New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-23
BY GREELEY & McELRATH.

ICr MAS lOXs enc mas Oeru 50 ODilEAuR as ZEN
der many little services 10 my house triting and
insignificant services perhaps, Major but not 70 be
dsparaged on that account and hope have had
the good fortune u be enabled TO sckno them
by such attention and notice as il has been in my
power to bestow hold myself indebted 10 Mss
Tox, Major added Mr. Dombey. with q slight
wave Of his hand, h" for the pleasure OF your &C.
q1aintaBce."
" Dombey," said the Major warmly DO No
Sir Joseph Bagstock can never permit that asser
ton 20 pass ubcontradicted. Your knowledge OF
old Joe, Sir, such as he is and old Joes knowledge
Of you, 8ir had It's origin ia noble fellow, 5r-in &
great creature. Sir Dombey :" said the Major,
with struggle which Il was not very dIacalt TO
parade, bis whole life being struggle sgainst all
kinds Of apopectic symptoms, we knew each
other through your boy
bsble the MAJ or designed he should be, BY this al
fusion. He looked down and sighed and the Ma
Or rOusing himself ercey again said, Ia reference
10 the state Of mind into which be felt himself IN
danger Of falling that this was weakness, and no
thing should induce him 70 submit 70 1t.
4" Oar friend had a remote connection with that
event." said the Major, and all the credit that
belongs to her, J. B. is willing to give her, Sir.
Notwithstanding which, Mssm he added, raising
his eyes from his plate and casting them across
Princess's Place, TO where Miss TOx was at that
moment visible AT her window watering flowers,
you re a schening Jade Ma am, and your ambi-
ton is a piece Of monstrous impudence. IL II only
made yourself ridiculous, Ma am" said the Major
rolling his head at the unconscious Miss TOx while
his starting eyes appeared to make leap toward
her, you might do that 10 your hearts content,
NJ am without any objection, | assure you, on the
part Of Bagstock." Here the Major laughed fright
fully up in the tips OF his ears and IN the veins OF
his head. But when Ma am said the Major,
"you compromise other people, and generous, un-
suspicious people too, as repayment Tor their
condescension you stir the blood of old Joe In his
body"
Major" said Mr.. Dombey, reddening, al hope
you do not hint at anything so absurd on the part
of Miss Tox as
" Dombey." returned the Major, Il hint at
nothing. But Joey b. has lived in the world, Sir
lived in the world with his eyes open Sir and his
ears cooked and Joe tells you, Dombey. that
there s de.vsh artful and ambitious woman
over the way
Mr.. Dombey Involuntary glanced over the way
and an angry glance he sent in that direction too
That all on such a subject that shall pass the
lips of Joseph Bagstock" said the Major, firmly
Joe is not tale bearer. but there times when
he must speak when he lcW speak !-confouud
YOUR arts, Ma am" cried the Major, again apos-
trophzing his fair neighbor, with great ire" when
the provocation is too strong to admit Of his remain
ing silent
The emotion Of this outbreak threw the Major
into paroxysm of horses coughs, which held him
for a long time. On recovering he added:
" And now Dombey, as you have invited joe
old Joe who has no other merit Sir but that he is
tough and hearty-to be your guest and guide at
Leamington, command him in any way you please
and he is wholly yours. / don't know, Sir, said
the Major, wagging his double chin with jocose
air, whst it you people see in Joe to make you
hold him in such great request, all OF you but this
| know. Sir, that il he WASH t pretty tough, and
obstinate in his refusals you Z kill him among yoa
with your invitations and so forth in double quick
time"
Mr.. Dombey in few words, expressed his sense
of the preference he received over those other dis
tinguished members Of society who were clamor
ing for the possession of Ma jor Bagstock. Butthe
Major cut him short by giving him to understand
that he followed his incinations and that they
had risen up in body and said with one accord,
j. B., Dombey is the man for you TO choose as
friend"
The Major being by this time in state Of reple
ton with essence Of savory pie oozing out at the
corners of his eyes, and devied grill and kidneys
tightening his cravat and the time moreover ap
for the departure OF the railway train to
Birmingham, by which they were 10 leave town:
the Native got him into his great coat with I'M
mense difficulty, and buttoned him up until his face
looked staring and gssping, over the top OF that
garment as il he were In barrel. The Native then
handed him separately, and with decent interval
between each supply, his wash-leather gloves, his
thick stick and his hat which latter article the
Major wore with raksh air on one side OF his
head by way of toning down his remarkable vas
age. The Native had previously packed, In all
po.sible and impossible parts Of Mr.. Dombey's
chariot, which was in waiting, an unusual quantity
of carpet bags and small portmantesus, no less
apopletic in appearance than the Major himself;
and having filed his own pockets with Settler wa
ter, East India sherry, sandwiches, shawls tele
scopes maps and newspapers, any or all OF which
+k. lac ,fuaf niraq IN
slant of the Journey he announced that everything
was ready. To complete the equipment OF this I'M
fortunate foreigner currently believed to be a
prince in his own country,) when he took his seat
in the rumble by the side of Mr. Towlinson. pile
Of the Majors cloaks and great-coats was hurled
upon him by the landlord who aimed at him from
the pavement with those great nissileslIke Titan
and so covered him up. that he proceeded, IN iv'
ing tomb, TO the railroad station
But before the carriage moved away and while
the Native was in the act OF sepulture, Miss IoX
appe airing at her window waved hly'white hand
kerchief MIR Dombey received this parting salu
tation very coldly-very coldly even for him-and
honoring her with the slightest possible inclination
OF his head leaned back ia the carriage with very
discontented look His marked behavior seemed
to afford the Major who was all politeness IN his
recognition of Miss Tox) unbounded satisfaction ;
and he sat for long time afterward leering, and
choking like an overfed Mephistophiles
DNTluE the Dustlt Vi preparation ~ 'ic al" ~
Mr. Dombey and the Major walked up and down
the platform side by side the former taciturn and
gloomy and the latter entertaining him, or enter
tanning himself with a variety OF anecdotes and
"reminiscences, in most Of which Joe Bagstock was
the principal performer. Neither of the two OBJ
served that in the course OF these walks, they al
tracted the attention OF a working man who was
standing near the engine. and who touched his hat
every time they passed for Mr.. Dombey habitually
looked over the vulgar herd not at them and the
Major was looking at the time, into the core OF one
OF his stories AT length however this man stepped
before them as they turned round, and pulling his
hat of, and keeping it off ducked his head to Mr.
Dombey.
Beg your pardon, Sir, said the man, bat
hope you re a dom pretty well, Sir
He was dressed in q canvas suit abundantiy be
smeared with coaldust and oil, and had cinders IN
bis whiskers and a smell of halfslsked ashes all
over him. He was not a badlooking fellow. nor
even what could be fairly called dirty looking
tellow, in spite of this and in short, he was Mr.
I~ldle professionally clothed.
"lxhall have the honor of stokin OF you down
Sir, nd Mr.. Toodle. BEG your pardon, Sir
hope yoN ind yourself coming round y
Mr. DosAey looked at him, in return Tor his tone
! of interest, - if man like that would make his
very eyesightsrty.
"'Scuse the Mcrty. Sir" said Toodle, seeing he
was not clearly rSaembered, but my wife Polly
as was called a Mas A. rs in your family -,
A change IN Nj po'abeys face, which seemed