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UNIT 11. Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son…(excerpt)

cisely matched as to size, and drawn up in line, like sol

diers, looked in their cold, hard, slippery uniforms, as if

they had but one idea among them, and that a freezer.

The bookcase, glazed and locked, repudiated all familiar

ities. Mr Pitt, in bronze on the top, with no trace of his

celestial origin about him, guarded the unattainable treasure

like an enchanted Moor. A dusty urn at each high corner,

dug up from an ancient tomb, preached desolation and

decay, as from two pulpits; and the chimneyglass, re

flecting Mr Dombey and his portrait at one blow, seemed

fraught with melancholy meditations.

The stiff and stark fireirons appeared to claim a nearer

relationship than anything else there to Mr Dombey, with

his buttoned соat; his white cravat, his heavy gold watch

chain, and his creaking boots. But this was before the ar

rival of Mr and Mrs Chick, his lawful rela-tives, who soon

presented themselves.

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