I have heard it commended in private circles ever since I was--dear me--how high!' Mrs Chick's eye wandered about the bookcase near the bust of Mr Pitt, which was about ten feet from the ground.
'Perhaps I should say of Mrs Pipchin, my dear Sir,' observed Miss Tox, with an ingenuous blush, 'having been so pointedly referred to, that the encomium which has been passed upon her by your sweet sister is well merited.

Many ladies and gentleman, now grown up to be interesting members of society, have been indebted to her care.

The humble individual who addresses you was once under her charge.

I believe juvenile nobility itself is no stranger to her establishment.' 'Do I understand that this respectable matron keeps an establishment, Miss Tox ?' the Mr Dombey, condescendingly.
'Why, I really don't know,' rejoined that lady, 'whether I am justified in calling it so.

It is not a Preparatory School by any means.