Until then, I am enough for him, perhaps, and all in all.

I have no wish that people should step in between us.

I would much rather show my sense of the obliging conduct of a deserving person like your friend.

Therefore let it be so; and your husband and myself will do well enough for the other sponsors, I daresay.' In the course of these remarks, delivered with great majesty and grandeur, Mr Dombey had truly revealed the secret feelings of his breast.

An indescribable distrust of anybody stepping in between himself and his son; a haughty dread of having any rival or partner in the boy's respect and deference; a sharp misgiving, recently acquired, that he was not infallible in his power of bending and binding human wills; as sharp a jealousy of any second check or cross; these were, at that time the master keys of his soul.