When you don't know the meaning of an expression, why don't you seek for information ?' 'Mrs Pipchin told me I wasn't to ask questions,' returned Paul.
'I must beg you not to mention Mrs Pipchin to me, on any account, Dombey,' returned Miss Blimber.

'I couldn't think of allowing it.

The course of study here, is very far removed from anything of that sort.

A repetition of such allusions would make it necessary for me to request to hear, without a mistake, before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, from Verbum personale down to simillimia cygno.' 'I didn't mean, Ma'am--' began little Paul.
'I must trouble you not to tell me that you didn't mean, if you please, Dombey,' said Miss Blimber, who preserved an awful politeness in her admonitions.

'That is a line of argument I couldn't dream of permitting.' Paul felt it safest to say nothing at all, so he only looked at Miss Blimber's spectacles.