Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
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by Charles Dickens
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Dickens
Dombey and Son
by
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER 1.
D
OMBEY
AND
S
ON
D
OMBEY
SAT
IN
THE
CORNER
of the darkened room in the greatarm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in alittle basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low setteeimmediately 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 himbrown while he was very new.Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though ahandsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance, tobe prepossessing. Son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in hisgeneral effect, as yet. On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brotherCare had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in goodtime—remorseless twins they are for striding through their humanforests, notching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time wouldtake delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations.Dombey, exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jingledthe heavy gold watch-chain that depended from below his trim bluecoat, whereof the buttons sparkled phosphorescently in the feeblerays of the distant fire. Son, with his little fists curled up and clenched,seemed, in his feeble way, to be squaring at existence for having comeupon him so unexpectedly.
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