It was impossible to escape the observation of them, for he showed them whenever he spoke; and bore so wide a smile upon his countenance (a smile, however, very rarely, indeed, extending beyond his mouth), that there was something in it like the snarl of a cat.

He affected a stiff white cravat, after the example of his principal, and was always closely buttoned up and tightly dressed.

His manner towards Mr Dombey was deeply conceived and perfectly expressed.

He was familiar with him, in the very extremity of his sense of the distance between them.

'Mr Dombey, to a man in your position from a man in mine, there is no show of subservience compatible with the transaction of business between us, that I should think sufficient.