[Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDombey and Son CHAPTER 14 34/35
From that time, whenever he thought of Doctor Blimber's, it came back as he had seen it in this last view; and it never seemed to be a real place again, but always a dream, full of eyes. This was not quite the last of Doctor Blimber's, however.
There was something else.
There was Mr Toots.
Who, unexpectedly letting down one of the coach-windows, and looking in, said, with a most egregious chuckle, 'Is Dombey there ?' and immediately put it up again, without waiting for an answer.
Nor was this quite the last of Mr Toots, even; for before the coachman could drive off, he as suddenly let down the other window, and looking in with a precisely similar chuckle, said in a precisely similar tone of voice, 'Is Dombey there ?' and disappeared precisely as before. How Florence laughed! Paul often remembered it, and laughed himself whenever he did so. But there was much, soon afterwards--next day, and after that--which Paul could only recollect confusedly.
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