fall there, and next morning, which was Sunday, I see it worked up in print, in a most surprising manner.", "pos": 1672615}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Dear John. There are bad tidings in that letter.", "pos": 1675952}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Yes. But nothing unexpected. I saw the writer yesterday.", "pos": 1676092}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "The writer?", "pos": 1676165}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Mr Dombey. He passed twice through the Counting House while I was there. I had been able to avoid him before, but of course could not hope to do that long. I know how natural it was that he should regard my presence as something offensive; I felt it must be so, myself.", "pos": 1676179}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "He did not say so?", "pos": 1676451}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "No; he said nothing: but I saw that his glance rested on me for a moment, and I was prepared for what would happen—for what has happened. I am dismissed! I need not tell you, why your name would henceforth have an unnatural sound, in however remote a connexion with mine, or why the daily sight of anyone who bears it, would be unendurable to me. I have to notify the cessation of all engagements between us, from this date, and to request that no renewal of any communication with me, or my establishment, be ever attempted by you.’—Enclosed is an equivalent in money to a generously long notice, and this is my discharge. Heaven knows, Harriet, it is a lenient and considerate one, when we remember all!", "pos": 1676472}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "If it be lenient and considerate to punish you at all, John, for the misdeed of another, yes.", "pos": 1677330}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "We have been an ill-omened race to him. He has reason to shrink from the sound of our name, and to think that there is something cursed and wicked in our blood. I should almost think it too, Harriet, but for you.", "pos": 1677448}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Brother, don’t speak like this. If you have any special reason, as you say you have, and think you have—though I say, No!—to love me, spare me the hearing of such wild mad words! After so many years, this parting is a melancholy thing, I know, and the cause of it is dreadful to us both. We have to live, too, and must look about us for the means. Well, well! We can do so, undismayed. It is our pride, not our trouble, to strive, John, and to strive together! Oh, dearest sister! Tied, of your own noble will, to a ruined man! whose reputation is blighted; who has no friend himself, and has driven every friend of yours away! John! for my sake! In remembrance of our long companionship! Now, let me tell you, dear. I have, as you have, expected this; and when I have been thinking of it, and fearing that it would happen, and preparing myself for it, as well as I could, I have resolved to tell you, if it should be so, that I have kept a secret from you, and that we have a friend.", "pos": 1677683}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "What’s our friend’s name, Harriet?", "pos": 1678983}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Indeed, I don’t know, but he once made a very earnest protestation to me of his friendship and his wish to serve us: and to this day I believe him.", "pos": 1679056}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Harriet! where does this friend live?", "pos": 1679206}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Neither do I know that. But he knows us both, and our history—all our little history, John. That is the reason why, at his own suggestion, I have kept the secret of his coming, here, from you, lest his acquaintance with it should distress you.", "pos": 1679281}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Here! Has he been here, Harriet?", "pos": 1679543}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Here, in this room. Once.", "pos": 1679578}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "What kind of man?", "pos": 1679606}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Not young. ‘Grey-headed,’ as he said, ‘and fast growing greyer.’ But generous, and frank, and good, I am sure. In this room only once, but when here, he entreated me to suffer him to see me once a week as he passed by, in token of our being well, and continuing to need nothing at his hands. For I told him, when he proffered us any service he could render—which was the object of his visit—that we needed nothing. Once every week since then, and always on the same day, and at the same hour, he his gone past; always on foot; always going in the same direction—towards London; and never pausing longer than to bow to me, and wave his hand cheerfully, as a kind guardian might. He made that promise when he proposed these curious interviews, and has kept it so faithfully and pleasantly, that if I ever felt any trifling uneasiness about them in the beginning (which I don’t think I did, John; his manner was so plain and true) it very soon vanished, and left me quite glad when the day was coming. Last Monday—the first since this terrible event—he did not go by; and I have wondered whether his absence can have been in any way connected with what has happened.", "pos": 1679626}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "How?", "pos": 1680924}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I don’t know how. I have only speculated on the coincidence; I have not tried to account for it. I feel sure he will return. When he does, dear John, let me tell him that I have at last spoken to you, and let me bring you together. He will certainly help us to a new livelihood. His entreaty was that he might do something to smooth my life and yours; and I gave him my promise that if we ever wanted a friend, I would remember him. Then his name was to be no secret.", "pos": 1680953}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "Harriet, describe this gentleman to me. I surely ought to know one who knows me so well.", "pos": 1681423}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "John! It is the gentleman I told you of, today!", "pos": 1683086}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "is greatly relieved to hear you say that: he has been devising ways and means, all the way here, of explaining himself, and has been satisfied with none. Mr John, I am not quite a stranger here. You were stricken with astonishment when you saw me at your door just now. I observe you are more astonished at present. Well! That’s reasonable enough under existing circumstances. If we were not such creatures of habit as we are, we shouldn’t have reason to be astonished half so often. There’s nothing astonishing, in my having conceived a desire to see your sister, Mr John, or in my having gratified it in my own way. As to the regularity of my visits since (which she may have mentioned to you), there is nothing extraordinary in that. They soon grew into a habit; and we are creatures of habit—creatures of habit! It’s this same habit that confirms some of us, who are capable of better things, in Lucifer’s own pride and stubbornness—that confirms and deepens others of us in villainy—more of us in indifference —that hardens us from day to day, according to the temper of our clay, like images, and leaves us as susceptible as images to new impressions and convictions. You shall judge of its influence on me, John. For more years than I need name, I had my small, and exactly defined share, in the management of Dombey’s House, and saw your brother (who has proved himself a scoundrel! Your sister will forgive my being obliged to mention it) extending and extending his influence, until the business and its owner were his football; and saw you toiling at your obscure desk every day; and was quite content to be as little troubled as I might be, out of my own strip of duty, and to let everything about me go on, day by day, unquestioned, like a great machine—that was its habit and mine—and to take it all for granted, and consider it all right. My Wednesday nights came regularly round, our quartette parties came regularly off, my violoncello was in good tune, and there was nothing wrong in my world—or if anything not much—or little or much, it was no affair of mine.", "pos": 1683267}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "I can answer for your being more respected and beloved during all that time than anybody in the House, Sir,", "pos": 1685796}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Pooh! Good-natured and easy enough, I daresay, a habit I had. It suited the Manager; it suited the man he managed: it suited me best of all. I did what was allotted to me to do, made no court to either of them, and was glad to occupy a station in which none was required. So I should have gone on till now, but that my room had a thin wall. You can tell your sister that it was divided from the Manager’s room by a wainscot partition. They were adjoining rooms; had been one, Perhaps, originally; and were separated, as Mr Morfin says. I have whistled, hummed tunes, gone accurately through the whole of Beethoven’s Sonata in B, to let him know that I was within hearing, but he never heeded me. It happened seldom enough that I was within hearing of anything of a private nature, certainly. But when I was, and couldn’t otherwise avoid knowing something of it, I walked out. I walked out once, John, during a conversation between two brothers, to which, in the beginning, young Walter Gay was a party. But I overheard some of it before I left the room. You remember it sufficiently, perhaps, to tell your sister what its nature was?", "pos": 1685924}
{"speaker": "brother", "text": "It referred, Harriet, to the past, and to our relative positions in the House.", "pos": 1687180}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit—the habit of nine-tenths of the world—of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it, and induced me to recall the history of the two brothers, and to ponder on it. I think it was almost the first time in my life when I fell into this train of reflection—how will many things that are familiar, and quite matters of course to us now, look, when we come to see them from that new and distant point of view which we must all take up, one day or other? I was something less good-natured, as the phrase goes, after that morning, less easy and complacent altogether. Before I knew what to do, or whether I could do anything, there was a second conversation between the same two brothers, in which their sister was mentioned. I had no scruples of conscience in suffering all the waifs and strays of that conversation to float to me as freely as they would. I considered them mine by right. After that, I came here to see the sister for myself. The first time I stopped at the garden gate, I made a pretext of inquiring into the character of a poor neighbour; but I wandered out of that tract, and I think Miss Harriet mistrusted me. The second time I asked leave to come in; came in; and said what I wished to say. Your sister showed me reasons which I dared not dispute, for receiving no assistance from me then; but I established a means of communication between us, which remained unbroken until within these few days, when I was prevented, by important matters that have lately devolved upon me, from maintaining them.", "pos": 1687296}
{"speaker": "John Carker", "text": "How little I have suspected this, when I have seen you every day, Sir! If Harriet could have guessed your name—", "pos": 1689088}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "Why, to tell you the truth, John. I kept it to myself for two reasons. I don’t know that the first might have been binding alone; but one has no business to take credit for good intentions, and I made up my mind, at all events, not to disclose myself until I should be able to do you some real service or other. My second reason was, that I always hoped there might be some lingering possibility of your brother’s relenting towards you both; and in that case, I felt that where there was the chance of a man of his suspicious, watchful character, discovering that you had been secretly befriended by me, there was the chance of a new and fatal cause of division. I resolved, to be sure, at the risk of turning his displeasure against myself—which would have been no matter—to watch my opportunity of serving you with the head of the House; but the distractions of death, courtship, marriage, and domestic unhappiness, have left us no head but your brother for this long, long time. And it would have been better for us, to have been a lifeless trunk. All I could desire to say, and more, I have now said. All I mean goes beyond words, as I hope you understand and believe. The time has come, John—though most unfortunately and unhappily come—when I may help you without interfering with that redeeming struggle, which has lasted through so many years; since you were discharged from it today by no act of your own. It is late; I need say no more tonight. You will guard the treasure you have here, without advice or reminder from me. But go you first, John, with a light, without saying what you want to say, whatever that may be; and let me have a word with your sister. We have talked alone before, and in this room too; though it looks more natural with you here. You wish to ask me something of the man whose sister it is your misfortune to be.", "pos": 1689222}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I dread to ask,", "pos": 1691574}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "You have looked so earnestly at me more than once, that I think I can divine your question. Has he taken money? Is it that?", "pos": 1691606}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1691756}
{"speaker": "visitor", "text": "He has not.", "pos": 1691763}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I thank Heaven! For the sake of John.", "pos": 1691777}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "That he has abused his trust in many ways, that he has oftener dealt and speculated to advantage for himself, than for the House he represented; that he has led the House on, to prodigious ventures, often resulting in enormous losses; that he has always pampered the vanity and ambition of his employer, when it was his duty to have held them in check, and shown, as it was in his power to do, to what they tended here or there; will not, perhaps, surprise you now. Undertakings have been entered on, to swell the reputation of the House for vast resources, and to exhibit it in magnificent contrast to other merchants’ Houses, of which it requires a steady head to contemplate the possibly—a few disastrous changes of affairs might render them the probably—ruinous consequences. In the midst of the many transactions of the House, in most parts of the world: a great labyrinth of which only he has held the clue: he has had the opportunity, and he seems to have used it, of keeping the various results afloat, when ascertained, and substituting estimates and generalities for facts. But latterly—you follow me, Miss Harriet?", "pos": 1691833}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Perfectly, perfectly. Pray tell me all the worst at once.", "pos": 1692979}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Latterly, he appears to have devoted the greatest pains to making these results so plain and clear, that reference to the private books enables one to grasp them, numerous and varying as they are, with extraordinary ease. As if he had resolved to show his employer at one broad view what has been brought upon him by ministration to his ruling passion! That it has been his constant practice to minister to that passion basely, and to flatter it corruptly, is indubitable. In that, his criminality, as it is connected with the affairs of the House, chiefly consists.", "pos": 1693094}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "One other word before you leave me, dear Sir. There is no danger in all this?", "pos": 1693663}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "How danger?", "pos": 1693759}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "To the credit of the House?", "pos": 1693812}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "I cannot help answering you plainly, and trusting you completely,", "pos": 1693842}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You may. Indeed you may!", "pos": 1693963}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "I am sure I may. Danger to the House’s credit? No; none There may be difficulty, greater or less difficulty, but no danger, unless—unless, indeed—the head of the House, unable to bring his mind to the reduction of its enterprises, and positively refusing to believe that it is, or can be, in any position but the position in which he has always represented it to himself, should urge it beyond its strength. Then it would totter.", "pos": 1693990}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "But there is no apprehension of that?", "pos": 1694422}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "There shall be no half-confidence, between us. Mr Dombey is unapproachable by anyone, and his state of mind is haughty, rash, unreasonable, and ungovernable, now. But he is disturbed and agitated now beyond all common bounds, and it may pass. You now know all, both worst and best. No more tonight, and good-night! Mr Dombey is unapproachable by anyone, and his state of mind is haughty, rash, unreasonable, and ungovernable, now. But he is disturbed and agitated now beyond all common bounds, and it may pass. You now know all, both worst and best. No more tonight, and good-night!", "pos": 1694476}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Let me in! Let me in! I want to speak to you! Let me in! Let me speak to you! I am thankful—quiet—humble—anything you like. But let me speak to you.", "pos": 1697428}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "May I come in, or shall I speak here?", "pos": 1698156}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "What is it that you want? What is it that you have to say?", "pos": 1698234}
{"speaker": "woman", "text": "Not much, but let me say it out, or I shall never say it. I am tempted now to go away. There seem to be hands dragging me from the door. Let me come in, if you can trust me for this once!", "pos": 1698295}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Sit there, and look at me. You remember me?", "pos": 1698629}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I do.", "pos": 1698715}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "You remember what I told you I had been, and where I came from, ragged and lame, with the fierce wind and weather beating on my head?", "pos": 1698723}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1698859}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "You know how I came back that night, and threw your money in the dirt, and you and your race. Now, see me here, upon my knees. Am I less earnest now, than I was then?", "pos": 1698866}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "If what you ask, is forgiveness—", "pos": 1699035}
{"speaker": "other", "text": "But it’s not! What I ask is to be believed. Now you shall judge if I am worthy of belief, both as I was, and as I am.", "pos": 1699094}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "When I was young and pretty, and this, was only handled delicately, and couldn’t be admired enough, my mother, who had not been very mindful of me as a child, found out my merits, and was fond of me, and proud of me. She was covetous and poor, and thought to make a sort of property of me. No great lady ever thought that of a daughter yet, I’m sure, or acted as if she did—it’s never done, we all know—and that shows that the only instances of mothers bringing up their daughters wrong, and evil coming of it, are among such miserable folks as us. What came of that, I needn’t say. Wretched marriages don’t come of such things, in our degree; only wretchedness and ruin. Wretchedness and ruin came on me—came on me. I am wasting time, and there is none to spare; yet if I hadn’t thought of all, I shouldn’t be here now. Wretchedness and ruin came on me, I say. I was made a short-lived toy, and flung aside more cruelly and carelessly than even such things are. By whose hand do you think?", "pos": 1699523}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Why do you ask me?", "pos": 1700844}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Why do you tremble? His usage made a Devil of me. I sunk in wretchedness and ruin, lower and lower yet. I was concerned in a robbery—in every part of it but the gains—and was found out, and sent to be tried, without a friend, without a penny. Though I was but a girl, I would have gone to Death, sooner than ask him for a word, if a word of his could have saved me. I would! To any death that could have been invented. But my mother, covetous always, sent to him in my name, told the true story of my case, and humbly prayed and petitioned for a small last gift—for not so many pounds as I have fingers on this hand. Who was it, do you think, who snapped his fingers at me in my misery, lying, as he believed, at his feet, and left me without even this poor sign of remembrance; well satisfied that I should be sent abroad, beyond the reach of farther trouble to him, and should die, and rot there? Who was this, do you think?", "pos": 1700879}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Why do you ask me?", "pos": 1701846}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Why do you tremble? but that the answer is on your lips! It was your brother James. When I knew you were his sister—which was on that night—I came back, weary and lame, to spurn your gift. I felt that night as if I could have travelled, weary and lame, over the whole world, to stab him, if I could have found him in a lonely place with no one near. Do you believe that I was earnest in all that?", "pos": 1701885}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I do! Good Heaven, why are you come again?", "pos": 1702455}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Since then. I have seen him! I have followed him with my eyes. In the broad day. If any spark of my resentment slumbered in my bosom, it sprung into a blaze when my eyes rested on him. You know he has wronged a proud man, and made him his deadly enemy. What if I had given information of him to that man?", "pos": 1702500}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Information!", "pos": 1702884}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "What if I had found out one who knew your brother’s secret; who knew the manner of his flight, who knew where he and the companion of his flight were gone? What if I had made him utter all his knowledge, word by word, before his enemy, concealed to hear it? What if I had sat by at the time, looking into this enemy’s face, and seeing it change till it was scarcely human? What if I had seen him rush away, mad, in pursuit? What if I knew, now, that he was on his road, more fiend than man, and must, in so many hours, come up with him?", "pos": 1702917}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Remove your hand! Go away! Your touch is dreadful to me!", "pos": 1703456}
{"speaker": "other", "text": "I have done this. Do I speak and look as if I really had? Do you believe what I am saying?", "pos": 1703542}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I fear I must. Let my arm go!", "pos": 1703709}
{"speaker": "other", "text": "Not yet. A moment more. You can think what my revengeful purpose must have been, to last so long, and urge me to do this?", "pos": 1703741}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Dreadful!", "pos": 1703865}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Then when you see me now, here again, kneeling quietly on the ground, with my touch upon your arm, with my eyes upon your face, you may believe that there is no common earnestness in what I say, and that no common struggle has been battling in my breast. I am ashamed to speak the words, but I relent. I despise myself; I have fought with myself all day, and all last night; but I relent towards him without reason, and wish to repair what I have done, if it is possible. I wouldn’t have them come together while his pursuer is so blind and headlong. If you had seen him as he went out last night, you would know the danger better.", "pos": 1703891}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "How can it be prevented? What can I do?", "pos": 1704547}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "All night long. I had dreams of him—and yet I didn’t sleep—in his blood. All day, I have had him near me.", "pos": 1704604}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "What can I do?", "pos": 1704744}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "If there is anyone who’ll write, or send, or go to him, let them lose no time. He is at Dijon. Do you know the name, and where it is?", "pos": 1704803}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1704939}
{"speaker": "The woman", "text": "Warn him that the man he has made his enemy is in a frenzy, and that he doesn’t know him if he makes light of his approach. Tell him that he is on the road—I know he is!—and hurrying on. Urge him to get away while there is time—if there is time—and not to meet him yet. A month or so will make years of difference. Let them not encounter, through me. Anywhere but there! Any time but now! Let his foe follow him, and find him for himself, but not through me! There is enough upon my head without.", "pos": 1704946}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Who’s that? Who had bade them to do so?", "pos": 1708658}
{"speaker": "Bald Man", "text": "Monsieur had commanded it, when it was his pleasure to take the apartment. Monsieur had said, when he stayed there for an hour, en route, and left the letter for Madame—Madame had received it surely?", "pos": 1708812}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1709014}
{"speaker": "Bald Man", "text": "A thousand pardons! The sudden apprehension that it might have been forgotten had struck him; with despair! Monsieur had said that supper was to be ready at that hour: also that he had forewarned Madame of the commands he had given, in his letter. Monsieur had done the Golden Head the honour to request that the supper should be choice and delicate. Monsieur would find that his confidence in the Golden Head was not misplaced.", "pos": 1709021}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "She couldn’t say. It was all one.", "pos": 1710264}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I came here alone It was my choice to do so. I am well used to travelling; I want no attendance. They need send nobody to me.", "pos": 1712106}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "How strange to come here by yourself, my love! What? I say, how strange to come here alone! It was unnecessary caution surely, and might have defeated itself. You were to have engaged an attendant at Havre or Rouen, and have had abundance of time for the purpose, though you had been the most capricious and difficult (as you are the most beautiful, my love) of women. I have never seen you look so handsome, as you do tonight. Even the picture I have carried in my mind during this cruel probation, and which I have contemplated night and day, is exceeded by the reality. Hard, unrelenting terms they were! but they are all fulfilled and passed, and make the present more delicious and more safe. Sicily shall be the place of our retreat. In the idlest and easiest part of the world, my soul, we’ll both seek compensation for old slavery. Stand still! or I shall murder you! Stand still! come no nearer me, upon your life! Do you think to frighten me from any purpose that I have, and any course I am resolved upon, by reminding me of the solitude of this place, and there being no help near? Me, who am here alone, designedly? If I feared you, should I not have avoided you? If I feared you, should I be here, in the dead of night, telling you to your face what I am going to tell? And what is that, you handsome shrew? Handsomer so, than any other woman in her best humour? I tell you nothing, until you go back to that chair—except this, once again—Don’t come near me! Not a step nearer. I tell you, if you do, as Heaven sees us, I shall murder you! Do you mistake me for your husband? I have something lying here that is no love trinket, and sooner than endure your touch once more, I would use it on you—and you know it, while I speak—with less reluctance than I would on any other creeping thing that lives. How many times has your bold knavery assailed me with outrage and insult? How many times in your smooth manner, and mocking words and looks, have I been twitted with my courtship and my marriage? How many times have you laid bare my wound of love for that sweet, injured girl and lacerated it? How often have you fanned the fire on which, for two years, I have writhed; and tempted me to take a desperate revenge, when it has most tortured me? I have no doubt, Ma’am, that you have kept a good account, and that it’s pretty accurate. Come, Edith. To your husband, poor wretch, this was well enough— Why, if, if all my other reasons for despising him could have been blown away like feathers, his having you for his counsellor and favourite, would have almost been enough to hold their place. Is that a reason why you have run away with me? Yes, and why we are face to face for the last time. Wretch! We meet tonight, and part tonight. For not one moment after I have ceased to speak, will I stay here! I am a woman, who from her childhood has been shamed and steeled. I have been offered and rejected, put up and appraised, until my very soul has sickened. I have not had an accomplishment or grace that might have been a resource to me, but it has been paraded and vended to enhance my value, as if the common crier had called it through the streets. My poor, proud friends, have looked on and approved; and every tie between us has been deadened in my breast. There is not one of them for whom I care, as I could care for a pet dog. I stand alone in the world, remembering well what a hollow world it has been to me, and what a hollow part of it I have been myself. You know this, and you know that my fame with it is worthless to me. Yes; I imagined that. And calculated on it, and so pursued me. Grown too indifferent for any opposition but indifference, to the daily working of the hands that had moulded me to this; and knowing that my marriage would at least prevent their hawking of me up and down; I suffered myself to be sold, as infamously as any woman with a halter round her neck is sold in any market-place. You know that. Yes. I know that. And calculated on it, and so pursued me. From my marriage day, I found myself exposed to such new shame—to such solicitation and pursuit (expressed as clearly as if it had been written in the coarsest words, and thrust into my hand at every turn) from one mean villain, that I felt as if I had never known humiliation till that time. This shame my husband fixed upon me; hemmed me round with, himself; steeped me in, with his own hands, and of his own act, repeated hundreds of times. And thus—forced by the two from every point of rest I had—forced by the two to yield up the last retreat of love and gentleness within me, or to be a new misfortune on its innocent object—driven from each to each, and beset by one when I escaped the other—my anger rose almost to distraction against both. I do not know against which it rose higher—the master or the man! What should I say of honour or of chastity to you! What meaning would it have to you; what meaning would it have from me! But if I tell you that the lightest touch of your hand makes my blood cold with antipathy; that from the hour when I first saw and hated you, to now, when my instinctive repugnance is enhanced by every minute’s knowledge of you I have since had, you have been a loathsome creature to me which has not its like on earth; how then? Ay! How then, my queen? On that night, when, emboldened by the scene you had assisted at, you dared come to my room and speak to me, what passed? What passed? Your memory is so distinct, that I have no doubt you can recall it. I can. Hear it! Proposing then, this flight—not this flight, but the flight you thought it—you told me that in the having given you that meeting, and leaving you to be discovered there, if you so thought fit; and in the having suffered you to be alone with me many times before,—and having made the opportunities, you said,—and in the having openly avowed to you that I had no feeling for my husband but aversion, and no care for myself—I was lost; I had given you the power to traduce my name; and I lived, in virtuous reputation, at the pleasure of your breath.", "pos": 1713216}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All stratagems in love—-", "pos": 1722002}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The old adage—", "pos": 1722054}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "On that night, and then, the struggle that I long had had with something that was not respect for my good fame—that was I know not what—perhaps the clinging to that last retreat—was ended. On that night, and then, I turned from everything but passion and resentment. I struck a blow that laid your lofty master in the dust, and set you there, before me, looking at me now, and knowing what I mean. When I forget that this man put his lips to mine that night, and held me in his arms as he has done again tonight, when I forget the taint of his kiss upon my cheek—the cheek that Florence would have laid her guiltless face against—when I forget my meeting with her, while that taint was hot upon me, and in what a flood the knowledge rushed upon me when I saw her, that in releasing her from the persecution I had caused by my love, I brought a shame and degradation on her name through mine, and in all time to come should be the solitary figure representing in her mind her first avoidance of a guilty creature—then, Husband, from whom I stand divorced henceforth, I will forget these last two years, and undo what I have done, and undeceive you! See these! You have addressed these to me in the false name you go by; one here, some elsewhere on my road. The seals are unbroken. Take them back! We meet and part tonight. You have fallen on Sicilian days and sensual rest, too soon. You might have cajoled, and fawned, and played your traitor’s part, a little longer, and grown richer. You purchase your voluptuous retirement dear!", "pos": 1722070}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Edith! Sit down! Have done with this! What devil possesses you?", "pos": 1724131}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Their name is Legion, you and your master have raised them in a fruitful house, and they shall tear you both. False to him, false to his innocent child, false every way and everywhere, go forth and boast of me, and gnash your teeth, for once, to know that you are lying! In every vaunt you make. I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! You know how you came here tonight; you know how you stand cowering there; you see yourself in colours quite as despicable, if not as odious, as those in which I see you. Boast then, and revenge me on yourself.", "pos": 1724240}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "We don’t part so. Do you think I am drivelling, to let you go in your mad temper?", "pos": 1725432}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Do you think, that I am to be stayed?", "pos": 1725527}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I’ll try, my dear,", "pos": 1725583}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "God’s mercy on you, if you try by coming near me!", "pos": 1725650}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "And what, if there are none of these same boasts and vaunts on my part? What if I were to turn too? Come! We must make a treaty of this, or I may take some unexpected course. Sit down, sit down!", "pos": 1725715}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Too late! I have thrown my fame and good name to the winds! I have resolved to bear the shame that will attach to me—resolved to know that it attaches falsely—that you know it too—and that he does not, never can, and never shall. I’ll die, and make no sign. For this, I am here alone with you, at the dead of night. For this, I have met you here, in a false name, as your wife. For this, I have been seen here by those men, and left here. Nothing can save you now.", "pos": 1725959}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Lastly, take my warning! Look to yourself! You have been betrayed, as all betrayers are. It has been made known that you are in this place, or were to be, or have been. If I live, I saw my husband in a carriage in the street tonight!", "pos": 1727141}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Strumpet, it’s false!", "pos": 1727407}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Hark! do you hear it?", "pos": 1727596}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I am safer there, in any case. If I should not decide, to give this fool a meeting, I am less likely to be traced there, than abroad here, now. And if I should (this cursed fit being over), at least I shall not be alone, without a soul to speak to, or advise with, or stand by me. I shall not be run in upon and worried like a rat.", "pos": 1733393}
{"speaker": "Postillion", "text": "Who goes there! Monsieur?", "pos": 1735598}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1735626}
{"speaker": "Postillion", "text": "Monsieur has walked a long way in the dark midnight.", "pos": 1735633}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "No matter. Everyone to his task. Were there any other horses ordered at the Post-house?", "pos": 1735688}
{"speaker": "Postillion", "text": "A thousand devils!—and pardons! other horses? at this hour? No.", "pos": 1735778}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Listen, my friend. I am much hurried. Let us see how fast we can travel! The faster, the more money there will be to drink. Off we go then! Quick!", "pos": 1735844}
{"speaker": "Postillion", "text": "Halloa! whoop! Halloa! Hi!", "pos": 1735993}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Stop", "pos": 1740038}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "The devil! what’s the matter?", "pos": 1740190}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Hark! What’s that?", "pos": 1740269}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "What?", "pos": 1740290}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "That noise?", "pos": 1740298}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Ah Heaven, be quiet, cursed brigand! What noise?", "pos": 1740312}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Behind. Is it not another carriage at a gallop? There! what’s that?", "pos": 1740396}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Miscreant with a Pig’s head, stand still! There is nothing coming.", "pos": 1740466}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Nothing.", "pos": 1740626}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "No, nothing but the day yonder.", "pos": 1740637}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "You are right, I think. I hear nothing now, indeed. Go on!", "pos": 1740671}
{"speaker": "the driver", "text": "Hallo, whoop! Hallo, hi!", "pos": 1740958}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "What day is this?", "pos": 1750781}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "Day, Sir?", "pos": 1750869}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Is it Wednesday?", "pos": 1750881}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "Wednesday, Sir? No, Sir. Thursday, Sir.", "pos": 1750900}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I forgot. How goes the time? My watch is unwound.", "pos": 1750942}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "Wants a few minutes of five o’clock, Sir. Been travelling a long time, Sir, perhaps?", "pos": 1750994}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes", "pos": 1751081}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "By rail, Sir?", "pos": 1751087}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Yes", "pos": 1751103}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "Very confusing, Sir. Not much in the habit of travelling by rail myself, Sir, but gentlemen frequently say so.", "pos": 1751109}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "Do many gentlemen come here?", "pos": 1751222}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "Pretty well, Sir, in general. Nobody here at present. Rather slack just now, Sir. Everything is slack, Sir.", "pos": 1751252}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "At what time, do I leave here, did you say?", "pos": 1755655}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "About a quarter after four, Sir. Express comes through at four, Sir.—It don’t stop. Nobody going with you, Sir, probably. Two gentlemen here, Sir, but they’re waiting for the train to London.", "pos": 1755782}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "I thought you said there was nobody here,", "pos": 1756093}
{"speaker": "the waiter", "text": "Not then, sir. Two gentlemen came in the night by the short train that stops here, Sir. Warm water, Sir?", "pos": 1756233}
{"speaker": "Mr Carker", "text": "No; and take away the candle. There’s day enough for me.", "pos": 1756340}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh my own pretty darling sweet Miss Floy! to think that it should come to this and I should find you here my own dear dove with nobody to wait upon you and no home to call your own but never never will I go away again Miss Floy for though I may not gather moss I’m not a rolling stone nor is my heart a stone or else it wouldn’t bust as it is busting now oh dear oh dear! Oh love! I know all that’s past I know it all my tender pet and I’m a choking give me air!", "pos": 1759484}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Susan, dear good Susan!", "pos": 1760162}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh bless her! I that was her little maid when she was a little child! and is she really, really truly going to be married?", "pos": 1760203}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Who told you so?", "pos": 1760449}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh gracious me! that innocentest creetur Toots. I knew he must be right my dear, because he took on so. He’s the devotedest and innocentest infant! And is my darling really really going to be married!", "pos": 1760483}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "There, there! Now you’re quite yourself, dear Susan!", "pos": 1761154}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I-I-I never did see such a creetur as that Toots in all my born days never!", "pos": 1761550}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "So kind,", "pos": 1761643}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "And so comic! The way he’s been going on inside with me with that disrespectable Chicken on the box!", "pos": 1761674}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "About what, Susan?", "pos": 1761793}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Oh about Lieutenant Walters, and Captain Gills, and you my dear Miss Floy, and the silent tomb,", "pos": 1761842}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "The silent tomb!", "pos": 1761952}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "He says, that he’ll go down into it now immediately and quite comfortable, but bless your heart my dear Miss Floy he won’t, he’s a great deal too happy in seeing other people happy for that, he may not be a Solomon, nor do I say he is but this I do say a less selfish human creature human nature never knew!", "pos": 1761990}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey. To be again permitted to—to—gaze—at least, not to gaze, but—I don’t exactly know what I was going to say, but it’s of no consequence.", "pos": 1762901}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I have to thank you so often, that I have no words left, and don’t know how to do it. that I have no words left, and don’t know how to do it.", "pos": 1763067}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey, if it was possible that you could, consistently with your angelic nature, Curse me, you would—if I may be allowed to say so—floor me infinitely less, than by these undeserved expressions of kindness Their effect upon me—is—but, this is a digression, and of no consequence at all. I could wish, to take this opportunity, Miss Dombey, if I might, of entering into a word of explanation. I should have had the pleasure of—of returning with Susan at an earlier period; but, in the first place, we didn’t know the name of the relation to whose house she had gone, and, in the second, as she had left that relation’s and gone to another at a distance, I think that scarcely anything short of the sagacity of the Chicken, would have found her out in the time. This, however, is not the point. The company of Susan has been, I assure you, Miss Dombey, a consolation and satisfaction to me, in my state of mind, more easily conceived than described. The journey has been its own reward. That, however, still, is not the point. Miss Dombey, I have before observed that I know I am not what is considered a quick person. I am perfectly aware of that. I don’t think anybody could be better acquainted with his own—if it was not too strong an expression, I should say with the thickness of his own head—than myself. But, Miss Dombey, I do, notwithstanding, perceive the state of—of things—with Lieutenant Walters. Whatever agony that state of things may have caused me (which is of no consequence at all), I am bound to say, that Lieutenant Walters is a person who appears to be worthy of the blessing that has fallen on his—on his brow. May he wear it long, and appreciate it, as a very different, and very unworthy individual, that it is of no consequence to name, would have done! That, however, still, is not the point. Miss Dombey, Captain Gills is a friend of mine; and during the interval that is now elapsing, I believe it would afford Captain Gills pleasure to see me occasionally coming backwards and forwards here. It would afford me pleasure so to come. But I cannot forget that I once committed myself, fatally, at the corner of the Square at Brighton; and if my presence will be, in the least degree, unpleasant to you, I only ask you to name it to me now, and assure you that I shall perfectly understand you. I shall not consider it at all unkind, and shall only be too delighted and happy to be honoured with your confidence.", "pos": 1763256}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mr Toots, if you, who are so old and true a friend of mine, were to stay away from this house now, you would make me very unhappy. It can never, never, give me any feeling but pleasure to see you.", "pos": 1765934}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey, if I shed a tear, it is a tear of joy. It is of no consequence, and I am very much obliged to you. I may be allowed to remark, after what you have so kindly said, that it is not my intention to neglect my person any longer. I mean, that I shall consider it my duty as a fellow-creature generally, until I am claimed by the silent tomb, to make the best of myself, and to—to have my boots as brightly polished, as—as—circumstances will admit of. This is the last time, Miss Dombey, of my intruding any observation of a private and personal nature. I thank you very much indeed. If I am not, in a general way, as sensible as my friends could wish me to be, or as I could wish myself, I really am, upon my word and honour, particularly sensible of what is considerate and kind. I feel, as if I could express my feelings, at the present moment, in a most remarkable manner, if—if—I could only get a start. what is now to take place between us, takes place under the sacred seal of confidence. It is the sequel. Captain Gills, of what has taken place between myself and Miss Dombey, upstairs.", "pos": 1766153}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Alow and aloft, eh, my lad?", "pos": 1767663}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Exactly so, Captain Gills. Miss Dombey, I believe, Captain Gills, is to be shortly united to Lieutenant Walters?", "pos": 1767715}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, ay, my lad. We’re all shipmets here,—Wal”r and sweet—heart will be jined together in the house of bondage, as soon as the askings is over,", "pos": 1767950}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "The askings, Captain Gills!", "pos": 1768134}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "In the church, down yonder,", "pos": 1768183}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Oh! Yes!", "pos": 1768269}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And then, what follers? That there pretty creetur, as delicately brought up as a foreign bird, goes away upon the roaring main with Wal”r on a woyage to China!", "pos": 1768299}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Lord, Captain Gills!", "pos": 1768622}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay! The ship as took him up, when he was wrecked in the hurricane that had drove her clean out of her course, was a China trader, and Wal”r made the woyage, and got into favour, aboard and ashore—being as smart and good a lad as ever stepped—and so, the supercargo dying at Canton, he got made (having acted as clerk afore), and now he’s supercargo aboard another ship, same owners. And so, you see, the pretty creetur goes away upon the roaring main with Wal”r, on a woyage to China. What then? She loves him true. He loves her true. Them as should have loved and tended of her, treated of her like the beasts as perish. When she, cast out of home, come here to me, and dropped upon them planks, her wownded heart was broke. I know it. I, Ed’ard Cuttle, see it. There’s nowt but true, kind, steady love, as can ever piece it up again. If so be I didn’t know that, and didn’t know as Wal”r was her true love, brother, and she his, I’d have these here blue arms and legs chopped off, afore I’d let her go. But I know it, and what then! Why, then, I say, Heaven go with ’em both, and so it will! Amen!", "pos": 1768660}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, let me have the pleasure of shaking hands. You’ve a way of saying things, that gives me an agreeable warmth, all up my back. I say Amen. You are aware, Captain Gills, that I, too, have adored Miss Dombey.", "pos": 1769898}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Cheer up! Stand by, boy!", "pos": 1770137}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "It is my intention, Captain Gills, to cheer up. Also to standby, as much as possible. When the silent tomb shall yawn, Captain Gills, I shall be ready for burial; not before. But not being certain, just at present, of my power over myself, what I wish to say to you, and what I shall take it as a particular favour if you will mention to Lieutenant Walters, is as follows.", "pos": 1770224}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Is as follers. Steady!", "pos": 1770633}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Miss Dombey being so inexpressably kind, as to say that my presence is the reverse of disagreeable to her, and you and everybody here being no less forbearing and tolerant towards one who—who certainly, would appear to have been born by mistake, I shall come backwards and forwards of an evening, during the short time we can all be together. But what I ask is this. If, at any moment, I find that I cannot endure the contemplation of Lieutenant Walters’s bliss, and should rush out, I hope, Captain Gills, that you and he will both consider it as my misfortune and not my fault, or the want of inward conflict. That you’ll feel convinced I bear no malice to any living creature-least of all to Lieutenant Walters himself—and that you’ll casually remark that I have gone out for a walk, or probably to see what o’clock it is by the Royal Exchange. Captain Gills, if you could enter into this arrangement, and could answer for Lieutenant Walters, it would be a relief to my feelings that I should think cheap at the sacrifice of a considerable portion of my property.", "pos": 1770680}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad, say no more. There ain’t a colour you can run up, as won’t be made out, and answered to, by Wal”r and self.", "pos": 1771831}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, my mind is greatly relieved. I wish to preserve the good opinion of all here. I—I—mean well, upon my honour, however badly I may show it. You know, it’s as exactly as Burgess and Co. wished to oblige a customer with a most extraordinary pair of trousers, and could not cut out what they had in their minds.", "pos": 1771973}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "As to wages dear Miss Floy, you wouldn’t hint and wrong me so as think of naming them, for I’ve put money by and wouldn’t sell my love and duty at a time like this even if the Savings’ Banks and me were total strangers or the Banks were broke to pieces, but you’ve never been without me darling from the time your poor dear Ma was took away, and though I’m nothing to be boasted of you’re used to me and oh my own dear mistress through so many years don’t think of going anywhere without me, for it mustn’t and can’t be!", "pos": 1774046}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Susan, I am going on a long, long voyage.", "pos": 1774581}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Well Miss Floy, and what of that? the more you’ll want me. Lengths of voyages ain’t an object in my eyes, thank God!", "pos": 1774630}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "But, Susan, I am going with Walter, and I would go with Walter anywhere—everywhere! Walter is poor, and I am very poor, and I must learn, now, both to help myself, and help him.", "pos": 1774782}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Dear Miss Floy! it’s nothing new to you to help yourself and others too and be the patientest and truest of noble hearts, but let me talk to Mr Walter Gay and settle it with him, for suffer you to go away across the world alone I cannot, and I won’t.", "pos": 1774962}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Alone, Susan? Alone? and Walter taking me with him! I am sure you will not speak to Walter if I ask you not, and pray don’t, dear.", "pos": 1775282}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Why not, Miss Floy?", "pos": 1775558}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Because. I am going to be his wife, to give him up my whole heart, and to live with him and die with him. He might think, if you said to him what you have said to me, that I am afraid of what is before me, or that you have some cause to be afraid for me. Why, Susan, dear, I love him!", "pos": 1775580}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "keeping up", "pos": 1776595}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter, dear. Do you know what I have been thinking today?", "pos": 1780040}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Thinking how the time is flying on, and how soon we shall be upon the sea, sweet Florence?", "pos": 1780156}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I don’t mean that, Walter, though I think of that too. I have been thinking what a charge I am to you.", "pos": 1780249}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "A precious, sacred charge, dear heart! Why, I think that sometimes.", "pos": 1780354}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You are laughing, Walter. I know that’s much more in your thoughts than mine. But I mean a cost.", "pos": 1780424}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "A cost, my own?", "pos": 1780522}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "In money, dear. All these preparations that Susan and I are so busy with—I have been able to purchase very little for myself. You were poor before. But how much poorer I shall make you, Walter!", "pos": 1780540}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And how much richer, Florence! Besides, long ago—before I went to sea—I had a little purse presented to me, dearest, which had money in it.", "pos": 1780736}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Ah! very little! very little, Walter! But, you must not think, that I regret to be this burden on you. No, dear love, I am glad of it. I am happy in it. I wouldn’t have it otherwise for all the world!", "pos": 1780933}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Nor I, indeed, dear Florence.", "pos": 1781257}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Ay! but, Walter, you can never feel it as I do. I am so proud of you! It makes my heart swell with such delight to know that those who speak of you must say you married a poor disowned girl, who had taken shelter here; who had no other home, no other friends; who had nothing—nothing! Oh, Walter, if I could have brought you millions, I never could have been so happy for your sake, as I am!", "pos": 1781289}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And you, dear Florence? are you nothing?", "pos": 1781683}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, nothing, Walter. Nothing but your wife. I am nothing any more, that is not you. I have no earthly hope any more, that is not you. I have nothing dear to me any more, that is not you. Sire,", "pos": 1781739}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Florence, love, the lading of our ship is nearly finished, and probably on the very day of our marriage she will drop down the river. Shall we go away that morning, and stay in Kent until we go on board at Gravesend within a week?", "pos": 1782372}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "If you please, Walter. I shall be happy anywhere. But—", "pos": 1782605}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Yes, my life?", "pos": 1782662}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You know, that we shall have no marriage party, and that nobody will distinguish us by our dress from other people. As we leave the same day, will you—will you take me somewhere that morning, Walter—early—before we go to church?", "pos": 1782678}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stand by! Ed’ard Cuttle, my lad,", "pos": 1785464}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Susan. I am drawn towards the building. The words which cut me off from Miss Dombey for ever, will strike upon my ears like a knell you know, but upon my word and honour, I feel that I must hear them. Therefore, will you accompany me to-morrow, to the sacred edifice? Susan, before my whiskers began to be observed by anybody but myself, I adored Miss Dombey. While yet a victim to the thraldom of Blimber, I adored Miss Dombey. When I could no longer be kept out of my property, in a legal point of view, and—and accordingly came into it—I adored Miss Dombey. The banns which consign her to Lieutenant Walters, and me to—to Gloom, you know, may be dreadful, will be dreadful; but I feel that I should wish to hear them spoken. I feel that I should wish to know that the ground was certainly cut from under me, and that I hadn’t a hope to cherish, or a—or a leg, in short, to—to go upon.", "pos": 1785824}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "now I am sure I had no hope, you know, I felt more comfortable—at least not exactly more comfortable, but more comfortably and completely miserable.", "pos": 1792595}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Steady, steady! what’s amiss with you? You don’t seem easy in your mind tonight, my boy! It’s my opinion, Di, as you have your doubts of Mrs Richards; but if you’re the animal I take you to be, you’ll think better o’ that; for her looks is her commission. Now, Brother: if so be as you’re ready, heave ahead. Sol Gills ahoy! Hooroar, my lad, hooroar!", "pos": 1793603}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Certainly, Captain Gills, whatever you think proper!", "pos": 1795294}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Chock full o’ science, as ever he was! Sol Gills, Sol Gills, what have you been up to, for this many a long day, my ould boy?", "pos": 1796130}
{"speaker": "the old man", "text": "I’m half blind, Ned,", "pos": 1796286}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "and almost deaf and dumb with joy.", "pos": 1796327}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "His wery woice, his wery woice as chock full o’ science as ever it was! Sol Gills, lay to, my lad, upon your own wines and fig-trees like a taut ould patriark as you are, and overhaul them there adwentures o’ yourn, in your own formilior woice. “Tis the woice, of the sluggard, I heerd him complain, you have woke me too soon, I must slumber again. Scatter his ene-mies, and make ’em fall!", "pos": 1796364}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Although", "pos": 1797190}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Lost to sight, to memory dear,", "pos": 1797300}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Exactly so, Captain Gills! Although I had not the pleasure of your acquaintance, Mr—Mr Sols, before that happened, I have the greatest pleasure, I assure you, in—you know, in knowing you. I hope, that you’re as well as can be expected.", "pos": 1797372}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ned Cuttle, my dear boy, although I have heard something of the changes of events here, from my pleasant friend there—what a pleasant face she has to be sure, to welcome a wanderer home!", "pos": 1797957}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Hear him! ’Tis woman as seduces all mankind. For which, you’ll overhaul your Adam and Eve, brother.", "pos": 1798223}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I shall make a point of doing so, Captain Gills.", "pos": 1798375}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Although I have heard something of the changes of events, from her, that they are so great and unexpected, and I am so overpowered by the sight of my dear boy, and by the, that I—I can’t say much tonight. But my dear Ned Cuttle, why didn’t you write?", "pos": 1798441}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Write! Write, Sol Gills?", "pos": 1799072}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ay, either to Barbados, or Jamaica, or Demerara, that was what I asked.", "pos": 1799121}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What you asked, Sol Gills?", "pos": 1799215}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Ay. Don’t you know, Ned? Sure you have not forgotten? Every time I wrote to you.", "pos": 1799266}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Sol Gills. I’m gone about and adrift. Pay out a word or two respecting them adwenturs, will you! Can’t I bring up, nohows? Nohows?", "pos": 1799615}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "You know, Ned, why I left here. Did you open my packet, Ned?", "pos": 1799894}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, ay, ay. To be sure, I opened the packet. And read it? And read it My dear Ned Cuttle, when I left home for the West Indies in forlorn search of intelligence of my dear- There he sits! There’s Wal”r!", "pos": 1799975}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Well, Ned. Now attend a moment! When I wrote first—that was from Barbados—I said that though you would receive that letter long before the year was out, I should be glad if you would open the packet, as it explained the reason of my going away. Very good, Ned. When I wrote the second, third, and perhaps the fourth times—that was from Jamaica—I said I was in just the same state, couldn’t rest, and couldn’t come away from that part of the world, without knowing that my boy was lost or saved. When I wrote next—that, I think, was from Demerara, wasn’t it?", "pos": 1800415}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "That he thinks was from Demerara, warn’t it!", "pos": 1800995}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "—I said, that still there was no certain information got yet. That I found many captains and others, in that part of the world, who had known me for years, and who assisted me with a passage here and there, and for whom I was able, now and then, to do a little in return, in my own craft. That everyone was sorry for me, and seemed to take a sort of interest in my wanderings; and that I began to think it would be my fate to cruise about in search of tidings of my boy, until I died.", "pos": 1801107}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Began to think as how he was a scientific Flying Dutchman!", "pos": 1801594}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "But when the news come one day, Ned,—that was to Barbados, after I got back there,—that a China trader home’ard bound had been spoke, that had my boy aboard, then, Ned, I took passage in the next ship and came home; arrived at home tonight to find it true, thank God!", "pos": 1801712}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Sol Gills! The observation as I’m a-going to make is calc’lated to blow every stitch of sail as you can carry, clean out of the bolt-ropes, and bring you on your beam ends with a lurch. Not one of them letters was ever delivered to Ed’ard Cuttle. Not one o’ them letters, was ever delivered unto Ed’ard Cuttle, Mariner, of England, as lives at home at ease, and doth improve each shining hour!", "pos": 1802178}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "And posted by my own hand! And directed by my own hand, Number nine Brig Place!", "pos": 1802654}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What do you mean, Sol Gills, my friend, by Number nine Brig Place?", "pos": 1802836}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Mean? Your lodgings, Ned. Mrs What’s-her-name! I shall forget my own name next, but I am behind the present time—I always was, you recollect—and very much confused. Mrs—", "pos": 1802927}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Sol Gills! it ain’t the name of MacStinger as you’re a trying to remember?", "pos": 1803123}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Of course it is! To be sure Ned. Mrs MacStinger!", "pos": 1803281}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Overhaul that there again, Sol Gills, will you be so kind?", "pos": 1803603}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "All these letters I posted with my own hand, and directed with my own hand, to Captain Cuttle, at Mrs MacStinger’s, Number nine Brig Place.", "pos": 1803681}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why, friends all. I cut and run from there!", "pos": 1804125}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And no one knew where you were gone, Captain Cuttle?", "pos": 1804240}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Bless your heart, Wal”r, she’d never have allowed o’ my coming to take charge o’ this here property. Nothing could be done but cut and run. Lord love you, Wal”r! you’ve only seen her in a calm! But see her when her angry passions rise—and make a note on!", "pos": 1804317}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "I’d give it her!", "pos": 1804632}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Would you, do you think, my dear? Well, my dear, it does you credit. But there ain’t no wild animal I wouldn’t sooner face myself. I only got my chest away by means of a friend as nobody’s a match for. It was no good sending any letter there. She wouldn’t take in any letter, bless you, under them circumstances! Why, you could hardly make it worth a man’s while to be the postman!", "pos": 1804680}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Then it’s pretty clear, Captain Cuttle, that all of us, and you and Uncle Sol especially, may thank Mrs MacStinger for no small anxiety.", "pos": 1805132}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Mr Toots,", "pos": 1806709}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "we shall see each other to-morrow morning?", "pos": 1806773}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Lieutenant Walters. I shall certainly be present.", "pos": 1806818}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "This is the last night we shall meet for a long time—the last night we may ever meet. Such a noble heart as yours, must feel, I think, when another heart is bound to it. I hope you know that I am very grateful to you?", "pos": 1806920}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Walters. I should be glad to feel that you had reason to be so.", "pos": 1807155}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Florence, on this last night of her bearing her own name, has made me promise—it was only just now, when you left us together—that I would tell you—with her dear love— —With her dear love, that she can never have a friend whom she will value above you. That the recollection of your true consideration for her always, can never be forgotten by her. That she remembers you in her prayers tonight, and hopes that you will think of her when she is far away. Shall I say anything for you?", "pos": 1807256}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Say, Walter, that I shall think of her every day, but never without feeling happy to know that she is married to the man she loves, and who loves her. Say, if you please, that I am sure her husband deserves her—even her!—and that I am glad of her choice.", "pos": 1807845}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "Now, Master. I want to know whether this here gammon is to finish it, or whether you’re a going in to win?", "pos": 1809647}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Chicken, explain yourself.", "pos": 1809829}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "Why then, here’s all about it, Master. I ain’t a cove to chuck a word away. Here’s wot it is. Are any on ’em to be doubled up? Come, Master. Is it to be gammon or pluck? Which?", "pos": 1809879}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Chicken, your expressions are coarse, and your meaning is obscure.", "pos": 1810299}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "Why, then, I tell you what, Master. This is where it is. It’s mean.", "pos": 1810389}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "What is mean, Chicken?", "pos": 1810479}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "It is. There! Now, Master! Wot! When you could go and blow on this here match to the stiff’un; and when you could knock the winner and all the kit of ’em dead out o’ wind and time, are you going to give in? To give in? Wy, it’s mean!", "pos": 1810520}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Chicken, you’re a perfect Vulture! Your sentiments are atrocious.", "pos": 1810985}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "My sentiments is Game and Fancy, Master. That’s wot my sentiments is. I can’t abear a meanness. I’m afore the public, I’m to be heerd on at the bar of the Little Helephant, and no Gov’ner o’ mine mustn’t go and do what’s mean. Wy, it’s mean. That’s where it is. It’s mean.", "pos": 1811080}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Chicken, you disgust me.", "pos": 1811426}
{"speaker": "Chicken", "text": "Master, there’s a pair on us, then. Come! Here’s a offer! You’ve spoke to me more than once”t or twice’t about the public line. Never mind! Give me a fi’typunnote to-morrow, and let me go.", "pos": 1811470}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Chicken, after the odious sentiments you have expressed, I shall be glad to part on such terms.", "pos": 1811704}
{"speaker": "the Chicken", "text": "Done then. It’s a bargain. This here conduct of yourn won’t suit my book, Master. Wy, it’s mean. That’s where it is; it’s mean!", "pos": 1811823}
{"speaker": "Mrs Miff", "text": "Baptists or Wesleyans, or some o’ them. Drat ’em, you read the same things over ’em and instead of sovereigns get sixpences!", "pos": 1813249}
{"speaker": "Mr Sownds", "text": "It must be done, Ma’am. We must marry ’em. We must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armies. We must marry ’em, Ma’am, and keep the country going.", "pos": 1813570}
{"speaker": "the gentleman", "text": "Only, to walk round the church.", "pos": 1814080}
{"speaker": "Mrs Miff", "text": "Ahem, you’ll come to us one of these mornings, my dears, unless I’m much mistaken! Well, well, you might do worse. For you’re a tidy pair!", "pos": 1814510}
{"speaker": "Mr Sownds", "text": "Altogether, Mrs Miff, she is what you may call a rose-bud.", "pos": 1815546}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Dear Walter, thank you! I can go away, now, happy.", "pos": 1815932}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "And when we come back, Florence, we will come and see his grave again.", "pos": 1815985}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "It is very early, Walter, and the streets are almost empty yet. Let us walk.", "pos": 1816209}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "But you will be so tired, my love.", "pos": 1816288}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh no! I was very tired the first time that we ever walked together, but I shall not be so today.", "pos": 1816325}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "God bless you, Susan; dearest Susan! If you ever can bear witness to the love I have for Walter, and the reason that I have to love him, do it for his sake. Good-bye! Good-bye!", "pos": 1821681}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Miss Floy, my darling! look at me! We are all so happy now, dear! One more good-bye, my precious, one more! We are all so—so happy now, my dear Miss Floy! You, you won’t be angry with me now. Now will you?", "pos": 1823246}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Angry, Susan!", "pos": 1823636}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "No, no; I am sure you won’t. I say you won’t, my pet, my dearest! and here’s the Captain too—your friend the Captain, you know—to say good-bye once more!", "pos": 1823652}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Hooroar, my Heart’s Delight! Hooroar, Wal”r my lad. Hooroar! Hooroar!", "pos": 1823826}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Hooroar, my lad! Hooroar, my Heart’s Delight!", "pos": 1824514}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "A admiral’s cabin, mind you, ain’t more trim. Ed’ard Cuttle, my lad, you never shaped a better course in your life than when you made that there little property over jintly. You see how the land bore, Ed’ard, and it does you credit, my lad.", "pos": 1826691}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "My boy has been preserved and thrives. What right have I to be otherwise than thankful and happy!", "pos": 1827416}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Sol! There’s the last bottle of the old Madeira down below. Would you wish to have it up tonight, my boy, and drink to Wal”r and his wife?", "pos": 1827743}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "To Mr Dombey. From Walter. To be sent in three weeks’ time. I’ll read it.", "pos": 1828060}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Sir. I am married to your daughter. She is gone with me upon a distant voyage. To be devoted to her is to have no claim on her or you, but God knows that I am. Why, loving her beyond all earthly things, I have yet, without remorse, united her to the uncertainties and dangers of my life, I will not say to you. You know why, and you are her father. Do not reproach her. She has never reproached you. I do not think or hope that you will ever forgive me. There is nothing I expect less. But if an hour should come when it will comfort you to believe that Florence has someone ever near her, the great charge of whose life is to cancel her remembrance of past sorrow, I solemnly assure you, you may, in that hour, rest in that belief.", "pos": 1828157}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "We won’t drink the last bottle of the old Madeira yet, Ned. Not yet.", "pos": 1829001}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Not yet. No. Not yet.", "pos": 1829104}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh Walter, dearest love, I am so happy! As I hear the sea, and sit watching it, it brings so many days into my mind. It makes me think so much—", "pos": 1829993}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Of Paul, my love. I know it does.", "pos": 1830258}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "things was going wrong. twelve and ninepence in the pound, twelve and ninepence in the pound! Might I make so bold as ask, Sir, are you unhappy in your mind?", "pos": 1833424}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "My faithful Perch—but no, it cannot be! Leave me, Perch!", "pos": 1834045}
{"speaker": "Mr Perch", "text": "it wasn’t for him to betray his trust, was it?", "pos": 1834573}
{"speaker": "Club members", "text": "whether this tremendous smash had been at all expected, and how his friend Dombey bore it.", "pos": 1835898}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "it was a bad world, Sir, altogether; that Joey knew a thing or two, but had been done, Sir, done like an infant; that if you had foretold this, Sir, to J. Bagstock, when he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh’d you—would have pooh-pooh’d you, Sir, by the Lord! That Joe had been deceived, Sir, taken in, hoodwinked, blindfolded, but was broad awake again and staring; insomuch, Sir, that if Joe’s father were to rise up from the grave to-morrow, he wouldn’t trust the old blade with a penny piece, but would tell him that his son Josh was too old a soldier to be done again, Sir. That he was a suspicious, crabbed, cranky, used-up, J. B. infidel, Sir; and that if it were consistent with the dignity of a rough and tough old Major, of the old school, who had had the honour of being personally known to, and commended by, their late Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Kent and York, to retire to a tub and live in it, by Gad! Sir, he’d have a tub in Pall Mall to-morrow, to show his contempt for mankind!", "pos": 1836056}
{"speaker": "Landlady", "text": "In mourning,", "pos": 1841367}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Alone! and John here this morning! Is there anything the matter, my dear? But no, your face tells quite another story.", "pos": 1841603}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I am afraid it is a selfish revelation that you see there, then,", "pos": 1841747}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "It is a very pleasant one, and, if selfish, a novelty too, worth seeing in you. But I don’t believe that.", "pos": 1841828}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You will not be surprised at my coming alone, or at John’s not having told you I was coming, and you will believe that, when I tell you why I have come. May I do so now?", "pos": 1842069}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "You can do nothing better.", "pos": 1842257}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You were not busy?", "pos": 1842286}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "I have been, all day. Here’s my witness. I have been confiding all my cares to it. I wish I had none but my own to tell.", "pos": 1842365}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Is the House at an end?", "pos": 1842488}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Completely at an end.", "pos": 1842539}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Will it never be resumed?", "pos": 1842563}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Never. Never. You remember what I told you. It has been, all along, impossible to convince him; impossible to reason with him; sometimes, impossible even to approach him. The worst has happened; and the House has fallen, never to be built up any more.", "pos": 1842591}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "And Mr Dombey, is he personally ruined?", "pos": 1843023}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Ruined.", "pos": 1843065}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Will he have no private fortune left? Nothing?", "pos": 1843075}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "The extent of Mr Dombey’s resources is not accurately within my knowledge; but though they are doubtless very large, his obligations are enormous. He is a gentleman of high honour and integrity. Any man in his position could, and many a man in his position would, have saved himself, by making terms which would have very slightly, almost insensibly, increased the losses of those who had had dealings with him, and left him a remnant to live upon. But he is resolved on payment to the last farthing of his means. His own words are, that they will clear, or nearly clear, the House, and that no one can lose much. Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! His pride shows well in this.", "pos": 1843439}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Have you seen him lately?", "pos": 1844406}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "No one sees him. When this crisis of his affairs renders it necessary for him to come out of his house, he comes out for the occasion, and again goes home, and shuts himself up, and will see no one. He has written me a letter, acknowledging our past connexion in higher terms than it deserved, and parting from me. I am delicate of obtruding myself upon him now, never having had much intercourse with him in better times; but I have tried to do so. I have written, gone there, entreated. Quite in vain. Well, well, Miss Harriet, this is not to the purpose. You have not come here to hear this. Some other and pleasanter theme is in your mind. Let it be in mine, too, and we shall talk upon more equal terms. Come!", "pos": 1844434}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "No, it is the same theme. Is it not likely that it should be? Is it not natural that John and I should have been thinking and speaking very much of late of these great changes? Mr Dombey, whom he served so many years—you know upon what terms—reduced, as you describe; and we quite rich! I need not remind you, through what means our circumstances changed. You have not forgotten that our brother James, upon that dreadful day, left no will, no relations but ourselves. You know, our history, the history of both my brothers, in connexion with the unfortunate, unhappy gentleman, of whom you have spoken so truly. You know how few our wants are—John’s and mine—and what little use we have for money, after the life we have led together for so many years; and now that he is earning an income that is ample for us, through your kindness. You are not unprepared to hear what favour I have come to ask of you?", "pos": 1845384}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "I hardly know. I was, a minute ago. Now, I think, I am not.", "pos": 1846830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of my dead brother I say nothing. If the dead know what we do—but you understand me. Of my living brother I could say much; but what need I say more, than that this act of duty, in which I have come to ask your indispensable assistance, is his own, and that he cannot rest until it is performed!", "pos": 1846891}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dear Sir,", "pos": 1847323}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "it must be done very quietly and secretly. Your experience and knowledge will point out a way of doing it. Mr Dombey may, perhaps, be led to believe that it is something saved, unexpectedly, from the wreck of his fortunes; or that it is a voluntary tribute to his honourable and upright character, from some of those with whom he has had great dealings; or that it is some old lost debt repaid. There must be many ways of doing it. I know you will choose the best. The favour I have come to ask is, that you will do it for us in your own kind, generous, considerate manner. That you will never speak of it to John, whose chief happiness in this act of restitution is to do it secretly, unknown, and unapproved of: that only a very small part of the inheritance may be reserved to us, until Mr Dombey shall have possessed the interest of the rest for the remainder of his life; that you will keep our secret, faithfully—but that I am sure you will; and that, from this time, it may seldom be whispered, even between you and me, but may live in my thoughts only as a new reason for thankfulness to Heaven, and joy and pride in my brother.", "pos": 1847355}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "My dear Harriet. I was not prepared for this. Do I understand you that you wish to make your own part in the inheritance available for your good purpose, as well as John’s?", "pos": 1848727}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, yes,", "pos": 1848937}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When we have shared everything together for so long a time, and have had no care, hope, or purpose apart, could I bear to be excluded from my share in this? May I not urge a claim to be my brother’s partner and companion to the last?", "pos": 1848961}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Heaven forbid that I should dispute it!", "pos": 1849197}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We may rely on your friendly help?", "pos": 1849251}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I knew we might!", "pos": 1849298}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "I should be a worse man than,—than I hope I am, or would willingly believe myself, if I could not give you that assurance from my heart and soul. You may, implicitly. Upon my honour, I will keep your secret. And if it should be found that Mr Dombey is so reduced as I fear he will be, acting on a determination that there seem to be no means of influencing, I will assist you to accomplish the design, on which you and John are jointly resolved. Harriet. To speak to you of the worth of any sacrifice that you can make now—above all, of any sacrifice of mere money—would be idle and presumptuous. To put before you any appeal to reconsider your purpose or to set narrow limits to it, would be, I feel, not less so. I have no right to mar the great end of a great history, by any obtrusion of my own weak self. I have every right to bend my head before what you confide to me, satisfied that it comes from a higher and better source of inspiration than my poor worldly knowledge. I will say only this: I am your faithful steward; and I would rather be so, and your chosen friend, than I would be anybody in the world, except yourself. Are you going home? Let me go with you.", "pos": 1849317}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not tonight. I am not going home now; I have a visit to make alone. Will you come to-morrow?", "pos": 1850668}
{"speaker": "Mr Morfin", "text": "Well, well. I’ll come to-morrow. In the meantime, I’ll think of this, and how we can best proceed. And perhaps I’ll think of it, dear Harriet, and—and—think of me a little in connexion with it.", "pos": 1850763}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "How is your patient, nurse, tonight?", "pos": 1852990}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "In a poor way, Miss, I am afraid. Oh how she do remind me, sometimes, of my Uncle’s Betsey Jane!", "pos": 1853043}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "In what respect?", "pos": 1853216}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Miss, in all respects, except that she’s grown up, and Betsey Jane, when at death’s door, was but a child.", "pos": 1853250}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "But you have told me she recovered, so there is the more reason for hope, Mrs Wickam.", "pos": 1853380}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Ah, Miss, hope is an excellent thing for such as has the spirits to bear it! My own spirits is not equal to it, but I don’t owe it any grudge. I envys them that is so blest!", "pos": 1853495}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You should try to be more cheerful,", "pos": 1853708}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "Thank you, Miss, I’m sure. If I was so inclined, the loneliness of this situation—you’ll excuse my speaking so free—would put it out of my power, in four and twenty hours; but I ain’t at all. I’d rather not. The little spirits that I ever had, I was bereaved of at Brighton some few years ago, and I think I feel myself the better for it.", "pos": 1853764}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Alice!", "pos": 1855577}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "am I late tonight?", "pos": 1855617}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "You always seem late, but are always early.", "pos": 1855638}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "You are better?", "pos": 1855774}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "It matters very little! Better or worse today, is but a day’s difference—perhaps not so much.", "pos": 1855936}
{"speaker": "Mrs Wickam", "text": "while we are here, let us repeat the mixture as before.", "pos": 1856345}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "No, evil courses, and remorse, travel, want, and weather, storm within, and storm without, have worn my life away. It will not last much longer. I lie here, sometimes, thinking I should like to live until I had had a little time to show you how grateful I could be! It is a weakness, and soon passes. Better for you as it is. Better for me!", "pos": 1856403}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "How long is it, since I went to you and told you what I had done, and when you were advised it was too late for anyone to follow?", "pos": 1857574}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "It is a year and more,", "pos": 1857721}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "A year and more. Months upon months since you brought me here!", "pos": 1857760}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1857891}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Brought me here, by force of gentleness and kindness. Me! and made me human by woman’s looks and words, and angel’s deeds! Mother, tell her what you know.", "pos": 1857898}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Tonight, my deary?", "pos": 1858650}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Ay, mother, tonight!", "pos": 1858671}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "My handsome gal—", "pos": 1859044}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "Changed, long ago, mother! Withered, long ago. Don’t grieve for that now.", "pos": 1859164}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "—My daughter, my gal who’ll soon get better, and shame ’em all with her good looks. Who’ll soon get better, I say, and who’ll shame ’em all with her good looks—she will. I say she will! she shall! my daughter has been turned away from, and cast out, but she could boast relationship to proud folks too, if she chose. Ah! To proud folks! There’s relationship without your clergy and your wedding rings—they may make it, but they can’t break it—and my daughter’s well related. Show me Mrs Dombey, and I’ll show you my Alice’s first cousin. What! Though I am old and ugly now,—much older by life and habit than years though,—I was once as young as any. Ah! as pretty too, as many! I was a fresh country wench in my time, darling, and looked it, too. Down in my country, Mrs Dombey’s father and his brother were the gayest gentlemen and the best-liked that came a visiting from London—they have long been dead, though! Lord, Lord, this long while! The brother, who was my Ally’s father, longest of the two. They were as like, as you could see two brothers, so near an age—there wasn’t much more than a year between them, as I recollect—and if you could have seen my gal, as I have seen her once, side by side with the other’s daughter, you’d have seen, for all the difference of dress and life, that they were like each other. Oh! is the likeness gone, and is it my gal—only my gal—that’s to change so!", "pos": 1859278}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "We shall all change, mother, in our turn,", "pos": 1861519}
{"speaker": "Old woman", "text": "Turn! but why not hers as soon as my gal’s! The mother must have changed—she looked as old as me, and full as wrinkled through her paint—but she was handsome. What have I done, I, what have I done worse than her, that only my gal is to lie there fading! That’s what Alice bade me tell you, deary. That’s all. I found it out when I began to ask who she was, and all about her, away in Warwickshire there, one summer-time. Such relations was no good to me, then. They wouldn’t have owned me, and had nothing to give me. I should have asked ’em, maybe, for a little money, afterwards, if it hadn’t been for my Alice; she’d a’most have killed me, if I had, I think. She was as proud as t’other in her way, for all she’s so quiet now; but she’ll shame ’em with her good looks yet. Ha, ha! She’ll shame ’em, will my handsome daughter!", "pos": 1861575}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "I have felt, lying here, that I should like you to know this. It might explain, I have thought, something that used to help to harden me. I had heard so much, in my wrongdoing, of my neglected duty, that I took up with the belief that duty had not been done to me, and that as the seed was sown, the harvest grew. I somehow made it out that when ladies had bad homes and mothers, they went wrong in their way, too; but that their way was not so foul a one as mine, and they had need to bless God for it. That is all past. It is like a dream, now, which I cannot quite remember or understand. It has been more and more like a dream, every day, since you began to sit here, and to read to me. I only tell it you, as I can recollect it. Will you read to me a little more? You will not forget my mother? I forgive her, if I have any cause. I know that she forgives me, and is sorry in her heart. You will not forget her?", "pos": 1863026}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "Never, Alice! Alice!", "pos": 1864035}
{"speaker": "Alice", "text": "A moment yet. Lay your head so, dear, that as you read I may see the words in your kind face.", "pos": 1864051}
{"speaker": "Harriet Carker", "text": "I shall come, very early in the morning.", "pos": 1864852}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "our people’s credit ain’t so easy shook as that comes to, thank God", "pos": 1865938}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "whatever they do, let ’em stand by one another now, Towlinson, for there’s no telling how soon they may be divided. They have been in that house... through a funeral, a wedding, and a running-away; and let it not be said that they couldn’t agree among themselves at such a time as the present.", "pos": 1867135}
{"speaker": "Mrs Perch", "text": "Cook is an angel.", "pos": 1867518}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "far be it from him to stand in the way of that good feeling which he could wish to see foreigners is only his fun, and that him and Anne have now resolved to take one another for better for worse, and to settle in Oxford Market in the general greengrocery and herb and leech line, where your kind favours is particular requested.", "pos": 1867566}
{"speaker": "Mrs Perch", "text": "girls,", "pos": 1868126}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Oh a long time, bless you! Take your oath of that. and bring up sweet peas in the spring.", "pos": 1868839}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Suppose the wages shouldn’t be paid! Because if that is your religious feelings, Mary Daws, I don’t know where you mean to go to.", "pos": 1869987}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Your master’s in difficulties. You know that, I suppose?", "pos": 1871928}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No more than yourself!", "pos": 1872230}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "That’s your opinion, Mrs Impudence, is it?", "pos": 1872255}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Yes, Mrs Pipchin, it is. And what then, pray?", "pos": 1872379}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Why, then you may go as soon as you like. The sooner the better; and I hope I shall never see your face again. Now those that choose, can go about their business, that slut of a cook, who’ll go immediately.", "pos": 1872454}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "That, she certainly will! I wish you good day, Mrs Pipchin, and sincerely wish I could compliment you on the sweetness of your appearance!", "pos": 1873184}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Get along with you,", "pos": 1873338}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "Hear, hear!", "pos": 1874120}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "Go one, go all!", "pos": 1874272}
{"speaker": "Cook", "text": "it’s right, and only hopes it’s not done as a compliment to her, but from a sense of duty.", "pos": 1874391}
{"speaker": "Mr Towlinson", "text": "from a sense of duty; I don’t think it over-respectable to remain in a house where Sales and such-like are carrying forwards.", "pos": 1874504}
{"speaker": "housemaid", "text": "I’m sure of it; a strange man, in a carpet cap, offered, this very morning, to kiss her on the stairs.", "pos": 1874723}
{"speaker": "Mrs Perch", "text": "For what,", "pos": 1875269}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "How is my brother, Mrs Pipchin? I don’t know any more than the deuce,", "pos": 1880535}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "But good gracious me! How long is this to last! If my brother will not make an effort, Mrs Pipchin, what is to become of him? I am sure I should have thought he had seen enough of the consequences of not making an effort, by this time, to be warned against that fatal error.", "pos": 1880991}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Hoity toity!", "pos": 1881295}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "My brother,", "pos": 1881523}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Paul, I may be very foolish, and I have no doubt I am, but I cannot understand how your affairs can have got into this state, he should actually fly at me, and request that I will come to see him no more until he asks me!", "pos": 1882090}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Ah! It’s a pity he hadn’t a little more to do with mines. They’d have tried his temper for him.", "pos": 1882332}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "And what, is it to end in? That’s what I want to know. What does my brother mean to do? He must do something. It’s of no use remaining shut up in his own rooms. Business won’t come to him. No. He must go to it. Then why don’t he go? He knows where to go, I suppose, having been a man of business all his life. Very good. Then why not go there? Besides, who ever heard of such obstinacy as his staying shut up here through all these dreadful disagreeables? It’s not as if there was no place for him to go to. Of course he could have come to our house. He knows he is at home there, I suppose? Mr Chick has perfectly bored about it, and I said with my own lips, ‘Why surely, Paul, you don’t imagine that because your affairs have got into this state, you are the less at home to such near relatives as ourselves? You don’t imagine that we are like the rest of the world?’ But no; here he stays all through, and here he is. Why, good gracious me, suppose the house was to be let! What would he do then? He couldn’t remain here then. If he attempted to do so, there would be an ejectment, an action for Doe, and all sorts of things; and then he must go. Then why not go at first instead of at last? And that brings me back to what I said just now, and I naturally ask what is to be the end of it?", "pos": 1882450}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "I know what’s to be the end of it, as far as I am concerned, and that’s enough for me. I’m going to take myself off in a jiffy.", "pos": 1883970}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "In a which, Mrs Pipchin,", "pos": 1884123}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "In a jiffy,", "pos": 1884166}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Ah, well! really I can’t blame you, Mrs Pipchin,", "pos": 1884209}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "It would be pretty much the same to me, if you could. At any rate I’m going. I can’t stop here. I should be dead in a week. I had to cook my own pork chop yesterday, and I’m not used to it. My constitution will be giving way next. Besides, I had a very fair connexion at Brighton when I came here—little Pankey’s folks alone were worth a good eighty pounds a-year to me—and I can’t afford to throw it away. I’ve written to my niece, and she expects me by this time.", "pos": 1884292}
{"speaker": "Mrs Chick", "text": "Have you spoken to my brother?", "pos": 1884792}
{"speaker": "Mrs Pipchin", "text": "Oh, yes, it’s very easy to say speak to him. How is it done? I called out to him yesterday, that I was no use here, and that he had better let me send for Mrs Richards. He grunted something or other that meant yes, and I sent. Grunt indeed! If he had been Mr Pipchin, he’d have had some reason to grunt. Yah! I’ve no patience with it!", "pos": 1884844}
{"speaker": "Mr Toodle", "text": "I tell you what, Polly, me dear, being now an ingine-driver, and well to do in the world, I shouldn’t allow of your coming here, to be made dull-like, if it warn’t for favours past. But favours past, Polly, is never to be forgot. To them which is in adversity, besides, your face is a cord’l. So let’s have another kiss on it, my dear. You wish no better than to do a right act, I know; and my views is, that it’s right and dutiful to do this. Good-night, Polly!", "pos": 1885758}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Oh, Polly, when I looked in to have a little lesson with the children just now, I got the message that you left for me; and as soon as I could recover my spirits at all, I came on after you. Is there no one here but you?", "pos": 1888005}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Ah! not a soul,", "pos": 1888245}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Have you seen him?", "pos": 1888275}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "Bless you, no; he has not been seen this many a day. They tell me he never leaves his room.", "pos": 1888315}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Is he said to be ill?", "pos": 1888426}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "No, Ma’am, not that I know of, except in his mind. He must be very bad there, poor gentleman!", "pos": 1888469}
{"speaker": "Major Bagstock", "text": "Damme, Sir, the woman’s a born idiot!", "pos": 1890983}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let him remember it in that room, years to come!", "pos": 1891078}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Let him remember it in that room, years to come! The rain that falls upon the roof, the wind that mourns outside the door, may have foreknowledge in their melancholy sound. Let him remember it in that room, years to come!", "pos": 1891206}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Papa! Papa! Speak to me, dear Papa!", "pos": 1891632}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hush! what?", "pos": 1901276}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Papa! Dearest Papa! Pardon me, forgive me! I have come back to ask forgiveness on my knees. I never can be happy more, without it! Dear Papa, oh don’t look strangely on me! I never meant to leave you. I never thought of it, before or afterwards. I was frightened when I went away, and could not think. Papa, dear, I am changed. I am penitent. I know my fault. I know my duty better now. Papa, don’t cast me off, or I shall die! Papa, love, I am a mother. I have a child who will soon call Walter by the name by which I call you. When it was born, and when I knew how much I loved it, I knew what I had done in leaving you. Forgive me, dear Papa! oh say God bless me, and my little child! My little child was born at sea, Papa I prayed to God (and so did Walter for me) to spare me, that I might come home. The moment I could land, I came back to you. Never let us be parted any more, Papa. Never let us be parted any more! You will come home with me, Papa, and see my baby. A boy, Papa. His name is Paul. I think—I hope—he’s like— Dear Papa, for the sake of my child, for the sake of the name we have given him, for my sake, pardon Walter. He is so kind and tender to me. I am so happy with him. It was not his fault that we were married. It was mine. I loved him so much. He is the darling of my heart, Papa I would die for him. He will love and honour you as I will. We will teach our little child to love and honour you; and we will tell him, when he can understand, that you had a son of that name once, and that he died, and you were very sorry; but that he is gone to Heaven, where we all hope to see him when our time for resting comes. Kiss me, Papa, as a promise that you will be reconciled to Walter—to my dearest husband—to the father of the little child who taught me to come back, Papa Who taught me to come back!", "pos": 1902645}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Oh my God, forgive me, for I need it very much!", "pos": 1905454}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "And so Dombey and Son, as I observed upon a certain sad occasion, is indeed a daughter, Polly, after all. is indeed a daughter, Polly, after all.", "pos": 1906659}
{"speaker": "Polly Toodle", "text": "And a good one!", "pos": 1906820}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "You are right, and it’s a credit to you, Polly, that you were always her friend when she was a little child. You were her friend long before I was, Polly, and you’re a good creature. Robin! Robin. I have just observed to your mother, as you may have heard, that she is a good creature.", "pos": 1906855}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "And so she is, Miss,", "pos": 1907439}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Very well, Robin. I am glad to hear you say so. Now, Robin, as I am going to give you a trial, at your urgent request, as my domestic, with a view to your restoration to respectability, I will take this impressive occasion of remarking that I hope you will never forget that you have, and have always had, a good mother, and that you will endeavour so to conduct yourself as to be a comfort to her.", "pos": 1907500}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Upon my soul I will, Miss. I have come through a good deal, and my intentions is now as straightfor’ard, Miss, as a cove’s—", "pos": 1907918}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I must get you to break yourself of that word, Robin, if you please,", "pos": 1908068}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "If you please, Miss, as a chap’s—", "pos": 1908170}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Thankee, Robin, no. I should prefer individual.", "pos": 1908206}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "As a indiwiddle’s—,", "pos": 1908277}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Much better, infinitely more expressive!", "pos": 1908317}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "—can be. If I hadn’t been and got made a Grinder on, Miss and Mother, which was a most unfortunate circumstance for a young co—indiwiddle—", "pos": 1908395}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Very good indeed,", "pos": 1908551}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "—and if I hadn’t been led away by birds, and then fallen into a bad service. I hope I might have done better. But it’s never too late for a—", "pos": 1908603}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "Indi—", "pos": 1908766}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "—widdle, to mend; and I hope to mend, Miss, with your kind trial; and wishing, Mother, my love to father, and brothers and sisters, and saying of it.", "pos": 1908794}
{"speaker": "Miss Tox", "text": "I am very glad indeed to hear it. Will you take a little bread and butter, and a cup of tea, before we go, Robin?", "pos": 1908966}
{"speaker": "Rob the Grinder", "text": "Thankee, Miss,", "pos": 1909103}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Gentlemen, we will resume our studies on the twenty-fifth of next month. Gentlemen, when our friend Cincinnatus retired to his farm, he did not present to the senate any Roman who he sought to nominate as his successor. But there is a Roman here, adolescents imprimis gravis et doctus, gentlemen, whom I, a retiring Cincinnatus, wish to present to my little senate, as their future Dictator. Gentlemen, we will resume our studies on the twenty-fifth of next month, under the auspices of Mr Feeder, B.A.", "pos": 1912154}
{"speaker": "Mr Tozer", "text": "MR AND MRS TOOTS!", "pos": 1915013}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Mrs Blimber, allow me to present my wife. And as you’ve known me for a long time, you know, let me assure you that she is one of the most remarkable women that ever lived.", "pos": 1915182}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "My dear!", "pos": 1915494}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Upon my word and honour she is, I—I assure you, Mrs Blimber, she’s a most extraordinary woman. Well, old Buck! Well! Here we are! Taken in and done for. Eh? Feeder, I give you joy. If you’re as—as—as perfectly blissful in a matrimonial life, as I am myself, you’ll have nothing to desire. I don’t forget my old friends, you see. I ask em to my wedding, Toots. Feeder, the fact is, that there were several circumstances which prevented me from communicating with you until after my marriage had been solemnised. In the first place, I had made a perfect brute of myself to you, on the subject of Miss Dombey; and I felt that if you were asked to any wedding of mine, you would naturally expect that it was with Miss Dombey, which involved explanations, that upon my word and honour, at that crisis, would have knocked me completely over. In the second place, our wedding was strictly private; there being nobody present but one friend of myself and Mrs Toots’s, who is a Captain in—I don’t exactly know in what, but it’s of no consequence. I hope, Feeder, that in writing a statement of what had occurred before Mrs Toots and myself went abroad upon our foreign tour, I fully discharged the offices of friendship.", "pos": 1915529}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Toots, my boy. I was joking.", "pos": 1917328}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "And now, Feeder. I should be glad to know what you think of my union.", "pos": 1917396}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Capital!", "pos": 1917485}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "You think it’s capital, do you, Feeder? Then how capital must it be to Me! For you can never know what an extraordinary woman that is. You see, what I wanted in a wife was—in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I—I had not, particularly.", "pos": 1917516}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "Oh, yes, you had, Toots!", "pos": 1917948}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "No, Feeder, I had not. Why should I disguise it? I had not. I knew that sense was There, in perfect heaps. I had no relation to object or be offended, on the score of station; for I had no relation. I have never had anybody belonging to me but my guardian, and him, Feeder, I have always considered as a Pirate and a Corsair. Therefore, you know it was not likely, that I should take his opinion.", "pos": 1917994}
{"speaker": "Mr Feeder", "text": "No,", "pos": 1918469}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Accordingly. I acted on my own. Bright was the day on which I did so! Feeder! Nobody but myself can tell what the capacity of that woman’s mind is. If ever the Rights of Women, and all that kind of thing, are properly attended to, it will be through her powerful intellect—Susan, my dear! pray do not exert yourself!", "pos": 1918491}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "My dear. I was only talking.", "pos": 1918883}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "But, my love, pray do not exert yourself. You really must be careful. Do not, my dear Susan, exert yourself. She’s so easily excited, and then she forgets the medical man altogether.", "pos": 1918932}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "My dear Susan, don’t exert yourself! I really, in this house, where whatever was done to me in the way of—of any mental confusion sometimes—which is of no consequence and I impute to nobody—I was always treated like one of Doctor Blimber’s family, and had a desk to myself for a considerable period—can—not—allow—my friend Feeder to be—", "pos": 1920368}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "married.", "pos": 1920948}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "It may not be inappropriate to the occasion, or altogether uninteresting, to observe that my wife is a most extraordinary woman, and would do this much better than myself—allow my friend Feeder to be married—especially to—", "pos": 1920959}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "to Miss Blimber.", "pos": 1921243}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "To Mrs Feeder, my love! ‘whom God hath joined,’ you know, ‘let no man’—don’t you know? I cannot allow my friend Feeder to be married—especially to Mrs Feeder—without proposing their—their—Toasts; and may, may the torch of Hymen be the beacon of joy, and may the flowers we have this day strewed in their path, be the—the banishers of—of gloom!", "pos": 1921262}
{"speaker": "Doctor Blimber", "text": "Very good, Toots! Very well said, indeed, Toots!", "pos": 1921831}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "My dear Susan, fright is worse than exertion. Pray be calm!", "pos": 1922933}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Who is it from?", "pos": 1923012}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Why, my love, it’s from Captain Gills. Do not excite yourself. Walters and Miss Dombey are expected home!", "pos": 1923047}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "My dear, don’t try to deceive me, for it’s no use, they’re come home—I see it plainly in your face!", "pos": 1923172}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "She’s a most extraordinary woman! You’re perfectly right, my love, they have come home. Miss Dombey has seen her father, and they are reconciled!", "pos": 1923342}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "Reconciled!", "pos": 1923537}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "My dear, pray do not exert yourself. Do remember the medical man! Captain Gills says—at least he don’t say, but I imagine, from what I can make out, he means—that Miss Dombey has brought her unfortunate father away from his old house, to one where she and Walters are living; that he is lying very ill there—supposed to be dying; and that she attends upon him night and day. My dearest Susan, do, do, if you possibly can, remember the medical man! If you can’t, it’s of no consequence—but do endeavour to!", "pos": 1923588}
{"speaker": "Mrs MacStinger", "text": "Well, Cap’en Cuttle! This is indeed a meeting! I bear no malice now, Cap’en Cuttle—you needn’t fear that I’m a going to cast any reflections. I hope to go to the altar in another spirit. My “usband, Cap’en Cuttle! Cap’en Cuttle, if you would wish to heal up past animosities, and to see the last of your friend, my “usband, as a single person, we should be “appy of your company to chapel. Here is a lady here, my bridesmaid, that will be glad of your protection, Cap’en Cuttle.", "pos": 1927767}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "What cheer, my lad, what cheer?", "pos": 1931702}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "D——d bad,", "pos": 1931878}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Jack Bunsby, do you do this here, of your own free will?", "pos": 1931890}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "No.", "pos": 1931993}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Why do you do it, then, my lad? Why not sheer off?", "pos": 1931999}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Eh?", "pos": 1932234}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Sheer off,", "pos": 1932290}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "Where’s the good? She’d capter me agen.", "pos": 1932321}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Try! Cheer up! Come! Now’s your time. Sheer off, Jack Bunsby!", "pos": 1932392}
{"speaker": "Bunsby", "text": "It all began in that there chest o’ yourn. Why did I ever conwoy her into port that night?", "pos": 1932564}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "My lad. I thought as you had come over her; not as she had come over you. A man as has got such opinions as you have! Come! now’s your time! Sheer off! I’ll cover your retreat. The time’s a flying. Bunsby! It’s for liberty. Will you once? Bunsby! will you twice? Bunsby! it’s for liberty; will you three times? Now or never!", "pos": 1932657}
{"speaker": "Susan Nipper", "text": "And is your Pa very ill, my darling dear Miss Floy?", "pos": 1937677}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "He is very, very ill. But, Susan, dear, you must not speak to me as you used to speak. And what’s this? Your old dress, dear? Your old cap, curls, and all?", "pos": 1937744}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "My dear Miss Dombey. I’ll explain. She’s the most extraordinary woman. There are not many to equal her! She has always said—she said before we were married, and has said to this day—that whenever you came home, she’d come to you in no dress but the dress she used to serve you in, for fear she might seem strange to you, and you might like her less. I admire the dress myself, of all things. I adore her in it! My dear Miss Dombey, she’ll be your maid again, your nurse, all that she ever was, and more. There’s no change in her. But, Susan, my dear, all I ask is, that you’ll remember the medical man, and not exert yourself too much!", "pos": 1938072}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Where is Florence?", "pos": 1939646}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I am here, Papa, I am here.", "pos": 1939667}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "I don’t know her! We have been parted so long, that I don’t know her!", "pos": 1939697}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes, dear Papa;", "pos": 1941716}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "very much.", "pos": 1941782}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "Go and walk, my dearest, in the sweet air. Go to your good husband!", "pos": 1942823}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "My dear, there is someone downstairs who wishes to speak to you. No, no, my love! I have seen the gentleman myself, and spoken with him. Nothing has happened. Will you come?", "pos": 1944121}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "I could have wished, I am sure, to have had an earlier opportunity of offering my congratulations; but, in point of fact, so many painful occurrences have happened, treading, as a man may say, on one another’s heels, that I have been in a devil of a state myself, and perfectly unfit for every description of society. The only description of society I have kept, has been my own; and it certainly is anything but flattering to a man’s good opinion of his own sources, to know that, in point of fact, he has the capacity of boring himself to a perfectly unlimited extent. I have been mentioning to my friend Mr Gay, if I may be allowed to have the honour of calling him so, that I am rejoiced to hear that my friend Dombey is very decidedly mending. I trust my friend Dombey will not allow his mind to be too much preyed upon, by any mere loss of fortune. I cannot say that I have ever experienced any very great loss of fortune myself: never having had, in point of fact, any great amount of fortune to lose. But as much as I could lose, I have lost; and I don’t find that I particularly care about it. I know my friend Dombey to be a devilish honourable man; and it’s calculated to console my friend Dombey very much, to know, that this is the universal sentiment. Even Tommy Screwzer,—a man of an extremely bilious habit, with whom my friend Gay is probably acquainted—cannot say a syllable in disputation of the fact. The fact is, that my friend Gay and myself have been discussing the propriety of entreating a favour at your hands; and that I have the consent of my friend Gay—who has met me in an exceedingly kind and open manner, for which I am very much indebted to him—to solicit it. I am sensible that so amiable a lady as the lovely and accomplished daughter of my friend Dombey will not require much urging; but I am happy to know, that I am supported by my friend Gay’s influence and approval. As in my parliamentary time, when a man had a motion to make of any sort—which happened seldom in those days, for we were kept very tight in hand, the leaders on both sides being regular Martinets, which was a devilish good thing for the rank and file, like myself, and prevented our exposing ourselves continually, as a great many of us had a feverish anxiety to do—as, in my parliamentary time, I was about to say, when a man had leave to let off any little private popgun, it was always considered a great point for him to say that he had the happiness of believing that his sentiments were not without an echo in the breast of Mr Pitt; the pilot, in point of fact, who had weathered the storm. Upon which, a devilish large number of fellows immediately cheered, and put him in spirits. Though the fact is, that these fellows, being under orders to cheer most excessively whenever Mr Pitt’s name was mentioned, became so proficient that it always woke ’em. And they were so entirely innocent of what was going on, otherwise, that it used to be commonly said by Conversation Brown—four-bottle man at the Treasury Board, with whom the father of my friend Gay was probably acquainted, for it was before my friend Gay’s time—that if a man had risen in his place, and said that he regretted to inform the house that there was an Honourable Member in the last stage of convulsions in the Lobby, and that the Honourable Member’s name was Pitt, the approbation would have been vociferous.", "pos": 1944982}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "My love, there is nothing the matter.", "pos": 1949061}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "There is nothing the matter, upon my honour, and I am deeply distressed at being the means of causing you a moment’s uneasiness. I beg to assure you that there is nothing the matter. The favour that I have to ask is, simply—but it really does seem so exceedingly singular, that I should be in the last degree obliged to my friend Gay if he would have the goodness to break the—in point of fact, the ice,", "pos": 1949116}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "My dearest, it is no more than this. That you will ride to London with this gentleman, whom you know.", "pos": 1949665}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "And my friend Gay, also—I beg your pardon!", "pos": 1949769}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "—And with me—and make a visit somewhere.", "pos": 1949841}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "To whom?", "pos": 1949884}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "If I might entreat, that you would not press for an answer to that question, I would venture to take the liberty of making the request.", "pos": 1949942}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Do you know, Walter?", "pos": 1950102}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1950125}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "And think it right?", "pos": 1950132}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "Yes. Only because I am sure that you would too. Though there may be reasons I very well understand, which make it better that nothing more should be said beforehand.", "pos": 1950154}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "If Papa is still asleep, or can spare me if he is awake, I will go immediately,", "pos": 1950322}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "I will leave, a card for my friend Dombey, sincerely trusting that he will pick up health and strength with every returning hour. And I hope my friend Dombey will do me the favour to consider me a man who has a devilish warm admiration of his character, as, in point of fact, a British merchant and a devilish upright gentleman. My place in the country is in a most confounded state of dilapidation, but if my friend Dombey should require a change of air, and would take up his quarters there, he would find it a remarkably healthy spot—as it need be, for it’s amazingly dull. If my friend Dombey suffers from bodily weakness, and would allow me to recommend what has frequently done myself good, as a man who has been extremely queer at times, and who lived pretty freely in the days when men lived very freely, I should say, let it be in point of fact the yolk of an egg, beat up with sugar and nutmeg, in a glass of sherry, and taken in the morning with a slice of dry toast. Jackson, who kept the boxing-rooms in Bond Street—man of very superior qualifications, with whose reputation my friend Gay is no doubt acquainted—used to mention that in training for the ring they substituted rum for sherry. I should recommend sherry in this case, on account of my friend Dombey being in an invalided condition; which might occasion rum to fly—in point of fact to his head—and throw him into a devil of a state.", "pos": 1950895}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Walter, what is this? Who is here?", "pos": 1953158}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "Are you not coming, Walter?", "pos": 1953404}
{"speaker": "Walter", "text": "No, I will remain here. Don’t tremble there is nothing to fear, dearest Florence.", "pos": 1953434}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "I know that, Walter, with you so near. I am sure of that, but—", "pos": 1953518}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Great Heaven! what is this?", "pos": 1954422}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No, no! Mama! Oh, Mama, Mama! why do we meet like this? Why were you ever kind to me when there was no one else, that we should meet like this? I dare not think of that. I am come from Papa’s sick bed. We are never asunder now; we never shall be If you would have me ask his pardon, I will do it, Mama. I am almost sure he will grant it now, if I ask him. May Heaven grant it to you, too, and comfort you! Walter—I am married to him, and we have a son, is at the door, and has brought me here. I will tell him that you are repentant; that you are changed, and he will speak to Papa with me, I know. Is there anything but this that I can do?", "pos": 1954464}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "The stain upon your name, upon your husband’s, on your child’s. Will that ever be forgiven, Florence?", "pos": 1955976}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Will it ever be, Mama? It is! Freely, freely, both by Walter and by me. If that is any consolation to you, there is nothing that you may believe more certainly. You do not—you do not, speak of Papa; but I am sure you wish that I should ask him for his forgiveness. I am sure you do. I will! I will bring it you, if you will let me; and then, perhaps, we may take leave of each other, more like what we used to be to one another. I have not, I have not shrunk back from you, Mama, because I fear you, or because I dread to be disgraced by you. I only wish to do my duty to Papa. I am very dear to him, and he is very dear to me. But I never can forget that you were very good to me. Oh, pray to Heaven, pray to Heaven, Mama, to forgive you all this sin and shame, and to forgive me if I cannot help doing this (if it is wrong), when I remember what you used to be!", "pos": 1956080}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Florence! My better angel! Before I am mad again, before my stubbornness comes back and strikes me dumb, believe me, upon my soul I am innocent! Guilty of much! Guilty of that which sets a waste between us evermore. Guilty of what must separate me, through the whole remainder of my life, from purity and innocence—from you, of all the earth. Guilty of a blind and passionate resentment, of which I do not, cannot, will not, even now, repent; but not guilty with that dead man. Before God! Florence! purest and best of natures,—whom I love—who might have changed me long ago, and did for a time work some change even in the woman that I am,—believe me, I am innocent of that; and once more, on my desolate heart, let me lay this dear head, for the last time! I trust, that my lovely and accomplished relative will excuse my having, by a little stratagem, effected this meeting. I cannot say that I was, at first, wholly incredulous as to the possibility of my lovely and accomplished relative having, very unfortunately, committed herself with the deceased person with white teeth; because in point of fact, one does see, in this world—which is remarkable for devilish strange arrangements, and for being decidedly the most unintelligible thing within a man’s experience—very odd conjunctions of that sort. But as I mentioned to my friend Dombey, I could not admit the criminality of my lovely and accomplished relative until it was perfectly established. And feeling, when the deceased person was, in point of fact, destroyed in a devilish horrible manner, that her position was a very painful one—and feeling besides that our family had been a little to blame in not paying more attention to her, and that we are a careless family—and also that my aunt, though a devilish lively woman, had perhaps not been the very best of mothers—I took the liberty of seeking her in France, and offering her such protection as a man very much out at elbows could offer. Upon which occasion, my lovely and accomplished relative did me the honour to express that she believed I was, in my way, a devilish good sort of fellow; and that therefore she put herself under my protection. Which in point of fact I understood to be a kind thing on the part of my lovely and accomplished relative, as I am getting extremely shaky, and have derived great comfort from her solicitude.", "pos": 1957203}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "My lovely and accomplished relative, will excuse me, if, for her satisfaction, and my own, and that of my friend Dombey, whose lovely and accomplished daughter we so much admire, I complete the thread of my observations. She will remember that, from the first, she and I never alluded to the subject of her elopement. My impression, certainly, has always been, that there was a mystery in the affair which she could explain if so inclined. But my lovely and accomplished relative being a devilish resolute woman, I knew that she was not, in point of fact, to be trifled with, and therefore did not involve myself in any discussions. But, observing lately, that her accessible point did appear to be a very strong description of tenderness for the daughter of my friend Dombey, it occurred to me that if I could bring about a meeting, unexpected on both sides, it might lead to beneficial results. Therefore, we being in London, in the present private way, before going to the South of Italy, there to establish ourselves, in point of fact, until we go to our long homes, which is a devilish disagreeable reflection for a man, I applied myself to the discovery of the residence of my friend Gay—handsome man of an uncommonly frank disposition, who is probably known to my lovely and accomplished relative—and had the happiness of bringing his amiable wife to the present place. And now. I do conjure my relative, not to stop half way, but to set right, as far as she can, whatever she has done wrong—not for the honour of her family, not for her own fame, not for any of those considerations which unfortunate circumstances have induced her to regard as hollow, and in point of fact, as approaching to humbug—but because it is wrong, and not right.", "pos": 1960229}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "I debated with myself a long time, whether to write this at all, in case of dying suddenly or by accident, and feeling the want of it upon me. I have deliberated, ever since, when and how to destroy it. Take it, Florence. The truth is written in it.", "pos": 1962397}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Is it for Papa?", "pos": 1962676}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "It is for whom you will. It is given to you, and is obtained by you. He never could have had it otherwise.", "pos": 1962710}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Mama, he has lost his fortune; he has been at the point of death; he may not recover, even now. Is there any word that I shall say to him from you?", "pos": 1962885}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Did you tell me, that you were very dear to him?", "pos": 1963052}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Yes!", "pos": 1963118}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Tell him I am sorry that we ever met.", "pos": 1963162}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "No more?", "pos": 1963202}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Tell him, if he asks, that I do not repent of what I have done—not yet—for if it were to do again to-morrow, I should do it. But if he is a changed man— —But that being a changed man, he knows, now, it would never be. Tell him I wish it never had been.", "pos": 1963242}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "May I say, that you grieved to hear of the afflictions he has suffered?", "pos": 1963590}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Not, if they have taught him that his daughter is very dear to him. He will not grieve for them himself, one day, if they have brought that lesson, Florence.", "pos": 1963681}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "You wish well to him, and would have him happy. I am sure you would! Oh! let me be able, if I have the occasion at some future time, to say so?", "pos": 1963856}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Tell him that if, in his own present, he can find any reason to compassionate my past, I sent word that I asked him to do so. Tell him that if, in his own present, he can find a reason to think less bitterly of me, I asked him to do so. Tell him, that, dead as we are to one another, never more to meet on this side of eternity, he knows there is one feeling in common between us now, that there never was before. I trust myself to that, for his better thoughts of me, and mine of him. When he loves his Florence most, he will hate me least. When he is most proud and happy in her and her children, he will be most repentant of his own part in the dark vision of our married life. At that time, I will be repentant too—let him know it then—and think that when I thought so much of all the causes that had made me what I was, I needed to have allowed more for the causes that had made him what he was. I will try, then, to forgive him his share of blame. Let him try to forgive me mine!", "pos": 1964242}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "Oh Mama! How it lightens my heart, even in such a strange meeting and parting, to hear this!", "pos": 1965314}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Strange words in my own ears, and foreign to the sound of my own voice! But even if I had been the wretched creature I have given him occasion to believe me, I think I could have said them still, hearing that you and he were very dear to one another. Let him, when you are dearest, ever feel that he is most forbearing in his thoughts of me—that I am most forbearing in my thoughts of him! Those are the last words I send him! Now, goodbye, my life!", "pos": 1965426}
{"speaker": "Florence", "text": "This kiss for your child! These kisses for a blessing on your head! My own dear Florence, my sweet girl, farewell! To meet again!", "pos": 1965997}
{"speaker": "Edith", "text": "Never again! Never again! When you leave me in this dark room, think that you have left me in the grave. Remember only that I was once, and that I loved you!", "pos": 1966147}
{"speaker": "Cousin Feenix", "text": "I am devilish sorry, that the lovely and accomplished daughter of my friend Dombey and amiable wife of my friend Gay, should have had her sensitive nature so very much distressed and cut up by the interview which is just concluded. But I hope and trust I have acted for the best, and that my honourable friend Dombey will find his mind relieved by the disclosures which have taken place. I exceedingly lament that my friend Dombey should have got himself, in point of fact, into the devil’s own state of conglomeration by an alliance with our family; but am strongly of opinion that if it hadn’t been for the infernal scoundrel Barker—man with white teeth—everything would have gone on pretty smoothly. In regard to my relative who does me the honour to have formed an uncommonly good opinion of myself, I can assure the amiable wife of my friend Gay, that she may rely on my being, in point of fact, a father to her. And in regard to the changes of human life, and the extraordinary manner in which we are perpetually conducting ourselves, all I can say is, with my friend Shakespeare—man who wasn’t for an age but for all time, and with whom my friend Gay is no doubt acquainted—that its like the shadow of a dream.", "pos": 1966549}
{"speaker": "Mr Dombey", "text": "This is a very rare and most delicious wine.", "pos": 1968196}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ed’ard Cuttle, my lad, if your mother could ha’ know’d as you would ever be a man o’ science, the good old creetur would ha’ been took aback in-deed!", "pos": 1972534}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Captain Gills, and Mr Sols, I am happy to inform you that Mrs Toots has had an increase to her family.", "pos": 1972829}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And it does her credit!", "pos": 1972951}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "I give you joy, Mr Toots!", "pos": 1972996}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Thank’ee. I’m very much obliged to you. I knew that you’d be glad to hear, and so I came down myself. We’re positively getting on, you know. There’s Florence, and Susan, and now here’s another little stranger.", "pos": 1973038}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "A female stranger?", "pos": 1973271}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Yes, Captain Gills,", "pos": 1973314}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Stand by! Here’s to her, and may she have ever so many more!", "pos": 1973457}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Thank’ee, Captain Gills. I echo the sentiment. If you’ll allow me, as my so doing cannot be unpleasant to anybody, under the circumstances, I think I’ll take a pipe. Of all the remarkable instances that that delightful woman has given of her excellent sense, Captain Gills and Mr Sols, I think none is more remarkable than the perfection with which she has understood my devotion to Miss Dombey. Because you know, I have never changed my sentiments towards Miss Dombey. They are the same as ever. She is the same bright vision to me, at present, that she was before I made Walters’s acquaintance. When Mrs Toots and myself first began to talk of—in short, of the tender passion, you know, Captain Gills.", "pos": 1973689}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Ay, ay, my lad, as makes us all slue round—for which you’ll overhaul the book—", "pos": 1974582}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "I shall certainly do so, Captain Gills, when we first began to mention such subjects, I explained that I was what you may call a Blighted Flower, you know. But Lord bless me, she was as entirely conscious of the state of my feelings as I was myself. There was nothing I could tell her. She was the only person who could have stood between me and the silent Tomb, and she did it, in a manner to command my everlasting admiration. She knows that there’s nobody in the world I look up to, as I do to Miss Dombey. Knows that there’s nothing on earth I wouldn’t do for Miss Dombey. She knows that I consider Miss Dombey the most beautiful, the most amiable, the most angelic of her sex. What is her observation upon that? The perfection of sense. ‘My dear, you’re right. I think so too.’", "pos": 1974683}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "And so do I!", "pos": 1975631}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "So do I,", "pos": 1975664}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Then, what an observant woman my wife is! What sagacity she possesses! What remarks she makes! It was only last night, when we were sitting in the enjoyment of connubial bliss—which, upon my word and honour, is a feeble term to express my feelings in the society of my wife—that she said how remarkable it was to consider the present position of our friend Walters. ‘Here,’ observes my wife, ‘he is, released from sea-going, after that first long voyage with his young bride’—as you know he was, Mr Sols.", "pos": 1975826}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Quite true,", "pos": 1976333}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "‘Here he is,’ says my wife, ‘released from that, immediately; appointed by the same establishment to a post of great trust and confidence at home; showing himself again worthy; mounting up the ladder with the greatest expedition; beloved by everybody; assisted by his uncle at the very best possible time of his fortunes’—which I think is the case, Mr Sols? My wife is always correct.", "pos": 1976398}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "Why yes, yes—some of our lost ships, freighted with gold, have come home, truly. Small craft, Mr Toots, but serviceable to my boy!", "pos": 1976784}
{"speaker": "Mr Toots", "text": "Exactly so. You’ll never find my wife wrong. ‘Here he is,’ says that most remarkable woman, ‘so situated,—and what follows? What follows?’ observed Mrs Toots. Now pray remark, Captain Gills, and Mr Sols, the depth of my wife’s penetration. ‘Why that, under the very eye of Mr Dombey, there is a foundation going on, upon which a—an Edifice;’ that was Mrs Toots’s word, is gradually rising, perhaps to equal, perhaps excel, that of which he was once the head, and the small beginnings of which (a common fault, but a bad one, Mrs Toots said) escaped his memory. Thus,’ said my wife, ‘from his daughter, after all, another Dombey and Son will ascend’—no ‘rise;’ that was Mrs Toots’s word—‘triumphant!’", "pos": 1976946}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Sol Gills, you man of science and my ould pardner, what did I tell Wal”r to overhaul on that there night when he first took to business? Was it this here quotation, ‘Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and when you are old you will never depart from it.’ Was it them words, Sol Gills?", "pos": 1978022}
{"speaker": "Solomon Gills", "text": "It certainly was, Ned. I remember well.", "pos": 1978319}
{"speaker": "Captain Cuttle", "text": "Then I tell you what. I’ll give you Lovely Peg right through; and stand by, both on you, for the chorus!", "pos": 1978397}
{"speaker": "Grandpa", "text": "What, grandpa! Am I so like my poor little Uncle again? Yes, Paul. But he was weak, and you are very strong.", "pos": 1979330}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Oh yes, I am very strong.", "pos": 1979443}
{"speaker": "Grandpa", "text": "And he lay on a little bed beside the sea, and you can run about.", "pos": 1979471}
{"speaker": "Paul", "text": "Dear grandpapa, why do you cry when you kiss me?", "pos": 1980333}
{"speaker": "Grandpa", "text": "Little Florence! little Florence!", "pos": 1980401}