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@bookcollections Apr 20, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #15/471

From the glimpses she caught of Mr Dombey at these times, sitting in the dark distance, looking out towards the infant from among the dark heavy furniture—the house had been inhabited for years by hi…

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@bookcollections Apr 5, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #14/471

Chapter 3. In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department The funeral of the deceased lady having been ‘performed’ to the entire satisfaction of the undertaker,…

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@bookcollections Mar 24, 2026, 8:42 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #13/471

Whether a man so situated would be able to pluck away the result of so many years of usage, confidence, and belief, from the impostor, and endow a stranger with it? But it was idle speculating thus.…

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@bookcollections Mar 10, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #12/471

One of my little boys is a going to learn me, when he’s old enough, and been to school himself.’ ‘Well,’ said Mr Dombey, after looking at him attentively, and with no great favour, as he stood gazing…

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@bookcollections Feb 25, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #11/471

‘My good woman,’ said Mr Dombey, turning round in his easy chair, as one piece, and not as a man with limbs and joints, ‘I understand you are poor, and wish to earn money by nursing the little boy, m…

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@bookcollections Feb 14, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #10/471

‘How do you do, Polly?’ ‘I’m pretty well, I thank you, Ma’am,’ said Polly. By way of bringing her out dexterously, Miss Tox had made the inquiry as in condescension to an old acquaintance whom she ha…

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@bookcollections Feb 10, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #9/471

Meanwhile, of course, the child is—’ ‘Going to the Devil,’ said Mr Chick, thoughtfully, ‘to be sure.’ Admonished, however, that he had committed himself, by the indignation expressed in Mrs Chick’s c…

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@bookcollections Jan 28, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #8/471

Chapter 2. In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families. I shall never cease to congratulate myself,’ said Mrs Chick,’ on having said, w…

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@bookcollections Jan 19, 2026, 7:09 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #7/471

‘Im-mense!’ ‘But his deportment, my dear Louisa!’ said Miss Tox. ‘His presence! His dignity! No portrait that I have ever seen of anyone has been half so replete with those qualities. Something so st…

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@bookcollections Jan 9, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC

[Literature] Charles Dickens: DOMBEY & SON #6/471

These and other appearances of a similar nature, had served to propagate the opinion, that Miss Tox was a lady of what is called a limited independence, which she turned to the best account. Possibly…

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