It will naturally be very painful to him to find that you are singular in your character and conduct.

It is naturally painful to us; for we can't like you, you know, Dombey, as well as we could wish.' She touched the child upon a tender point.

He had secretly become more and more solicitous from day to day, as the time of his departure drew more near, that all the house should like him.

From some hidden reason, very imperfectly understood by himself--if understood at all--he felt a gradually increasing impulse of affection, towards almost everything and everybody in the place.

He could not bear to think that they would be quite indifferent to him when he was gone.