New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-18

his very small legs encased In the se1sieesbie clio
thing described by Mrs. Chick swsm before Rich
ards eyes and made them water.
. an very sisd to see you have so much feeling
Richards, said Miss Tox
Il makes one almost hope, i, really does. said
Mrs. Chick. who prided herself on taking trust.uI
views OF human nature, :" tina, there rasy vet be
some faint spark of gratitude and right feeling left
in the world
Richards deferred to these compliments By curt.
sewing and murInurins her thanks but finding il
quite impossible 70 recover her spirits nom the dis
order into which they had been thrown by the no
age of her son IN his precocious neither garments
she gradually approached the door aud wxs heartily
renewed 10 escape BY II
S0ch temporary indications o; partial shsw as
had appeared with her. vanished with her; and the
trost set IN again. as cold and hari IS ever, Mr
Chick wss twice heard 20 hum tame a. the bottom
Of the table, but on both occasions Il was frsgs
vnent Of the Dead March ir Saul The party seem
eli to get colder and colder and TO be gradually re-
solving itself into concealed ana solid state like
the collation. round which IL wss assembled AT
length Mrs Chick looked at Miss Tox ard Miss
Tex returned the look and they both and said
It was really time 70 so Mr. Dombey receiving this
announcement with perfect eqaanllni'y they took
leave OF thst gentleman and presently departed
under the protection OF Mr.. Chick who when they
had turned their backs upon the house and lett its
master in his usual solitary state, put his hands in
his pockets threw himself back in the carrisse
snd whistled =" With hey no chevy r. all yhrcught
conveying into his face as he did So 81 EXPRESSION
Of such gloomy and terrible defiance. thar Mrs
Chick dared not protest or in any way modest him
Richards though she had ht,le Paul GU her lap
could not forget her own tirst,born She felt il
ungraseful but the influence OF the day ell even On
the Charitable Grinders, and she could hardly help
regarding his pewter badge. number one hundred
and forty, as somehow apart OF its tor,nsisy
and sternness. She spoke. too, IN the nursery, of
his blessed legs. and was again troubled by Gis
spectre in uniform.
don't know what would MT give said Polly
10 see the poor htle dear before he gets used to
en-
Why then tell YOU what, Mrs Richards
to-tcd Nipper who had been admitted TO her conf
dence see him and make your mind easy.
Mr. Dombsy wouldn't like it, said Polly
'Oh would MT he Mrs Richards = retoued Nip
per he d like it very much think. when he was
asked.
You would nj ask HIM. suppose, at all !" said
Polly
No Mrs Richards quite contrary. returned
Susan and them two inspectors Tex and Chick
not intending TO be ON duty tomorrow. rs heard
EN- say, me and Miss Floy will go along with you
tomorrow morning, and welcome Mrs, Richards, If
YOU like, for we may as well walk there rs up and
down street, and better too
Polly rejected the idea pretty stoutly at first bat
by little and little she began TO entertain it. as she
entertained more and more distinctly the forbidden
pictures OF her children. and her own home At
length arguing that there could be great harm
in calling for a moment at the door she yielded TO
the Nipper proposition.
The matter being settled thus, little Paul began
TO cry most piteously II he had toreboding that
no good would come OF it
What's the matter with the child I" ssked
Susan
He's cold think. said Polly, walking with
him 10 and fro and hushing him
Ii was bleak autumnal afternoon indeed and
ss she walked, and hrshed, and glsncing through
the dreary windows pressed the little fellow closer
to her breast the wthered leaves came showeriug
down -