Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens


Contents

[CHAPTER I. Dombey and Son]
[CHAPTER II. In which Timely Provision is made for an Emergency that will sometimes arise in the best-regulated Families]
[CHAPTER III. In which Mr Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is seen at the Head of the Home-Department]
[CHAPTER IV. In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures]
[CHAPTER V. Paul’s Progress and Christening]
[CHAPTER VI. Paul’s Second Deprivation]
[CHAPTER VII. A Bird’s-eye Glimpse of Miss Tox’s Dwelling-place: also of the State of Miss Tox’s Affections]
[CHAPTER VIII. Paul’s Further Progress, Growth and Character]
[CHAPTER IX. In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble]
[CHAPTER X. Containing the Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster]
[CHAPTER XI. Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene]
[CHAPTER XII. Paul’s Education]
[CHAPTER XIII. Shipping Intelligence and Office Business]
[CHAPTER XIV. Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays]
[CHAPTER XV. Amazing Artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new Pursuit for Walter Gay]
[CHAPTER XVI. What the Waves were always saying]
[CHAPTER XVII. Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Father and Daughter]
[CHAPTER XIX. Walter goes away]
[CHAPTER XX. Mr Dombey goes upon a Journey]
[CHAPTER XXI. New Faces]
[CHAPTER XXII. A Trifle of Management by Mr Carker the Manager]
[CHAPTER XXIII. Florence solitary, and the Midshipman mysterious]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Study of a Loving Heart]
[CHAPTER XXV. Strange News of Uncle Sol]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Shadows of the Past and Future]
[CHAPTER XXVII. Deeper Shadows]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. Alterations]
[CHAPTER XXIX. The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs Chick]
[CHAPTER XXX. The interval before the Marriage]
[CHAPTER XXXI. The Wedding]
[CHAPTER XXXII. The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. Contrasts]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. Another Mother and Daughter]
[CHAPTER XXXV. The Happy Pair]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. Housewarming]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. More Warnings than One]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. Miss Tox improves an Old Acquaintance]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner]
[CHAPTER XL. Domestic Relations]
[CHAPTER XLI. New Voices in the Waves]
[CHAPTER XLII. Confidential and Accidental]
[CHAPTER XLIII. The Watches of the Night]
[CHAPTER XLIV. A Separation]
[CHAPTER XLV. The Trusty Agent]
[CHAPTER XLVI. Recognizant and Reflective]
[CHAPTER XLVII. The Thunderbolt]
[CHAPTER XLVIII. The Flight of Florence]
[CHAPTER XLIX. The Midshipman makes a Discovery]
[CHAPTER L. Mr Toots’s Complaint]
[CHAPTER LI. Mr Dombey and the World]
[CHAPTER LII. Secret Intelligence]
[CHAPTER LIII. More Intelligence]
[CHAPTER LIV. The Fugitives]
[CHAPTER LV. Rob the Grinder loses his Place]
[CHAPTER LVI. Several People delighted, and the Game Chicken disgusted]
[CHAPTER LVII. Another Wedding]
[CHAPTER LVIII. After a Lapse]
[CHAPTER LIX. Retribution]
[CHAPTER LX. Chiefly Matrimonial]
[CHAPTER LXI. Relenting]
[CHAPTER LXII. Final]
[PREFACE OF 1848]
[PREFACE OF 1867]

CHAPTER I.
Dombey and Son

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.