[Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDombey and Son CHAPTER 2 19/27
'Polly heerd it.
She's awake, Sir.' 'I won't detain you any longer then,' returned Mr Dombey, disappointed. 'Where have you worked all your life ?' 'Mostly underground, Sir, 'till I got married.
I come to the level then. I'm a going on one of these here railroads when they comes into full play.' As he added in one of his hoarse whispers, 'We means to bring up little Biler to that line,' Mr Dombey inquired haughtily who little Biler was. 'The eldest on 'em, Sir,' said Toodle, with a smile.
'It ain't a common name.
Sermuchser that when he was took to church the gen'lm'n said, it wam't a chris'en one, and he couldn't give it.
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