[Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDombey and Son CHAPTER 2 22/27
Her infant was a boy too.
Now, would it be possible for her to change them? Though he was soon satisfied that he had dismissed the idea as romantic and unlikely--though possible, there was no denying--he could not help pursuing it so far as to entertain within himself a picture of what his condition would be, if he should discover such an imposture when he was grown old.
Whether a man so situated would be able to pluck away the result of so many years of usage, confidence, and belief, from the impostor, and endow a stranger with it? But it was idle speculating thus.
It couldn't happen.
In a moment afterwards he determined that it could, but that such women were constantly observed, and had no opportunity given them for the accomplishment of such a design, even when they were so wicked as to entertain it.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|