Dombey and SonBradbury and Evans, 1848 - Всего страниц: 624 Paul Dombey is a cold, unbending, pompous merchant, and a widower with two children - Paul and Florence. His chief ambition is to perpetuate the firm-name. He dreams of passing his business on to his son. Dombey dotes on his son, and neglects and mistreats his daughter.The "son" in the title of the book is incapable of ever joining the firm. A sickly and odd child, Paul dies at the age of six. Dombey pours his resentment and anger out on his daughter, whom he pushes away despite her efforts to earn her father's love.Eventually Dombey remarries, after literally acquiring his new wife from her father in a commercial transaction. Dombey is as bad a husband as he is a father and his marriage is loveless. His new bride hates Dombey and eventually runs off with Canker, his business manager. Dombey characteristically blames Florence for this reversal, and strikes her, causing Florence to run away as well.Abandoned by everyone, Dombey loses his business and goes half insane, living in his decaying house. Dombey is eventually reconciled to his daughter, who always a doormat forgives her father........ |
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... confidence in his better half . " It's all right . " " As you appear to leave everything to her , " said Mr. Dombey , frus- trated in his intention of impressing his views still more distinctly on the husband , as the stronger character ...
... confidence in his better half . " It's all right . " " As you appear to leave everything to her , " said Mr. Dombey , frus- trated in his intention of impressing his views still more distinctly on the husband , as the stronger character ...
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... confidence , and belief , from the im- postor , and endow a stranger with it ? As his unusual emotion subsided , these misgivings gradually melted away , though so much of their shadow remained behind , that he was con- stant in his ...
... confidence , and belief , from the im- postor , and endow a stranger with it ? As his unusual emotion subsided , these misgivings gradually melted away , though so much of their shadow remained behind , that he was con- stant in his ...
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... confidence in her own powers . " 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 , " said Polly , affecting herself beyond mea- sure ; being heartily ...
... confidence in her own powers . " 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 , " said Polly , affecting herself beyond mea- sure ; being heartily ...
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... confidence and interest between them from that moment . Notwithstanding Mr. Toodle's great reliance on Polly , she was perhaps in point of artificial accomplishments very little his superior . But she was a good plain sample of a nature ...
... confidence and interest between them from that moment . Notwithstanding Mr. Toodle's great reliance on Polly , she was perhaps in point of artificial accomplishments very little his superior . But she was a good plain sample of a nature ...
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... confidence in the mute appeal of poor little Florence's mourning dress . " It's hard indeed , " thought Polly , " if he takes only to one little motherless child , when he has another , and that a girl , before his eyes . " So , Polly ...
... confidence in the mute appeal of poor little Florence's mourning dress . " It's hard indeed , " thought Polly , " if he takes only to one little motherless child , when he has another , and that a girl , before his eyes . " So , Polly ...
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Стр. 453 - Hear the magistrate or judge admonish the unnatural outcasts of society; unnatural in brutal habits, unnatural in want of decency, unnatural in losing and confounding all distinctions between good and evil; unnatural in ignorance, in vice, in recklessness, in contumacy, in mind, in looks, in everything. But follow the good clergyman or doctor, who, with his life imperilled at every breath he draws, goes down into their dens, lying within the echoes of our carriage wheels and daily tread upon the...
Стр. xviii - Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships ; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather ; winds blew for or against their enterprises ; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them : AD had no concern with anno Domini, but stood for...
Стр. xvii - DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
Стр. 70 - This celebrated Mrs. Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.
Стр. 154 - This was the beginning of his always saying in the morning that he was a great deal better, and that they were to tell his father so. How many times the golden water danced upon the wall; how many nights the dark, dark river rolled towards the sea in spite of him; Paul never counted, never sought to know.
Стр. 153 - ... was coming on, and that the sky was red and beautiful. As the reflection died away, and a gloom went creeping up the wall, he watched it deepen, deepen, deepen into night. Then he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps, and how the peaceful stars were shining overhead. His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river...
Стр. 151 - To and from the heart of this great change, all day and night, throbbing currents rushed and returned incessantly like its life's blood. Crowds of people and mountains of goods, departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in every four-and-twenty hours, produced a fermentation in the place that was always in action.
Стр. 155 - ... mother; for he could not remember whether they had told him, yes or no, the river running very fast, and confusing his mind. 'Floy, did I ever see mamma?' 'No, darling, why?' 'Did I ever see any kind face, like mamma's, looking at me when I was a baby, Floy?
Стр. 156 - I am glad to see it again. Don't go away, old nurse. Stay here!" His senses were all quickened, and he heard a name he knew. "Who was that, who said 'Walter?' " he asked, looking round. "Some one said Walter. Is he here? I should like to see him very much." Nobody replied directly; but his father soon said to Susan, "Call him back, then : let him come up...
Стр. 151 - ... formed towns within themselves, originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves, and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence. Bridges that had led to nothing, led to villas, gardens, churches, healthy public walks. The carcasses of houses, and beginnings of new thoroughfares, had started off upon the line at steam's own speed, and shot away into the country in a monster train.