THE STORY OF LITTLE DOMBEY. BY CHARLES DICKENS. LONDON: BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET. 1858. 249. W.441. THE STORY OF LITTLE DOMBEY. I. 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. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in B |
